Government Provides Outline of Major Restructuring Plan
A new proposal put before the National People’s Congress realigns the structure of the...
Ministry of Culture
Court Rejects Lawsuit From Besieged Liberal Journal
Last week, senior staff at the reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu were replaced by its supervising...
Liberal Journal Says It Will End Publication
Last week, staff at the high-profile reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu threatened a lawsuit after...
Minitrue: Don’t Cover Reshuffle at Liberal Journal
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Deng-era Reformist Warns of Overreaching Censorship
At South China Morning Post, Nectar Gan reports a newly published warning from former...
After Autoshow Model Ban, a Funeral Stripper Crackdown
At China Real Time, Te-Ping Chen and Josh Chin report a new crackdown on hiring strippers to...
Video Sites to Be Punished for Undesirable Anime
Seven video sharing websites will be investigated and punished for hosting animated series that...
China Releases Content Rules for Console Games
As long-anticipated official availability of foreign consoles in China nears, Games In...
China’s Internet Cafés in Decline
They have served as crucibles for the country’s online culture and as schools and sanctuaries for its marginalized migrant workers. But according to a new report from the Ministry of Culture, China’s Internet cafés...
NPC May Establish Unified Food and Drug Agency
Among the most anticipated policy unveilings at the ongoing Two Sessions is the likely consolidation of some of China’s 27 ministries and countless lower-level government bodies. The State Administration for Radio, Film...
End to Game Console Ban May Be in Sight
China Daily’s Shen Jingting reports rumblings within China’s Ministry of Culture about a possible end to the 13-year ban on game consoles which have made Sony and Nintendo shares jump. The bureaucratic tangle...
Mao Portraits Barred from Chinese Leg of Warhol Tour
Speculation that China’s incoming leaders would sweep Mao’s remains from the political stage turned out to be ill-founded, but the Chairman will be missing from a touring Andy Warhol exhibition when it reaches the...
Demise of Confucius Prize?
The Confucius Prize, established last year in an apparent response to Liu Xiaobo’s selection for the Nobel Peace Prize, has been cancelled, according to the Associated Press: An official with the Ministry of Culture’s...
China’s First Law on Online Games to Take Effect
China’s Ministry of Culture has issued new rules [CN] regulating online gaming. From Xinhua: China’s first regulation governing the booming market of on-line games will take effect on Sunday, which is expected to...
China’s Offering New Culture Venue to Its Citizens
The New York Times reports: Like many cities in China, Guangzhou has built a top-notch performing arts arena in the hopes of lifting its cultural credentials and offering new forms of live entertainment to the increasing numbers...
Warcraft Row: An Industry Game Changer
Caixin looks at Netease’s struggle to get the game World of Warcraft back online in China and the bureaucratic turf wars that the gaming industry must navigate: NetEase is a veteran of Chinese online gaming, with seven...
China Tightens Supervision of Online Games
According to a statement released yesterday, the Ministry of Culture has set some standards [CN] to regulate online games. From AFP: China has vowed to tighten supervision of its fast-growing online games market, saying some...
China Bureaucratic War over Online Warcraft Heats Up
Reuters reports on a growing tiff between the Ministry of Culture and the General Administration for Press and Publications (GAPP) over regulation of the online game World of Warcraft: The rare public turf war between the two...
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