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The Deepening China-Hollywood Connection

China currently has the world’s second largest film market (by total box office revenue), and some estimate based on recent numbers that it could overtake the U.S. by 2018. As China’s middle class has grown over the past decade, the number of cinemas in the nation has increased by more than 800%. Under Beijing’s current film import quota, those proliferating silver screens are allowed to show only 34 foreign films each year—a policy both political