Weibo Scolded Over Content Control, Trend Manipulation
Social media platform Weibo has once again been targeted by Chinese regulators for failing to...
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Entertainment Accounts Closed as Party Emphasizes News Control
Dozens of popular social media accounts and apps that focus on celebrity and entertainment news...
Senator Calls for Probe of Chinese Firms’ U.S. Deals
Chinese commercial property developer and entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group has in...
How China Won the Keys to Disney’s Magic Kingdom
Seven years since getting a green light from Beijing and five since the official breaking of...
Xinjiang to Use Entertainment in Terror Fight
When the ongoing crackdown on terrorism in Xinjiang was first launched in May 2014, state media...
Bye Bye Vibrating Bras: China Limits Infomercials
Following measures to curb violence in children’s cartoons, China’s media regulator has...
Cartoons Boost Mao and Meritocracy
While tightening regulations on cartoons like Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf that may set a bad...
Pleasant Goat Smacked With Regulatory Frying Pan
At China Real Time, Laurie Burkitt and Lilian Lin report new moves to make children’s...
Wanda Founder Aims to Create Chinese Hollywood
Chinese property and entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group has announced plans for an $8.3...
Modern Dance Comes to China
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...
New Crackdown on TV Fluff
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...
Trump: Don’t Buy Chinese-Made Goods, Except Mine
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...
For Chinese, Web Is the Way to Entertainment
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...
CCTV Cancels a Talk Show and Shifts its Focus Toward Entertainment
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...
Beijing Loves IKEA — but not for Shopping
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...
Salsa Fever Sweeps into China
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’ Take on the Hong Kong Photo Scandal
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...
West End Stages an Invasion of China Musicals Market – Clifford Coonan
The Independent looks at the production of Mandarin-language versions of popular Broadway and West End musicals: To Western audiences, musicals may be a frothy and uplifting way to spend the evening, but like so much else, they are highly politicised in China. For many years, not a chorus line nor a technicolour dreamcoat were to […]
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