From the Washington Post: For Chinese punks today, it might take screaming to be heard. They make up a small slice of the music industry here, and they play to a largely underground scene. But their struggle to gain attention...
Read MoreFrom CRIEnglish via Xinhua News Agency: Zhang Liangying (º†ÈùìÈ¢ñ, Jane Zhang) will meet with Broadway senior management in America in the hopes of acting in Broadway shows in China. The Broadway Entertainment Company noticed Jane, the second runner-up of the Super Girl competition last year, through her performance in the musical “The Song of Light […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Starting this summer the Hong Kong government plans to have 200,000 youths search Internet discussion sites for illegal copies of copyrighted songs and movies, and report them to the authorities. The campaign has delighted the entertainment industry, but prompted misgivings among some civil liberties advocates. Christine Loh, the chief executive […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: It’s something impossible to predict. If this system doesn’t change, if there is no democratization, then it’ll be just like I said when we were commemorating Mr. Hu Yaobang“we were commemorating him, not mythologizing him”it would be impossible for China’s politics to be put straight by just one person. To think […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek Online: The rock bible’s debut points out the struggles rock music faces finding a wide market in Communist-ruled China. In many ways, the rock scene in China has never been healthier. Beijing has loosened up considerably toward big rock concerts. A dozen or so rock stars have become successful even by Western standards. […]
Read MoreFrom Yang Yue’s blog, translated by Danwei: In a concert in Xi’an in May, Xu Wei(ËÆ∏Â∑ç) added a recording of a section of the Qur’anÔºàÂè§ÂÖ∞ÁªèÔºâ to the intro to his song “Travel of the SwanԺ৩ÈπÖ‰πãÊóÖÔºâ,” offending Muslim listeners. Muslim groups in China began discussing it online, and Xu Wei fans rushed to his defense. Comparisons […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Scotsman: The 9th Shanghai International Film Festival opened on Saturday, drawing Hollywood stars to China’s financial capital as the country’s cultural life begins to catch up with its economic boom. Seventeen films will vie for the Golden Goblet, the festival’s top prize. Among those on the shortlist are two Chinese offerings, “The […]
Read MoreFrom Macworld.co.uk: Apple’s iPods are made by mainly female workers who earn as little as ¬£27 per month, according to a report in the Mail on Sunday yesterday. The report, ‘iPod City’, isn’t available online. It offers photographs taken from inside the factories that make Apple music players, situated in China and owned by Foxconn. […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei TV: Meet media mogul Hong Huang (洪晃 ) in the second part of a two part interview. Hong talks about the Chinese beauty mystique, jealousy, feminism, bar-fights, and her acting debut in recently released feature...
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg News: NTT DoCoMo Inc., the world’s second- largest wireless company, may seek partners in China after the Chinese government issues licenses for high-speed networks to expand in the world’s biggest mobile phone market. The government is considering three different standards for its 3G network, which would allow services such as video conferencing and […]
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