Let One Hundred Panthers Bloom

The Black Panthers and Mao Zedong

“Chairman Mao says that death comes to all of us, but it varies in its significance: to die for the reactionary is lighter than a feather; to die for the revolution is heavier than Mount Tai.” So wrote Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party, in the opening pages of his 1973 memoir, Revolutionary Suicide. Newton wished to be as monumental as Tai, a famously large Chinese mountain, and, he wrote, “I do not expect to live through our revolution.”

They | Tencent

While working as a photojournalist for the daily newspaper Chongqing Morning Post in the late 2000s, Zhang Xiao would snap images of the scenes around him with the quirky, cult-classic Holga camera. These soft-focused, vignetted scenes differed from the more realistic style his paper demanded, but they capture the whimsy, nostalgia, and absurdity present in everyday life in China.

Sexy Male Crossdressers | Sina Witness

The cross-dressing dance group Stereo is made up of nine men with varied backgrounds, including an employee of a state-owned enterprise, a professional dance instructor, and a railway security officer. Photographer Zou Biyu followed three of Stereo’s members, who go by the nicknames Peipei, Qiqi, and Lunlun, as they participated in a festival for Internet celebrities last month at the Sheraton Hotel in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province.

The Mencius Mothers of Hong Kong | Caixin Media

There is a popular ancient Chinese tale about how Mencius’ mother did not rest until she found a suitable environment in which to raise her son. Mencius, who lived from 372 to 289 B.C.E., became a great interpreter of Confucianism and one of the most respected Chinese philosophers. Today, a ‘Mencius Mother’ refers to mainland mothers, mostly from well-educated, middle-class families, who enroll their children in schools in Hong Kong and move there to support them.