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Roman Kierst (小罗)
Roman Kierst is a staff writer and editor at The World of Chinese based in Beijing but much more at home in Chengdu, where his own China story first began as a high school exchange student in 2006. Likes to pick up a film camera occasionally to take pictures of (mostly) old places.
Fabric of Life: The Final Days of Hong Kong’s Famous Pang Jai Market
Catch a last glimpse of Kowloon’s Pang Jai fabric market, once a thriving center of East Asia’s textile industry, before it makes way for new construction
Fabric of Life: The Final Days of Hong Kong’s Famous Pang Jai Market
Catch a last glimpse of Kowloon’s Pang Jai fabric market, once a thriving center of East Asia’s textile industry, before it makes way for new construction
For the Record: How a War Refugee Built His Vinyl Haven in Hong Kong
Record store owner Paul Au has escaped the Vietnam War, slept in the streets, and weathered two pandemics to pursue his passion for vinyl
The Relic Hunter: One Man’s Race to Save China’s Old Cultural Landscapes
Amateur conservation Yang Fan has explored thousands of little-known historic sites in China, while trying to raise awareness for the need to protect these treasures before they disappear
Behind the Scenes at China’s Christmas Factories
It’s always holiday season in Yiwu, a “fourth-tier” Chinese city where migrant workers churn out two-thirds of the world’s Christmas decorations
Tough Times for China’s Boys’ Love Lovers
How the blacklisting of one popular online forum left droves of Chinese fans of queer fan fiction without a ”home”
Taobao Terror: When Gamified E-Commerce Took Over My Life
How a tabby cat mini-game helped transform China’s e-commerce ecosystem...not always for the better


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