Blog Author - Max Wu

 Give and Take: Our Top Picks of Considerate Thievery
We hate thieves, but sometimes we're entertained by them. Especially when they leave a message telling us that they didn’t steal anything because we...
Spooky Beijing: The City's Creepiest Tales
Build on a graveyard, expect a haunting. But hire a leper to be your gatekeeper, and the ghouls will stay away. That’s supposedly what happened at...
Mind The Slap: Subway Beatdown
It's impressive, isn't it, how quickly empty seats are snatched up on the subway trains or buses? If you've lived in Beijing long enough to have...
Film Talker: Da Wei, Film Narrator For the Blind
Da Wei is that guy in the movie theater who’s always commenting loudly on the action as it happens. The difference is that his fellow moviegoers...
The Hit Factory: Beijing’s Legendary Recording Studio
If livehouses are the cradle of the music scene, then recording studios are like the first day of school: when all that playful freedom gets...
Busk Stop: Zheng Tianqi, Street Musician
  Zheng Tianqi was discovered by a TV producer while busking in 2009. Since that big break, he’s appeared on CCTV (and started a media company...
Mr. Mystery: Huang Weiyu, Escape Room Gamemaker
We never saw the man who locked us in his escape room game – he had communicated with us over the phone. The game itself was chaos – only afterwards...
Beijing Spiderman: Qu Yong, High-Rise Window Cleaner
  Window cleaners in Beijing are called spidermen for a reason – they dangle from buildings and they’re intrepid (ahem) grimefighters. Qu Yong first...