Entertainment « Week In China - Part 9

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Popular new TV show features strong women and weak men
Nov 10, 2017 (WiC 387)

In late 2015 a low budget TV series that cost just Rmb20 million ($3 million) to make went on to become a hit show on China’s internet. Go Princess Go told the unlikely story of a modern-day playboy who suddenly finds himself reborn ...

Han Han’s journey from rebel intellectual to movie mogul
Nov 3, 2017 (WiC 386)

Han Han’s blog was at its most popular eight years ago when it was getting over 100 million views. It has been largely dormant since then. In fact, the last time the writer-filmmaker updated his blog – in which he commonly lashed out at ...

Jackie Chan wins unusually high praise for gritty role in terrorism movie
Oct 27, 2017 (WiC 385)

When The Last Emperor was released in 1987, it was reckoned to be one of the most ‘cosmopolitan’ movies of the era. Produced by an English studio, the Oscar-winning picture was directed by Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci and ...

Stage play becomes China’s biggest comedy movie ever
Oct 20, 2017 (WiC 384)

First, the good news: the eight-day long National Day holiday, a prime moviegoing season, set a new record. Its box office haul reached almost Rmb3 billion ($450 million), doubling last year’s figures. Now the bad: almost all the films that ...

Pop idol’s love statement sends Sina Weibo into meltdown
Oct 20, 2017 (WiC 384)

When actor Wang Baoqiang announced on Sina Weibo that he was divorcing his wife in August 2016 – after accusing her of cheating on him with his agent – the news quickly went viral. Within days, the post was viewed over three billion times and ...

Why a Hong Kong gangster epic is a National Day holiday hit
Oct 6, 2017 (WiC 383)

Gangster movies don’t normally get a showing at Chinese cinemas given that mafia bosses (along with ghosts) were declared a thing of the past when the Communist Party took power 1949 (both things violated its ideological principles: the first ...

Now not showing – top director’s film pulled from Golden Week slot
Sep 29, 2017 (WiC 382)

One of the things that made Feng Xiaogang so successful in China was that unlike other filmmakers of his generation – such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou – he rarely waded into politics. Feng first struck gold in 1997 with a comedy called ...

New drama about Shaanxi’s most famous businesswoman tops TV ratings
Sep 22, 2017 (WiC 381)

At last weekend’s Emmy Awards many of the shows that took home the biggest prizes were female-centric series like The Handmaid’s Tale, Big Little Lies, and Veep. “It’s been an incredible year for women in ...

Top actress reveals state secrets in novel approach to promoting her film
Sep 15, 2017 (WiC 380)

Even though The New York Times called the film “the best non-documentary American feature made yet about the war in Iraq,” the US military did not want anything to do with Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker. When asked why the ...

Hip-hop reality show is a surprise summer hit for online streamer iQiyi
Sep 1, 2017 (WiC 378)

Rap gets plenty of publicity, especially when it turns offensive. And in China, a song called ‘Stupid Laowai’ (a term referring to foreign expats) has been getting attention thanks to its racist tone. In the rap Xie Di, a performer from ...

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