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News on the Chinese Media & Gaming

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Douyin’s darling

Singles’ Day muted but ‘Crazy Xiaoyang’ is not
Nov 18, 2022 (WiC 608)

With more than 147 million subscribers, Cocomelon has made a fortune from nursery rhymes and children’s songs as the most popular English-language channel on YouTube. MrBeast – created by a man who specialises in stunts and challenges – is ...

A chapter closed

How the Kindle was killed by WeChat
Jan 21, 2022 (WiC 570)

There are different reasons to get a Kindle. Purists like the fact that the electronic reader’s screen is black-and-white so it doesn’t require a backlight and reads more like a paper book than a computer screen, for instance. And its fans ...

Macau’s casino sector stunned by the arrest of its top junket boss
Dec 3, 2021 (WiC 566)

Different casino companies lay claim to the status of the largest gambling firm. Spanning at least 600,000 square feet in area, the WinStar World in Oklahoma wins the title by floor space, for instance. Las Vegas Sands used to be the biggest ...

Turing’s talents

Chinese welcome new AI stars to their screens
Nov 5, 2021 (WiC 562)

It might be called a reality TV show but nothing about any of its contestants is real at all. Titled 2060, the new offering from Jiangsu TV pits 26 female competitors against one another in the typical singing and dancing talent show ...

China’s biggest podcast platform to go public
Sep 24, 2021 (WiC 557)

As the saying goes, as one door closes another door opens. Four days after Ximalaya shelved its Nasdaq listing plan, the Chinese podcasting platform filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong. The move surprised no one. Ximalaya first ...

Xi calls on spin doctors to make China “lovable”
Jun 11, 2021 (WiC 544)

According to Cpcnews.cn, the official website of the Communist Party of China (CPC), there have been 73 group study sessions for its Politburo (which comprises 25 of the country’s most senior leaders) since Xi Jinping took power. The focus of ...

Media tycoon demands changes at broadcaster
Apr 16, 2021 (WiC 536)

Rupert Murdoch turned 90 last month. After 68 years as boss of News Corp, he is one of the world’s longest-serving CEOs. Li Ruigang, chairman of state-owned media investment firm CMC Capital, is sometimes dubbed as Murdoch’s equivalent in ...

Changing channel

Can Phoenix TV rebound from its P2P woes?
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

When the international arm of state broadcaster CCTV was rebranded into CGTN in 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged in his congratulatory message that the country’s media outlets “tell China’s stories well”. That phrase has been a ...

Wang’s long view

A 30 year-old book forecasts American decline
Jan 22, 2021 (WiC 525)

A month after it was announced that Wang Huning would become one of the seven most senior officials in the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2017, we reported how his out-of-print books were selling at sky-high prices as collectors’ items (see ...

Yoozoo poisoning casts shadow on Netflix show
Jan 8, 2021 (WiC 523)

Murder by poisoning dates back many centuries. Deemed an unchivalrous method of assassination, the same technique is still used today – the poisoning of Russian agent Sergei Skripal with Novichok in the UK caused a major diplomatic incident in ...

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