Breaking Bread: Beijing Bakery offers hope to disabled orphans

Photography by Aurelian Foucault Spring Festival in China means two things: family and food. With millions of people preparing to leave Beijing for a week of festivities in their hometowns, a family of a different kind is hard at work in the border city of Langfang. This time six years ago, Grace Yang, now aged… Continue reading Breaking Bread: Beijing Bakery offers hope to disabled orphans

WTF is a hongbaozza?

Chinese New Year is approaching, and anyone lucky enough to have a Chinese auntie or five knows that this means hongbao are also on their way. To the uninitiated, hongbao are the little red packets of money that are given out to family during Spring Festival to signify good luck for the year ahead. It used to be the… Continue reading WTF is a hongbaozza?