China's Best MJ Imitator – Arts & Entertainment

From bargain markets and backstreet boutiques, here's a fashion designer's favorite shopping route in China's capital

Hollywood, eh: who needs it when you’ve got Vincent Qi living in your city? Two years ago the man was a player – in every sense of the word – on the city’s pick-up artist (PUA) circuit.

Gong Yifei swapped life as an armed police officer for a precarious career as a pole-dancing trainer - and he wants pole-dancing to be respected as an art.
"There's no reason to think men are in any way inferior to women when it comes to dance. Especially when it comes to pole-dancing, where masculine strength is as vital as feminine flexibility."

Just in time to ring in the lunar new year, QQ features photos from Spring Festival in decades past, as well as a write-up of older Chengdu residents' memories of Spring Festival during those times, which we've loosely translated.