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Liaoning’s lord of laughter

Why Zhao Benshan’s tour comfortably beats the ballet in ticket sales
Mar 13, 2009 (WiC 6)

Humour, as it turns out, can be a lifesaver. A recent study published by the University of Maryland Medical Centre suggests that people less inclined to laugh in a variety of situations could be 40% more likely to contract heart disease later in ...

American hit Ugly Betty gets China makeover
Mar 6, 2009 (WiC 5)

When media mogul Rupert Murdoch set out to conquer the Chinese satellite television market, he brought America’s most popular judge, Judge Judy, to Chinese screens. The top-rated courtroom show was called TV Court. Since then, television ...

The cutting room

Censors say no to Jackie Chan’s latest movie
Feb 27, 2009 (WiC 4)

The promotional blurb for Jackie Chan’s latest film Shinjuku Incident promises studio audiences that they will see a side of the Hong Kong film star never seen before. It turns out that this undiscovered corner of Chan’s character will ...

Lights, cameras… dollars

The nation’s film industry sets new records
Feb 20, 2009 (WiC 3)

It is certainly no coincidence that the Golden Age of Hollywood overlapped with the Great Depression in the 1930s. The movie industry thrives on escapism (look no further than Bollywood). The perceived wisdom is that depressed audiences go to the ...

Migrant workers

China’s talents head for Hong Kong
Feb 20, 2009 (WiC 3)

When internationally-acclaimed movie star Gong Li applied for Singaporean citizenship in August 2008, she should have been better prepared for the furious backlash that followed. As news leaked that Gong, whose husband is Singaporean, was seeking ...

Socialism is Great!

A new book offers timely insights into China in the 1980s
Feb 13, 2009 (WiC 2)

Were you aware that China’s children know the novel Oliver Twist as ‘The Orphan in the Foggy Capital’ – such is its title when translated into Chinese. This, and a host of other interesting material, anecdote and history are all good ...

Cautioned about lust

The somewhat cautionary tale of actress Tang Wei
Feb 13, 2009 (WiC 2)

Oscar-winning director, Lee Ang’s 2007 movie Lust Caution was considered a masterpiece by many devotees of modern Chinese cinema. But in China it had to have seven minutes of sex scenes deleted before it could be aired on the ...

Meet China’s richest novelist
Feb 6, 2009 (WiC 1)

The latest addition to China’s thirty centuries of literary tradition sports a tousled fringe and a taste for the type of clothing accessory once favoured by US diva Madonna. But 25 year-old Guo Jingming is also China’s richest author for the ...

More than just a record-breaking movie, Red Cliff rebrands China for the West
Feb 6, 2009 (WiC 1)

To this day the term Trojan Horse resonates with most Europeans and Americans. Generations of schoolchildren in the West have grown up hearing of the Trojan War, and how Troy was defeated thanks to a wooden horse. What is less well known is that ...

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