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News on the Chinese Media & Gaming

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No more tittle tattle

State censor extends internet crackdown to celebrity gossip outlets
Jun 16, 2017 (WiC 370)

He was the first to report the budding romance between actress Zhang Ziyi and now-husband Wang Feng. He also caught actor Wen Zhang cheating on his wife on camera. More recently, he published some damning evidence of actress Bai Baihe engaging in ...

Web of controls

China tightens rules on internet news
May 26, 2017 (WiC 367)

‘Fake News’ became a defining feature of the US presidential election last year. One particularly bizarre story alleged that Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager John Podesta were running a child pornography ring out of a Washington pizza ...

The next chapter

China’s leading online publisher pushes ahead with e-books
Mar 10, 2017 (WiC 357)

Two of China’s ‘Four Great Inventions’ pertain to the written word: the creation of paper, and the advent of printing. But in the modern day, there have been concerns that the Chinese are losing interest in literature, something that ...

China Film’s strong stock market debut
Aug 19, 2016 (WiC 336)

The trailer for the much-anticipated Zhang Yimou film The Great Wall uses 3D to exaggerate the height of China’s best known structure. That seems appropriate as the film’s producer and distributor China Film Group has been scaling ...

Toeing the Party line

China’s journalists are going through tough times
Jul 8, 2016 (WiC 332)

The TV series Heaven Cannot Abide Weak Women tells the story of a female journalist at a regional newspaper. It begins in the present day with the surprise announcement that an editor is being questioned by China’s anti-graft ...

Cash for questions

New Chinese app looks to profit from a thirst for knowledge
Jun 10, 2016 (WiC 328)

The Encyclopaedia Britannica was one of the world’s most successful attempts to monetise knowledge. The encyclopaedia started out in 1768 as an Edinburgh-based weekly under the pseudonym “A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland”. Later it ...

LeEco mounts challenge to the BAT tech triumvirate
May 20, 2016 (WiC 325)

Taking potshots at Apple is nothing new. Last October Elon Musk took his turn, calling the world’s most valuable tech firm a “graveyard” for Tesla staff. “If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple,” he told a German ...

Wishing on a star

Media firm bets big on Fan Bingbing by buying her company
Apr 29, 2016 (WiC 322)

Forbes magazine famously collates an annual list of the highest paid Hollywood actors and actresses. But last year it decided to broaden the rankings beyond America’s shores. The names of the best-remunerated stars weren’t radically ...

A Guangdong newspaper falls foul of the Party line, as does a tycoon
Mar 4, 2016 (WiC 315)

Located furthermost from the political capital of imperial China, Guangdong has traditionally been an area where China’s rulers have had least control. As such, the southern province has long been a cradle of more independent thought, and often ...

China’s internet anchors prove controversial
Feb 12, 2016 (WiC 313)

In 2007, 22 year-old graduate called Zhang Xiaoyu from Beihua University became a national celebrity. Why? She posed nude on artists’ websites. In 2008 the number of searches on Baidu for photos of Zhang averaged 650,000 a day. Zhang was ...

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