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News on Entertainment & Culture in China

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The world of Du Lala

Hit novel about office life gets ‘Sex and the City’ treatment in new movie
Sep 4, 2009 (WiC 29)

Michael Lewis’ best-selling Liar’s Poker must be close to the top of the reading list for most aspiring Wall Streeters. The book, which records Lewis’ experience as a bond trader at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s, has always ...

Five years in the making

China’s latest attempt to produce an international blockbuster movie
Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27)

Another week, another historical movie. Regular readers of WiC will have noted the striking number of films (as well as television series) that are set in China’s distant past. Empire of Silver – due for release today – is the ...

China’s latest hot TV drama
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

Jiang Qing was Mao Zedong’s third (and final) wife. But mention her name in China today, and you will likely be told she was the twentieth century’s most evil woman. Most will recall her inflammatory role as a member of the Gang of Four ...

Mulan minus Disney

A homegrown movie intends to reclaim a legend
Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25)

Every Chinese child can recite the tale of Hua Mulan, the legendary warrior princess who disguises herself as a man in order to take the place of her ailing father in a decisive battle. So Disney thought it was on to a winner in 1998, when it ...

But will it outgross Titanic?

Big name actors line up to star in a blockbuster about China’s revolution
Jul 17, 2009 (WiC 24)

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” One of Churchill’s most famous utterances, in which he was lauding the heroic contribution of Britain’s outnumbered Royal Air Force pilots, who repelled ...

Jackson’s life written in 2 days; in Beijing shops within a week
Jul 10, 2009 (WiC 23)

China is a land where things get manufactured fast. So it should come as little surprise that there was a new book about Michael Jackson out on the shelves within a week of his death. China Youth Daily reports that publishing house Xiandai ...

Transformational

Michael Bay’s blockbuster movie sets a new record in China
Jul 10, 2009 (WiC 23)

Transformers are huge in China, and we are not talking about the device that transfers electricity from one circuit to another. In the first five days since the movie Transformers: Revenge of the of the Fallen opened in China, the ...

Jet’s jumbo giving

Li’s charity packs a punch
Jul 3, 2009 (WiC 22)

Perhaps best known for his graceful martial art sequences in movies like Hero, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and The Warlords, Jet Li has been assuming another identity in China: that of the philanthropist. Li launched the One ...

Not-so-plain Jane

Beijing adaptation of an English classic sells out
Jul 3, 2009 (WiC 22)

Chairman Mao would no doubt be horrified to hear that Jane Eyre is being staged in Beijing. Quite aside from being a bourgeois liberal text, there is also the inconvenient fact that Jane’s least favourite place is called the ...

CCTV news programme to try a rethink?
Jun 19, 2009 (WiC 20)

Newscasters are supposed to read the headlines rather than to make them, so recent goings-on at state broadcaster CCTV have been a break with the reporting routine. Last week we mentioned the case of a Miss Zhang, a CCTV reporter tricked into ...

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