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News on the Chinese Media & Gaming

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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 ...

Alibaba buys into a streaming video giant
Nov 27, 2020 (WiC 520)

In Chinese martial arts novels, bi wu zhao qin (比武招亲) was a customary way of helping a woman to find a worthy husband. A father would put out a notice that his daughter was available for marriage and suitors would then fight to ...

Remembering the volunteers

The Korean War is commemorated in a flurry of films and documentaries
Oct 23, 2020 (WiC 515)

The cast for a 30-part series made in China 20 years ago to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Korean War was said to number more than 100,000 people. But the series was never broadcast on concerns that it might fan unnecessary acrimony in ...

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock

Bytedance’s TikTok faces a growing risk of shutdown in the US and UK
Jul 24, 2020 (WiC 505)

In 2017 Fujian native Zhang Yiming became obsessed with learning English. Aside from reading more English language materials himself, the 37 year-old software engineer – and founder of the tech giant Bytedance – also asked his staff to take ...

India bans Chinese apps including TikTok
Jul 3, 2020 (WiC 502)

The Chinese video sharing app TikTok almost seems made for India – a country where Bollywood films still capture the public imagination and literacy rates are often low. The app says 120 million Indians use it every month – including some ...

Cooking up entertainment

iQiyi, China’s Netflix, is looking for new ways of cashing in on content
Jun 5, 2020 (WiC 498)

Every yuan counts. That was the message in a lawsuit that iQiyi lost in a Beijing court this week, brought by one of its subscribers. He was furious that the streaming platform had charged him an extra three yuan an episode for advance showings ...

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