The stories you should be paying attention to – and the ones you might have missed.James Chambers on the Chinese city’s spotless façade and the welcome grime just beneath its surface.
Born into a family of hoteliers, Frenchman Alain-Thomas Briere has spent most of his life hopping from one city to another across Europe and Asia. The general manager of W Chengdu has lived in China since 2013 and has…
Video game developer Quentin Cucuel moved from Ubisoft’s headquarters in Paris to its development studio in Chengdu in 2015, calling the city home ever since. “Chengdu is basically China’s Western capital of technology,”…