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News on Entertainment & Culture in China

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Socialism is Great!

A new book offers timely insights into China in the 1980s
Feb 13, 2009 (WiC 2)

Were you aware that China’s children know the novel Oliver Twist as ‘The Orphan in the Foggy Capital’ – such is its title when translated into Chinese. This, and a host of other interesting material, anecdote and history are all good ...

Cautioned about lust

The somewhat cautionary tale of actress Tang Wei
Feb 13, 2009 (WiC 2)

Oscar-winning director, Lee Ang’s 2007 movie Lust Caution was considered a masterpiece by many devotees of modern Chinese cinema. But in China it had to have seven minutes of sex scenes deleted before it could be aired on the ...

Meet China’s richest novelist
Feb 6, 2009 (WiC 1)

The latest addition to China’s thirty centuries of literary tradition sports a tousled fringe and a taste for the type of clothing accessory once favoured by US diva Madonna. But 25 year-old Guo Jingming is also China’s richest author for the ...

More than just a record-breaking movie, Red Cliff rebrands China for the West
Feb 6, 2009 (WiC 1)

To this day the term Trojan Horse resonates with most Europeans and Americans. Generations of schoolchildren in the West have grown up hearing of the Trojan War, and how Troy was defeated thanks to a wooden horse. What is less well known is that ...

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