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We have selected seven Lifestyle stories from the past seven days that resonated with our readers. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. How Sharla Cheung excelled next to Stephen Chow in 1990s Hong Kong cinema Sharla Cheung Man was one of Hong Kong cinema’s most popular actresses in the early 1990s. A Shanghainese beauty with classic fi...

During mainland China’s recent May Day holiday, a 2,500-year-old sword went viral on Chinese social media – but not for the reason you might think. Lasting from May 1 to 5, the May Day holiday – also known as “Golden Week” – sees large numbers of domestic tourists flocking to popular travel destinations across China, including the Hubei Provincial Museum, which houses the famous...

This summer’s major London exhibition will undoubtedly be the James McNeill Whistler retrospective at Tate Britain. It is comprehensive and sprawling, requires a solid half-day commitment at least and is of particular interest to Asian visitors to the British capital. It is a fitting exhibit for the Tate. Though American-born, Whistler was closely associated with Chelsea, just d...

Their stories follow a remarkably similar path. They start with frustration: over skyrocketing housing prices, or the pandemic’s impact on their jobs, or the tedium of arranging flowers for weddings and funerals. They each wanted to drastically change their lives, and they were willing to gamble that the way to do that could be found in a roadside motel along Route 66, an Americ...

Li Yi-fan is turning heads in Italy, where his bizarre take on the digital self-portrait represents Taiwan at the 61st edition of the Venice Biennale. The video artist’s digital avatar – or “puppet”, as Li calls it – is impossible to unsee. It is naked – genitals obscured – with plaster-like skin, and is hairless and cloudy-eyed. It is not just physically crude but verbally vulg...