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Entertainment

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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 ...

Making a major splash

Steven Chow comedy film is the big holiday period hit
Feb 12, 2016 (WiC 313)

A great TV series isn’t always hit-movie material. The recent reboot of The X-Files (now airing on TV for a 10th season), may have stoked excitement among fans from the video-tape era. Nevertheless both feature films of the iconic ...

Kung Fu Panda sequel has it all – except an ideal China release date?
Feb 5, 2016 (WiC 312)

Kung Fu Panda 2 (released in 2011) ended with a surprise: the eponymous panda Po (voiced by Jack Black) wasn’t an orphan after all. So many in the audience may have guessed that when the third instalment of the franchise came along, it ...

Does Marco Polo drama move Netflix a step closer to China?
Jan 29, 2016 (WiC 311)

Netflix this month agreed with The Weinstein Company to renew the big-budget TV show Marco Polo for a second 10-episode season. The move is further evidence of global media firms’ growing interest in China-related content. In its first ...

Will the Chinese be as keen on the new Star Wars movie as rest of the world?
Jan 15, 2016 (WiC 309)

The anticipation for the latest instalment of Star Wars was so great last month that a church in Berlin planned a Star Wars-themed Sunday service, while the airport in Stuttgart encouraged employees to dress as their favourite characters. In the ...

The good fellas

Rare gangster movie reveals the changing face of Beijing’s underworld
Jan 8, 2016 (WiC 308)

The propaganda photo was designed to depict the post-1949 fate of Chinese gangsters. In it, an 80 year-old man mopped the street in Shanghai. He was Huang Jinrong, the city’s most senior mafia boss, a man who had once ruled the Bund. When ...

Legendary viewing figures

Sun Li TV drama gets watched over 10 billion times online
Jan 8, 2016 (WiC 308)

In 2011, The Legend of Zhen Huan premiered on Anhui and Dragon Satellite TV. Based on Liu Lianzi’s novel of the same title, the historical drama centred around the politics of the palace during the Qing Dynasty. Thanks to a deft script ...

Box office heist

Why the remake of Hollywood cult classic opened in China 3 weeks before US
Dec 11, 2015 (WiC 307)

Asia has given Hollywood some spectacular remakes – The Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven, Infernal Affairs became The Departed. Now comes the $120 million-budgeted remake of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 ...

The Martian conquest

Ridley Scott movie becomes latest moneymaker with a pro-China storyline
Dec 4, 2015 (WiC 306)

China’s space programme has made remarkable advances in a short period of time – in fact, the China National Space Agency wants to have a permanently manned space station by 2020 and likewise send an astronaut to the moon. But in ...

Latest Hunger Games movie proves big hit in Beijing
Nov 27, 2015 (WiC 305)

A true measure of success for international celebrities in China is when they are bestowed with an affectionate nickname. Jennifer Lawrence, beloved for her portrayal of freedom fighter Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games series, is popularly ...

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