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News on the Chinese Media & Gaming

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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 ...

Changing channels

Newcomers set to shake up TV landscape in Hong Kong
Sep 18, 2015 (WiC 296)

Hong Kong’s free-to-air TV operator TVB is sometimes known locally as “CCTVB”. This is partly a mocking reference to China’s state broadcaster CCTV (as TVB – which stands for Television Broadcasts Limited – enjoys a similarly ...

The next media mogul?

Is Alibaba trying to create the Chinese Bloomberg?
Jun 12, 2015 (WiC 285)

What might China’s answer to Bloomberg look like? There have been no shortage of aspiring contenders. Wind Information has made Michael Bloomberg’s biography essential reading for its managerial staff. Great Wisdom, another data provider, ...

US senator accuses China of helping North Korea to hack Sony
Jan 9, 2015 (WiC 265)

Last month WiC reported how a leading Hong Kong hotel has become a hangout for nervy Chinese businessmen (see WiC263). But now a hostelry in Shenyang is getting headlines, after rumours that it might be hosting an even more reclusive ...

Wish you were here

Why has LeTV boss Jia Yueting been abroad for five months?
Nov 28, 2014 (WiC 262)

In 2007 Canton Properties went public on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). This was deemed important enough that when Gordon Brown opened the London Stock Exchange’s Beijing office the following year, Canton Properties’ boss was ...

Chairman’s death leaves promising film studio in limbo
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

"We can never predict the future. A man who does not plan far ahead will have problems. Always be prepared is the best policy,” Li Ming told Southern Weekend in an interview back in 2012. As prepared as Li was, he couldn’t predict his own ...

Xi lauds anti-US blogger
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

It is debacle that could have been lifted straight from Armando Iannucci’s satire about presidential politics in the United States, Veep. Only it happened in China. On October 16, Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted a forum about ...

The award goes to…

Why ‘China’s Pulitzer’ isn’t regarded as a pinnacle of achievement
Oct 31, 2014 (WiC 258)

Since the Pulitzer Prize was first established in 1917 there have been 63 occasions in which it hasn’t been awarded. A shortage of worthy winners? No. In most cases there were too many good entries. According to the rules, if a competitor in ...

Launch of a Huffington Post-like news website in Shanghai causes stir
Oct 3, 2014 (WiC 255)

The People’s Daily started out as a highly sought after publication (it sounds unlikely, we admit). But its origins lie with journals run by underground Party members in the 1940s in Northeast China, a region which was first under Japanese ...

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