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News on Entertainment & Culture in China

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‘Don’t eat meat’

The Chinese love meat. Can a vegetarian campaign succeed?
Dec 4, 2009 (WiC 41)

The Chinese have always had a pragmatically unsentimental attitude to animals. As the old saying goes, anything with four legs, except a table, can be eaten. So has animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) ...

Wei’s winning formula

The channel that revolutionised Chinese TV
Nov 30, 2009 (WiC 38)

If you concede, reluctantly, that the cornerstones of Western pop culture these days are shows like The X-Factor in Britain or American Idol in the US, then you might wonder what China has to offer along these lines. When it ...

Gross miscalculation

Should we believe China's box office figures?
Nov 27, 2009 (WiC 40)

In a country with a reputation for unreliable economic data it should come as little surprise that Chinese filmmakers have been accused of fiddling the box office figures. Take animated film Astro Boy. According to its producer Enlight Media, ...

Lacking judgement

Flouting 5,000 years of tradition, TV show promotes plain-speaking
Nov 20, 2009 (WiC 39)

Zhou Enlai “was perfection in the waltz”, noted the American journalist Anna Louise Strong. Strong spent six months living in the bleak caves of Yanan with the communist leadership in 1946. The highlight of her week was the Saturday night ...

Jackson film sells out

Farewell movie pulls in huge audiences across China
Nov 6, 2009 (WiC 37)

In his lifetime he was “Wacko Jacko,” but for millions of Chinese Michael Jackson is still the beloved “King of Pop”. No surprise then that tickets to the Beijing premiere of the Michael Jackson memorial offering This Is It quickly ...

Good girl goes bad

Actress uses new role to break typecast image
Oct 30, 2009 (WiC 36)

For most women, good looks are thought to be advantageous. But for some Chinese movie stars, excessive beauty can be a curse as well as a blessing. Lin Chi-ling knows this only too well, and the Taiwanese model-actress came in for criticism ...

Film fraternity

Brothers take aim at movie heavyweights
Oct 9, 2009 (WiC 34)

Move over, Warner Brothers. China’s Huayi Brothers are vying to become a leading global movie producer. Huayi Brothers, founded by the two brothers Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei, is the mainland’s largest privately-owned filmmaker. ...

Trumpeting the revolution

How Mao’s wife inadvertently spawned a classical generation
Oct 9, 2009 (WiC 34)

Five encores later, the audience in Hong Kong finally permitted 22 year-old pianist Wang Yuja to leave the stage. Then they formed a queue that snaked out of the building, in hope that the virtuoso would autograph their copy of her debut ...

Getting the message

Spy stories captivate
Oct 2, 2009 (WiC 33)

Chinese espionage has a long history. The Art of War, written by Sun Tzu (544 to 496 BC), is filled with tales of spies and subterfuge. China has its own Mata Hari too, a beautiful concubine named Xi Shi dispatched by the Yue kingdom ...

How to lose 380m viewers

Why one of China’s most successful shows lost popularity
Sep 18, 2009 (WiC 31)

Even Simon Cowell – the world’s best known reality-show judge – would be hard-pressed to call this year’s Happy Girl dull. China’s version of American Idol has been entertaining to watch, thanks to Zeng Yike, a 19 year-old ...

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