STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Ever since Xiao Jia Zou, 30, worked in a gift shop that sold unique children’s clothing and gifts for both kids and adults in her home country of China, she dreamed of opening a ...

Leading Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns home to Fenyang in Shanxi province after winning the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for Still Life (2006). The experiences ...

When Xiao Jia lost her sight as a teenager she was told the "respectable" career choice was to become a massage therapist, instead she found an industry rife with abuse and aggression, where women are ...

BEIJING — Sitting on the couch in Xiao Jia’s apartment, I learned how difficult it is to apply makeup to a face you cannot see. Xiao, 27, gradually lost her eyesight during her teens. Determined to ...

When blind woman Xiao Jia asked a passer-by for directions in a Beijing pedestrian tunnel seven years ago, the person assumed she was a scammer because of her perfectly applied make-up. “How can you ...

At 3 pm on a recent afternoon, 30-year-old Xiao Jia pulled back the curtains in her Beijing apartment, allowing warm sunshine to fall on 200 newly purchased lipsticks laid neatly in rows on the floor.