Fish from Iceland, beef and lamb from Australia, vegetables from local organic farms, carefully prepared by the most professional cooks, all wrapped in an exquisite package that allows you to cook it at home in 30 minutes for a fine dining experience with your loved ones. This is a rare picture

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Though life and work are intertwined, the relationship between the two has changed drastically in recent years. Today, with the advent of new technologies, people are able to have more freedom to chose their work and do what they love. The boundaries between passion, work, and life have also

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Xu Guangju is the co-founder of M.Y lab, which is a woodworking studio where one can be taught to make one’s own wood products. People old and young come here to spend time ranging from a day to a week working on their choice of project such as fruit plate, chair, or toy car.  Previous students

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While most people living in the rural area leave for big cities, curator Ou Ning has left his home in Beijing and moved to the Bishan village in Yi County, Huang Mountain. He resides here with his whole family,  working towards revitalizing the rural community as we know it the Bishan Project.

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With all the environment issues in China, it will be easy for architect Sherry Poon and her family to just move back to Canada. But they chose to live in Shanghai. Sherry saw that there are actually a lot of companies in China who are moving towards becoming more sustainable, but there is no

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In 1995, Zhu Ning, who was then a drummer at a rock'n'roll band in Wuhan, found it very hard to find a place to perform on stage. Gradually he dreamed of owning such a place by himself. Zhu Ning started VOX Livehouse in March of 2005, and it has been developed into one of the most important

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Many people may recognise Yu Siyuan as a singer who got his big break while performing on the talent program 'My show' that aired on Dragon TV in 2006. These days, Siyuan has set aside his singing career to start 'Fly Juice' with his partner, a new company that aims to inspire more young people to

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If you want to better understand the work of Chinese fashion designers, Chinese multi-brand designer store, ‘Dong Liang’ is a must-see. Having started in Beijing in 2009 and opened another store later in Shanghai, Dong Liang is one of the biggest retail outlets for local fashion designers in

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It was more than 20 years ago that the skateboarding culture first came to China. At that time, few people knew how to skate. It was very difficult to even buy a skateboard, let alone purchase any textbook or watch any video to learn skate tricks. Nowadays, skateboarding is a sub-culture that is

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Compared with European and U.S. markets, the graffiti art in Asia is way behind. But still Singaporean designer Jackson Aw feels it fascinating. Mighty Jaxx, the creative collective he founded in 2012, has been promoting street art in Asia since then. They work with renowned artists around the

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Nicole Teng, founder of the upcycling design brand, ‘Brut Cake’, had many years of experience in advertising. However, she felt that her life should not only be about this industry, so she left Taiwan to go to Germany to study painting. Following this, she was relocated to Shanghai for work

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In the digital era, the physical act of writing is diminishing. Yang Jun went back and asked himself - why do we need notebooks? What role do notebooks play in our life? How do we use them? He went back and discovered a broad approach. He thus creates amazing notebooks. Till today, Yang Jun’s

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Most people think of fashion as something that is either very fast, or very expensive. Ritchie Chan wants to put a new twist on the culture of fashion and design, and also try to extend its definition. He opened an unreasonable store called Triple Major; it’s not only a retail store, but also a

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We visited the studio of Shanghai-based independent designer Zhang Zhoujie. As one of the representatives among young Chinese independent designers, Zhoujie has been exploring the way to digitally fabricate objects. He applies a digital approach to the traditional industrial production. After

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  The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw The Unreasonable is an ongoing content series about those who are creating progress

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