Category: Lifestyle

A crowd fills a crowded station in Beijing

Commuters crowd a subway station at rush hour in Beijing, China. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

'Land of Big Numbers' Author Te-Ping Chen on Writing Her Way Through the Dark

The Wall Street Journal reporter talks to Asia Blog about her debut collection of short stories, which depict ordinary lives in China and of the Chinese diaspora.

May 4th by Matt Schiavenza

Fiction From Orville Schell: On the Tragic Sweep of Chinese History

Arts

Lifestyle

In this excerpt from his debut novel 'My Old Home,' Schell tells the story of a father and son whose lives are upended by modern Chinese history.

March 2nd by Matt Schiavenza

Asia In-Depth Podcast: The Wonderful World of Korean Baseball

Current Affairs

Lifestyle

With the Major League Baseball season finally set to begin, we take a close look at one of Asia's best professional leagues: the Korea Baseball Organization.

July 23rd by Matt Schiavenza

Asia In-Depth Podcast: Fatima Bhutto on the Global Rise of Asian Mass Culture

Arts

Lifestyle

The author's new book explores how K-pop, Bollywood, and Turkish Dizi have become significant cultural exports

January 23rd by Matt Schiavenza

Asia In-Depth Podcast: Why Mindfulness Matters

Lifestyle

Dan Harris and Thupten Jinpa on the recent emergence of mindfulness into the mainstream, and how mindfulness can help people cope with everything from the scourge of school shootings to political discussions in an age of divisiveness.

December 12th by Dan Washburn

How Banana Magazine Captures New York's Asian American Creative Community

Kathleen Tso and Vicki Ho, editors of Banana Magazine

Current Affairs

Lifestyle

Founders Kathleen Tso and Vicki Ho tell Asia Blog how their publication fills a much-needed gap.

May 22nd by Clara Lambert

Four Questions for Sean Manaea, Baseball's Samoan-American No-Hit Man

Sean Manaea celebrates after throwing a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox.

Lifestyle

The Oakland Athletics pitcher tells Asia Blog about his recent on-field accomplishment and discusses his upbringing in Indiana.

May 3rd by Matt Schiavenza

8 Photos From Japan's Annual Ice Sculpture Winter Wonderland

Lifestyle

Multimedia

The Sapporo Snow Festival in northernmost Hokkaido prefecture renders Japan's most famous cultural exports in beautiful works of art.

February 14th by Michelle FlorCruz

Asia Abridged Podcast: Jackie Chan on Cheating Death

In a rollicking 2013 discussion at Asia Society in New York, an animated Jackie Chan spent almost as much time out of his seat as in it. (C. Bay Milin)

Arts

Lifestyle

In this episode, we hear the legendary action star talk candidly about his most famous scene — and other stunts he says he honestly thought might kill him. Some nearly did.

October 12th by Dan Washburn