In recent days, a number of major state and Party media outlets have simultaneously republished a relatively obscure essayist’s screed on sissy-boy celebrities, get-rich-quick capitalists, and lessons that the collapse of the...
Social media platform Weibo has once again been targeted by Chinese regulators for failing to...
Dozens of popular social media accounts and apps that focus on celebrity and entertainment news...
Chinese commercial property developer and entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group has in...
Seven years since getting a green light from Beijing and five since the official breaking of...
When the ongoing crackdown on terrorism in Xinjiang was first launched in May 2014, state media...
Following measures to curb violence in children’s cartoons, China’s media regulator has...
While tightening regulations on cartoons like Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf that may set a bad...
At China Real Time, Laurie Burkitt and Lilian Lin report new moves to make children’s...
Chinese property and entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group has announced plans for an $8.3...
For most of the beginning of the 20th century, China focused on promoting ballet, folk dance, and traditional opera, but with the growing popularity of different dance styles, such as salsa and hip-hop, modern dance has also...
Undeterred by widespread mockery abroad of guidelines discouraging time travel dramas, Chinese officials are looking for other ways of promoting a more wholesome TV diet as the number of viewers watching entertainment shows...
Reality TV star Donald Trump has urged Americans to buy less “crap” from China. Salon’s Justin Elliott wonders whether that includes the Donald J. Trump Signature Collection of mid-range, Chinese-made business...
With nowhere else to go, young people in China are going online for fun, the New York Times reports: Google’s decision last month to remove some of its operations from China has overshadowed a startling dynamic at work in this...
The CCTV talk show, Tell It Like It Is (实话实说), has been cancelled, reportedly due to low ratings. However, the show’s demise may be better explained by CCTV’s shift towards entertainment programming. Danwei’s...
The Los Angeles Times follows Beijingers to the local Ikea, where they spend the afternoon lounging, eating, and taking photos: Welcome to IKEA Beijing, where the atmosphere is more theme park than store. When the Swedish...
From the International Herald Tribune: This week’s third annual China Salsa Congress in Beijing, which features four days of performances and competition, highlights the growing popularity of salsa in China. Salsa was...
Forbes has written an interesting piece on the Hong Kong celebrity photo scandal, in essence, explaining its importance to western audiences: It’s been called the equivalent of the 9/11 disaster for the Hong Kong...
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