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Once a month, Frederiksberg’s Café Cadeau opens its doors and bids everyone with even a faint interest in Chinese cuisine welcome. From 17.00-20.30 on these special, Chinese Eves, this non-profit café offers a small variety of home cooked, Chinese dishes. The first to appear before the staircase to the entrance on this Wednesday evening is [...]

The sound of voices could be heard everywhere at the Café Cadeau when Talk Night was held on Tuesday 5 April. It began in English, slowly turning to Chinese and Japanese when eventually dinner had been eaten and the real fun began. You did not have to look far for someone to talk to, familiar [...]

ASP Culture Club on 30 March arranged a movie night for ASP and friends, to catch a glimpse of the much-rewarded masterpiece Seven Samurai (1954), from award-winning director Akira Kurosawa. The film itself lasts 207 minutes, all shot in black and white, and has been digitally re-mastered, improving sound and visuals. 17 students had signed [...]

Shanghai has an incredible tendency for variation, in many aspects. The weather would be one of the best examples of this. Sunny Shanghai often turns into a puddle when the seasonal monsoons swing by. People from all over China and the rest of the world crowd the city and contribute to a hard to beat [...]

I love small monsters. Tokyo love! The world is going crazy for Lady Gaga and Japan is no exception. Within the last two years, Japan has gone absolutely gaga. Lady Gaga arrived at Narita Airport for her 2010 Monster Ball World Tour in what many has described as quite a ludicrous outfit. But her outfit [...]

An insight to the growing problem of homelessness in Japan To most, Japan is a vibrant, quirky,  untarnished society, where order and control go hand-in-hand, not only in regards to the reigning mentality, but also in regards to its society. However, every society has its outcasts and Japan is no different. It is not something [...]

Sakarias Eriksson, who is in Shanghai for two months, is telling about his experiences, life and general gossip from the big city.

A Conflict Based Understanding However, this might not be the underlying issue. From a conflict perspective, we are all manipulated and given a false consciousness of reality to help maintain the system (Haralambos et al. 2008, p.11). Employers might therefore have been brainwashed by the society to think that male managers are more capable than [...]

The market for plastic surgery in China is growing by 20% annually. In fact, there are currently an estimated 10,000 clinics in china offering surgical cosmetic procedures . The most interesting aspect of cosmetic surgery in China, however, is the way it has evolved since it was introduced in Beijing in 1994 . With the [...]

When the Sakura trees in Japan blossoms, people gather together for Hanami – flower watching. It is an occasionally tradition where people meet up with family and friends to have a picnic while viewing the beautiful Sakura trees. Some people also wear the traditional Yukata at this occasion. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary [...]