Word of the Week: State of Anxiety on Radio, Film, TV
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 14, 2018
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 4, 2014
Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 18, 2014
Reuters reports on a new rule from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and...
by Anne Henochowicz | Feb 10, 2014
The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television (SAPPRFT)–formed...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 21, 2014
Reuters reports that China’s Internet regulators have implemented a new rule requiring real...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 24, 2013
At China Media Project, David Bandurski writes that Guangdong’s New Express repeated its...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 15, 2013
At China Real Time, Laurie Burkitt and Lilian Lin report new moves to make children’s...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 29, 2013
As part of a government restructuring program initiated at the National People’s Congress in March, the General Administration of Press and Publications was merged with the State Administration of Radio, Film and...
by Josh Rudolph | May 30, 2013
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s new film, A Touch of Sin (天注定) screened at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month. While it lost the festival’s top prize to French-Tunisian director Abdellatif...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 12, 2013
The Wall Street Journal reports that the award-winning Django Unchained was halted during opening screenings on Thursday: Like a town marshal determined to nip trouble in the bud, China’s main film distributor rode into the...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 10, 2013
China’s State Council has submitted widely-anticipated plans for the restructuring of several government agencies to the National People’s Congress. The seventh such initiative in the past 30 years, the new plan aims...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 4, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 28, 2013
Author Yu Hua explains the different levels of censorship applied to Chinese media—from tightly controlled film, through TV and newspapers, to books—and dissects the varying political and economic considerations that account for...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 25, 2013
Chinese filmmakers and media experts have expressed skepticism about the practicality and motives of a new requirement for pre-approval of T.V. documentaries by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. From Liu...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 24, 2013
While China may have finally scaled the highest pinnacle of international literary acclaim, no such triumph is on the cards atop tonight’s glittering pile of Oscars. Didi Kirsten Tatlow at IHT Rendezvous wonders why, when...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 23, 2013
The genre-spanning Cloud Atlas debuts in China on January 31st in an incarnation almost a quarter shorter than the original cut, courtesy of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. From Ernest Kao at South China...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 14, 2013
As it tries to tap the burgeoning Chinese film market with local flavourings and joint ventures, Hollywood has increasingly had to navigate the unpredictable demands of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, or...
by Melissa M. Chan | Dec 9, 2012
Critics claim that the Chinese state’s control over and censorship of the film industry has stifled profits and creativity. Today the Los Angeles Times reports more indie filmmakers, such as Yang Jin, are looking for the...