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New KAWS clothing line sets Chinese fans on a stampede
Jun 14, 2019 (WiC 456)

Originally a graffiti artist, Brian Donnelly, known professionally as KAWS, first painted his Instagram-friendly graphic cartoon characters on hoardings, bus stops and photo booths. Soon the distinctive characters were turning up on toys, street ...

A Hollywood comeback for Chinese star Zhang Ziyi
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

When Godzilla was rebooted in 2014, it was the first entry in Legendary Entertainment’s newly minted ‘MonsterVerse’ – that is to say the franchise that also features King Kong (the fictional giant ape got his own big screen ...

Public anger over revelation a gangster dodged punishment
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

In 2018 Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a dahei or ‘strike black’ campaign against gangs and organised crime. It was the natural corollary to his long-running anti-corruption campaign and he ordered his investigators in ...

A travel show about four celebrity friends is Tencent’s latest online sensation
May 31, 2019 (WiC 454)

Women going on road trips is a movie genre that made its greatest stir in the 1991 classic Thelma and Louise, when the protagonists – played by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon – drive off a cliff in the final scene. More generally, ...

Korean war movies ‘in’ – Game of Thrones and a US college drama ‘out’
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

The world watched with baited-breath this week as an eight-year odyssey drew to a close and it finally became clear who had won the Iron Throne of Westeros. Well, that is, the world apart from China. There, fans of Game of Thrones ...

All Wikipedia banned in China
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has many entries on the subject of censorship in China. There is a page about the Great Firewall – the colloquial name for the virtual barrier that controls access on the Chinese internet. There is even a ...

Ever heard of ‘yuezi’? It’s China’s fastest-growing mothercare industry
May 17, 2019 (WiC 452)

Last Wednesday the world got its first glimpse of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor – Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s first child. Swaddled in a cream blanket and wearing a white cap – the baby boy slept through his first three-minute ...

Are tiger parents and elite education killing dialects?
May 3, 2019 (WiC 450)

If you were trying to come up with a Chinese term that is known around the world, what would be a prime candidate? ‘Kung fu’, perhaps, which is so well known that it needs no description. For food lovers another might be be ‘dim sum’, the ...

Megastar Fan Bingbing seeks comeback after terrible 2018
Apr 12, 2019 (WiC 448)

Since the tax evasion scandal that saw Fan Bingbing and her related companies pay over Rmb833 million ($123.97 million) in fines, the actress has kept a low profile. But at the end of March there were signs that Fan is finally breaking ...

China has a problem with students using ‘smart’ pills
Apr 5, 2019 (WiC 447)

At least 23 million children in China suffer from some kind of attention deficit disorder (ADD). But many more than that take medication designed to improve the concentration of ADD sufferers. That’s because many parents believe that these ...

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