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The Deer and the Cauldron was the last and most controversial work by the prolific writer Jin Yong (see WiC431 for more on the novelist whose real name was Louis Cha and who is often referred to as the ‘Tolkien of China’). Unlike the ...
Despite his spotty entrepreneurial track record, Luo Yonghao, the man behind a slew of defunct businesses ranging from handset maker Smartisan to a venture that sells synthetic shark skin, seems to have finally struck gold. Last week, ...
Actress Gal Gadot was five months pregnant when shooting the 2017 blockbuster Wonder Woman. Her stomach was getting so big that her figure was altered in post-production. But the pregnancy of Chinese actress Tang Yan during the filming ...
Most people turn to fiction for escapism, but what sets Yi Shu apart is that all her romance novels are loaded with a strong dose of pragmatism. For instance, in Please Forgive Me, the Hong Kong author writes: “Breaking up is a small ...
When the TV show The Best Partner first came out in late 2019, most of the comments online were that the legal drama bore a striking resemblance to the US hit series Suits. “A recreation of the stage scenery of ...
Over the course of her career, actress Fan Bingbing’s face has adorned countless advertisements. One estimate puts the number of her endorsement deal at over 120. However, the starlet’s commercial appearances have been few and far between ...
Set a crime against a bleak or snowy backdrop. Introduce police detectives with miserable family lives, who look like they never get a good night’s sleep. Mix in a backstory about a government cover-up. And there can only be one possibility: ...
In 2013 film studio Huayi Brothers and comedian-director Stephen Chow bickered over the distribution of profits for Chow’s Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons. The studio argued that it was an investor in the movie rather than ...
After multiple delays over the summer, Disney finally made the big decision to stop waiting for American cinemas to reopen, sending its blockbuster Mulan straight to people's homes. Last weekend, Mulan officially debuted in ...
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” is the opening line of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Over the years, China has explored plenty of family woes on television: between husband and wife; ...
