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1. The New's Allister Lee

   Artist goes on a pilgrimage to eight of the world’s most interesting Chinatowns, and paints about them.

2. The New's Hifana

   The electro-percussionist duo scratch and mix snippets of found sound, beats, and video in their unforgettable live performances.

3. The New's Azuma Makoto

   Through his collaboration with Issey Miyake and Collette, Makoto is forging an innovative new bond between botany and art.

4. Theme Genghis Khan is Chairman of the Horde

   Tribal scholar Jack Weatherford recasts the warrior chief as a kinder, more refined emperor of kings.

5. Theme Hiroshi Kashiwagi’s American Dream Through Japanese Eyes

   Kashiwagi explains Japan’s post WWII fascination with all things American.

6. Theme From Chan to Zen in 15 Centuries

   It is a supreme irony that Zen has become cultural shorthand for an easy-to-grasp aesthetic, when actual Zen Buddhism is renowned for its opacity and elusiveness.

7. Theme Bi Sheng, Not His Type

   Movable type’s impact on the evolution of literacy and publishing has been profound. An abridged history of movable type.

8. Theme Apple’s Turnover

   It’s “forbidden,” yet it’s the most widely cultivated fruit of all. Follow the history of the apple from it’s birthplace in the “Heavenly Mountains” of China.

9. Theme Joints of Wood

   Early man got sick of living in caves and started building “houses” out of wood. To keep the houses from falling apart, they needed wood joints. 

10. Theme Beijing’s Underground Rock Scene

    It is obscurity, the nooks and crannies, the looming underground spaces of possibility, that Beijing’s rock scene is thriving.

11. Theme Jeffrey Wong Builds Brick-by-Brick

    Jeffrey Wong is collecting whole cities, brick-by-brick, tile-by-tile, to preserve the fragile history of traditional architecture in China.

12. Top 10 Albums Mike Relm’s Top 10

    Skratch turntablist DJ Mike Relm give us his Top 10 favorite albums of all time.

13. Fashion Stories Headlines

    From the fall of the Berlin wall to the the first man on the moon, this fashion story emotes key 20th century events.

14. Portraits The Way We Were

    A family portrait of America during the ‘70s

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