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News on Entertainment & Culture in China

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Pride before the fall

Chloe Zhao’s Golden Globe win sparks joy in China – and then derision
Mar 12, 2021 (WiC 531)

The first woman to win a Golden Globe for directing was Barbra Streisand, who took the award for Yentl in 1984. Only four other women (Sofia Coppola, Jane Campion, Ava DuVernay and Kathryn Bigelow) have been nominated in the best director ...

A show that’s about business

Popular new drama pokes fun at China’s e-commerce giants
Mar 5, 2021 (WiC 530)

When it comes to the world’s most famous son-in-law, Jared Kushner, 40, is pretty high up on the list. Despite his political inexperience, the husband of Ivanka Trump became a key adviser to her father’s administration on Middle East policy. ...

Cinemas welcome 34 million

Chinese box office sets new records over the new year holiday period
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

While cinemas in the United States are gathering cobwebs, China’s movie industry has celebrated a much busier Chinese New Year. Last Friday – the first day of the national holiday and traditionally the best day at the box office each year – ...

Why the only show in town for some Chinese celebrities is reality TV
Feb 5, 2021 (WiC 527)

How difficult is it for divorced women to find love in China? If Hunan Satellite TV’s latest reality series is anything to go by, it is no walk in the park. In mid-January, the network debuted a new show called A Journey For Love. ...

Scandal over surrogacy

Two celebrity pregnancies set China buzzing with contrasting reactions
Jan 29, 2021 (WiC 526)

On the TV show Scandal, Kerry Washington plays Olivia Pope, an immaculately dressed crisis management expert in Washington, D.C. The spin doctor helps powerful politicians to contain scandals and manage crises – including the drama’s ...

A tale of two sisters

The very different lives led by the daughters of Huawei’s founder
Jan 22, 2021 (WiC 525)

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou hasn’t set foot in China since 2018. Instead the daughter of Huawei boss Ren Zhengfei remains holed up in Vancouver, under house arrest as she fights against an extradition request from the US. Back in China, Meng’s ...

Age cannot wither her?

Chinese megastar Zhang Ziyi takes flak for playing a teenage princess
Jan 15, 2021 (WiC 524)

A year or two before her big international break 21 years ago in Lee Ang’s martial arts love story Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zhang Ziyi first caught the attention of famed local director Zhang Yimou, who chose the then 20 ...

It’s Doctor Strange but true

Director Guo Jingming’s blockbuster pulled from screens over plagiarism
Jan 8, 2021 (WiC 523)

Few people will shed tears on saying farewell to 2020. But with many parts of the world still struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the celebration of the start of a new year was nevertheless subdued. Times Square in New York was eerily ...

A very Trumpian show

New reality TV series revolves around recruiting an intern at a top law firm
Dec 11, 2020 (WiC 522)

In the reality show The Apprentice – which first aired in 2004 – contestants competed for a chance to head one of Donald Trump’s companies. The show was a huge ratings winner and has a plausible claim as a key contributor to ...

Top of the flops

Zhang Yimou's new movie fails to strike a chord with young audience
Dec 11, 2020 (WiC 522)

Filmmaker Zhang Yimou titled his latest feature One Second, but it took much longer than that to get the film released. A story based in the Cultural Revolution, it was originally scheduled to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in ...

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