Mapping the International Internet Gothic

Reporting from a Nu China club night: “Goth” is shedding old definitions, reshaping across borders into an emerging “alt” internet aesthetic. We can’t…

Jul 21 • Patrick Kho

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June 2026

Inside Shanghai’s Gamer Nightclub

A gonzo-style review of INS Land, Shanghai’s famous six-story nightclub, and the rise of gamer-style nightlife.

Jun 30 • Patrick Kho

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Dreamcore: A New Aesthetic for the Turbulent Twenties

In Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms” and GOLD's “Dreamedcore,” the uncanny navigates a world in transition.

Jun 16 • Patrick Kho

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“Chinese Manufacturing” is the New “Zero Interest Rates”

Reporting from a nightclub in Shenzhen: Travel to China is recreating habits and fantasies of the Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) era.

Jun 2 • Patrick Kho

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May 2026

The Shanghai Cabaret Theory of Globalization

How an unlikely alliance of African Americans, Russians, and Filipinos in 1930s Shanghai created a new, bottom-up model for a connected world.

May 12 • Patrick Kho

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April 2026

A Crypto Scam at the Dim Sum “Rave”

A weekend of crypto bros hijacking local rave scenes, reported from a historic tea house in Hong Kong.

Apr 30 • Patrick Kho

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How to Resist a Stagnating Club Culture

For Hong Kong’s hardcore/deconstructed music scene, our everyday actions can imagine a better future.

Apr 21 • Patrick Kho

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The End of Soho House Globalism

The members’ club exported “cool” across the globe. But by 2026, it’s clear that good culture needs its roots.

Apr 7 • Patrick Kho

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March 2026

The Imagined “Asian Century” Will Not Exist

A post-internet art party in Hong Kong questions the prevailing narrative that Asia is “the future.”

Mar 31 • Patrick Kho

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What Was Afro-Asian Hip-Hop?

Throughout the 2010s, Black and Asian rappers frequently traded symbols and sounds. The movement recalled a longer, shared Afro-Asian history in disco…

Mar 17 • Patrick Kho

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Wasians Are the New Face of Eugenics

Eileen Gu and Alyssa Liu are being co-opted by an extremist mixed-race eugenics movement. What does this phenomenon reveal about our geopolitical…

Mar 10 • Patrick Kho

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How Wong Kar-Wai Created the Future

Thirty years ago, the director engineered an era-defining futurist aesthetic and foresaw the anxieties of 2026.

Mar 3 • Patrick Kho

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