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News on Entertainment & Culture in China

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Thinking out of the box

Star actress Yang Mi turns her hand to a new TV format
Jul 17, 2020 (WiC 504)

Originating in Japan, the first real-life ‘escape room’ was created by a company called Scrap in Kyoto in 2007. The adventure game puts people in different scenarios – think hijacked planes and sinking submarines – and asks them to solve ...

All the right moves

Kids’ street dance show earns near perfect rating from audience
Jul 10, 2020 (WiC 503)

From its origins in 1970s New York, breakdancing is now set to become an Olympic sport. Last June, the International Olympic Committee announced that the acrobatic style of street dance will be included at the Paris Olympics in 2024. The move ...

The kids ain’t alright

Why has a new 12-episode drama from iQiyi won acclaim?
Jul 3, 2020 (WiC 502)

Less has turned out to be more for audiences of the biggest breakout drama on online video-streaming platform iQiyi this year. The Bad Kids, which was adapted from a popular novel, follows the story of three children (Xiao Bai, Xiao ...

The pandemic has devastated the Chinese film industry
Jun 26, 2020 (WiC 501)

Since re-establishing diplomatic ties with the United States in 1978, Chinese film studios hadn’t produced a single film about going to war with America’s armed forces. Maybe that was a reflection of decades of relatively benign relations ...

As if Amazon bought Netflix

Tencent set to swoop for iQiyi in bid to stem video streaming losses
Jun 26, 2020 (WiC 501)

Content is king in the streaming sector. But it’s expensive too: just look at Netflix’s spending on content, which has grown from $9 billion in 2017 to $14.6 billion this year. Part of the increase has been covered by higher subscriber fees. ...

The first episode got 420 million views – what makes this show different?
Jun 19, 2020 (WiC 500)

One of the certainties about girl bands is that they aren’t destined to last forever. Many of the best-known bands in Asia try to delay the inevitable, changing their line-ups as their singers start to age. However, once passionate younger fans ...

Meet the mother-in-law

Widely discussed new TV show deals in real life family tensions
Jun 5, 2020 (WiC 498)

Of all the relationships in family life, the one between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is often the most difficult. According to Cambridge University research, six out of 10 women find the relationship with their mother-in-law a ...

Straight to streaming

Arthouse films bypass shuttered cinemas and distribute online
May 29, 2020 (WiC 497)

Mother-daughter ties are often complicated. As Kira Birditt from the University of Michigan puts it, they can be “the closest and most irritating” of relationships. Last week, an arthouse movie about a particularly toxic mother-daughter ...

Spilling the beans

Celebrity’s personal information leaked
May 29, 2020 (WiC 497)

Wang Yuechi, known by his stage name Chi Zi, first came to fame through Roast Convention, China’s closest equivalent to the US programme Comedy Central Roasts. By virtue of his quick wit and well-polished jokes, the 25 ...

Product placement taken to new heights in reality TV show’s latest season
May 22, 2020 (WiC 496)

Chinese reality TV often seems to lead to traumatic moments – last year, a 35 year-old actor, for instance, died from a heart attack during filming of a show that demanded the celebrities undertake extreme physical challenges. Reality series ...

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