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News on the Chinese Media & Gaming

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Animation firm hopes five hamsters will conquer China
Oct 5, 2012 (WiC 167)

Walt Disney came up with Mickey Mouse. In the 1970s the Japanese blessed us all with the invention of Hello Kitty. But China is still to unleash an iconic cartoon character of its own. Could the solution be five, Mandarin-speaking ...

Jiang: what American dream?

Why Focus Media’s boss no longer wants to be listed in New York
Aug 24, 2012 (WiC 161)

A little over 30 years ago, a new term began to be murmured around company boardrooms – the leveraged buyout, or LBO. It came courtesy of investor groups who were borrowing money from banks and swooping on low stock market prices to take ...

People watching

State-owned newspaper IPO surges
Apr 30, 2012 (WiC 147)

Like many unlikely stories from the media world, this one began with Rupert Murdoch. As told by Bruce Dover in Rupert Murdoch’s China Adventures, the grizzled press baron was desperate to enter the Chinese market. One of his ...

Hold the front page

Fancy buying shares in the Party’s media arm?
Jan 20, 2012 (WiC 135)

Although it is unquestionably a challenge to find something fresh to say about China’s annual parliamentary meeting – the National People’s Congress – the Wall Street Journal neverthless wondered whether the state-run People’s Daily ...

Roll the credits

DreamWorks wants to build on Panda profits
Dec 2, 2011 (WiC 131)

Jeffrey Katzenberg and his team at DreamWorks have already shown that they are willing to travel to China in search of inspiration. For their blockbuster franchise Kung Fu Panda, they visited the panda breeding centre in Chengdu, ...

A new focus of attention

Stock plunges as short-seller Muddy Waters finds new target
Nov 25, 2011 (WiC 130)

Stand in a lobby waiting for a lift in Hong Kong (and many other Chinese cities) and your eyes are likely to be drawn to a small TV screen. It will probably be showing short clips and movie trailers, accompanied by ads for slimming pills or a new ...

Galloping ahead

Li Ming is cashing-in on China’s cinema boom
Jul 15, 2011 (WiC 115)

Here’s a stat likely to resonate with Hollywood studio execs: China is adding new cinemas at the pace of three screens a day, faster than any other market. Three years ago it had just 1,500 screens but 20,000 are expected to be operating by ...

Hu is right about cadmium?

Spat between state media and nation’s most famed journalist
Mar 4, 2011 (WiC 97)

Legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa would have been rather impressed by the conflicting points of view. His pioneering 1950 film Rashomon depicted a murder from four different perspectives – leaving the audience in some doubt ...

Blossoming production

Hunan TV’s deal with Qinghai channel signals consolidation ahead
Jun 25, 2010 (WiC 66)

China’s latest TV hit Blossoming Flowers has been causing a stir. Some viewers seem to think its contestants have been blossoming a little too quickly. The reality TV contest, which features girls and young women, has come in for ...

No longer black and white

Newspaper closure shocks the domestic media industry
Oct 30, 2009 (WiC 36)

In the history of men’s fashion, a very small chapter should be devoted to Don Johnson’s contribution to the sock. Johnson’s Miami Vice character Sonny Crockett famously eschewed the footwear altogether, starting a minor 1980s trend in ...

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