About Patrick Kho
I’ve written about hip-hop as a lens into US–China relations, rave culture and Asian modernity, independent art scenes in the era of platforms, the visual culture of industrial decline, the Asian epidemic of faux Japanese-ness, and the punk revival in the “world’s most expensive city. ”
This reporting is part of a larger project exploring this question: What can subculture—be it hyperlocal brands, “underground” art and design, communities outside the mainstream—tell us about economic shifts and emerging business trends?
I primarily write THE CHOW from Hong Kong, where I’m currently based. While existing reporting has an Asia focus, it isn’t geographically constrained.
THE CHOW: Asia’s only newsletter on the “business of subculture. ”
Some of Patrick Kho's other writing includes:
Photographer Gab Mejia Shot the World.