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…

Beijing now has a KFC that scans your face and tells you what to order

The annus horribilis that was 2016 is finally over. As we enter the brave new world that is 2017, the kind folks at KFC have found a way to let us do less thinking and more handing over of our personal data to multinational companies. Setting a weird tone for the year to come, Chinese internet giant…

Shanghai: China’s Western face on its eastern coast

For newcomers to China, even the most basic tasks can be challenge. From getting a taxi to ordering lunch, barriers of the linguistic, cultural, and culinary varieties can be incapacitating, and that’s only day one. Sitting in a chintzy coffee shop in Shanghai’s Xuhui district, sipping on a Colombian slow-drip coffee (I don’t know what…

Not white, not quite: eating disorders and ethnic minorities

Today is Chinese New Year. Millions of families will be coming together to eat and drink in abundance, welcoming in the Year of the Monkey. For families who have left China for the UK or US, separation from the ancestors will feel particularly acute. For the children of these families, the New Year is a…