March 30, 2013 
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Rarely do we get a look at what local writers are doing, but this essay gives us some insight into that topic. Sophia Kidd writes here about several women writers, and their thoughts on Chengdu, money, and the soul.
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February 25, 2013 15 Comments
As its Literary Festival draws near, we ask a few questions of The Bookworm’s Irish owner and founder, Peter Goff.
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December 17, 2012 28 Comments
After years of speculation, Apple advances further into China with the opening of it’s first official Apple Store in Western China. Right here in Chengdu.
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November 9, 2012 22 Comments
Performance art was once big in Chengdu and across China, but a ban on performance drove the live art crowd underground. The ban was recently lifted and artists converged on Flower Town to revive the art, Tabitha reports.
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September 17, 2012 100 Comments
Although China may seem like a raging cauldron of anti-Japan hawks, the truth is that the majority of Chinese are just not that into it. Trust the Chinese to know a spectacle when they see one.
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June 27, 2012 30 Comments
Last weekend Chengdu hosted dozens of bands and thousands of patrons at the Big Love music festival. But was it all love?
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October 5, 2011 19 Comments
The historic 2011 Panda Electronic Music festival has just concluded. Here are our photos from all three days of the event which featured DJ Shadow.
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September 30, 2011 19 Comments
After a year of absence, Chengdu’s best club is back. Xiong Mao has just opened in the newly constructed Chengdu East Music Park and brings a lot of promise with it.
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September 15, 2011 18 Comments
Last Saturday I attended the Wall Lords graffiti battle in Chengdu, spending the afternoon watching incredible graffiti murals materialize in front of me. For Chengdu’s humble street art scene, this is the stuff of dreams. These are my photos.
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August 4, 2011 34 Comments
Is this the end of a China dream? There’s a lot to learn from public response to the Wenzhou train crash which recently occurred.
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