Credit: Nate Kan

Nate is an editor at MAEKAN. He is a writer, actor and translator currently based in Hong Kong.

China’s Underground Basketball Scene

We speak with freelance athlete Erron Maxey and hear about China’s Wildball industry.

Nate speaks with Emanuel Hahn and Andrew Kung about their work capturing Mississippi’s Delta Chinese community.

Behind the arduous process of creating a modern Chinese typeface from scratch.

How the name YETI came to be and how he created a music and event entity from the ground up.

The beloved items of Hikaru Komura, founder of Japanese handcraft store Uguisu the Little Shoppe

A brief history of virtual pets and their place in our smartphone-centric lives.

The origins of homegrown Hong Kong street label OKOKOK.

Traditions and implications of burnable funeral goods.

The Hong Kong photographer talks about reconnecting with his ancestral clan in southern China.

An opportune visit to a referral-only hidden sake bar in Tokyo.

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