Chinese

Beyond Good Intentions

What happens when helping disabled people in China becomes more about charity than equality? Every year, China marks National Disability Assistance Day on the third Sunday of May with slogans...

A Shaman’s survival in modern China

In a China racing toward the future one reluctant young shaman fights to honour the ancient spirits that refuse to let him go...

The rescue that never came

A harrowing investigation into how young people are trafficked into scam compoundsn in Southeast Asia, and the journey of one Chinese family seeking justice for their son The plane taxied...

They Danced on the Ruins

Inside Taiwan’s underground rave scene, where music, mysticism, and fleeting trust pulse through the margins of the city At a crumbling temple on a mountain slope in Taoyuan, music begins...

Sold as Wives, Trapped as Strangers

A Singaporean journalist traces how Southeast Asian women are trafficked into marriage in China—and what it takes to escape When Chan boarded the plane to China, she had no idea...

Being a trans teenager in Taiwan

A Taiwanese reporter interviews transgender teenagers about the challenges they face from the medical system Following the legalisation of gay marriage in 2019 – the first Asian country to do...

Sign in

Join our movement

Become a member now to access exclusive content and get each new issue straight to your door.

Open-Minded

Register to receive:  

Language Curious

Everything in Open-Minded plus:

Polyglot

Everything in Language Curious plus:

Founding Member

Everything in Polyglot plus:

+ The opportunity to support journalism, writing and translation around the world (let us know if you want to give more!)