In today’s world, where a fashion trend can be adopted across the globe in just a matter of hours, having a signature scent is a must. That’s because a trademark fragrance is the most intimate accessory we can call our own, reflecting who we are and what makes us unique without us having to say a single word. Knowing this only too well, Henry Jacques opened its first experiential boutique for its Hong Kong clientele last year, following in the footsteps of its Singapore and Kuala Lumpur outposts.

Her long black hair piled atop her head and stunning in a floor-length silk gown, Madame Sylvia Wu would step from her Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud and – smiling broadly – push open the red double doors of her pagoda-style restaurant, already teeming with customers. On a given night, Frank Sinatra and his young bride, Mia Farrow, would be enjoying a plate of Wu’s beef, stir-fried shards of flank steak with onions and oyster sauce.

La novela gráfica está considerada como un género de la literatura transmedia, que trasciende los formatos tradicionales y replantea las bases de la literatura tradicional al hacer uso de un lenguaje intertextual, en el que se vinculan el arte visual y la narrativa para crear un nuevo género acorde a la polisemia de la época contemporánea, donde múltiples canales se unifican en torno a una historia para darle significado. Dada esta cualidad para sintetizar imágenes y texto, la novela gráfica se encuentra en una época de reconocimiento y valorización sin precedentes.

Six major Chinese museums are among the international collaborators of a new exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), a reminder that active cultural exchanges between China and America can continue despite continuing political tensions. “Right now, it is very important to work with China in a time of tense relationship. And culture offers the possibility to connect, to collaborate and communicate,” says Clarissa von Spee, the curator behind “China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta”, which opens at the 110-year-old museum in Ohio, in the United States, on September 10.

The April 3rd Incident by Yu Hua Pantheon The April 3rd Incident collects recent short stories by China’s literary enfant terrible. Yu Hua’s The Seventh Day - grim satire on China’s poor Yu Hua’s reputation owes much to his experiments with avant-garde techniques (sudden leaps in time or perspective, unholy clashes of comedy and tragedy), his relish of violence and the scatological (toilets both sumptuous and rudimentary proliferate in his inter­national breakthrough, Brothers, 2005), and how such devices drive the political intent of his writing: the jagged edges of Yu’s fiction reflect “realities of modern Chinese society [that] are even more fantastical than fiction”.