Shilei Wang Archive

With loneliness on the rise, people are paying strangers to cuddle them. But is it therapy, companionship, or something else entirely? When a young man arrived for a cuddle session with Jerika, he could barely make eye contact. Fresh out of university, …

  For over a hundred years, the Yiu Ming Temple has stood on Sydney’s Retreat Street, nestled among factories and apartment buildings, enduring the city’s changes.   Founded in 1909 by migrants from Gaoyao and Gaoming in Guangdong, Southern China, it served not only as a place …