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The 2017 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, filmed on Monday in Shanghai, was full of milestones: it was the first time it was held outside the US and Europe and had the most diverse runway ever with a record number of Chinese models (eight in ...
What would you do if you had $100 billion at your disposal? Jeff Bezos looks like the person who might have to answer that question first. The Amazon founder and chief executive was named by Forbes as the world’s richest man last month. With ...
In late 2015 a low budget TV series that cost just Rmb20 million ($3 million) to make went on to become a hit show on China’s internet. Go Princess Go told the unlikely story of a modern-day playboy who suddenly finds himself reborn ...
Han Han’s blog was at its most popular eight years ago when it was getting over 100 million views. It has been largely dormant since then. In fact, the last time the writer-filmmaker updated his blog – in which he commonly lashed out at ...
When The Last Emperor was released in 1987, it was reckoned to be one of the most ‘cosmopolitan’ movies of the era. Produced by an English studio, the Oscar-winning picture was directed by Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci and ...
First, the good news: the eight-day long National Day holiday, a prime moviegoing season, set a new record. Its box office haul reached almost Rmb3 billion ($450 million), doubling last year’s figures. Now the bad: almost all the films that ...
When actor Wang Baoqiang announced on Sina Weibo that he was divorcing his wife in August 2016 – after accusing her of cheating on him with his agent – the news quickly went viral. Within days, the post was viewed over three billion times and ...
Gangster movies don’t normally get a showing at Chinese cinemas given that mafia bosses (along with ghosts) were declared a thing of the past when the Communist Party took power 1949 (both things violated its ideological principles: the first ...
One of the things that made Feng Xiaogang so successful in China was that unlike other filmmakers of his generation – such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou – he rarely waded into politics. Feng first struck gold in 1997 with a comedy called ...
At last weekend’s Emmy Awards many of the shows that took home the biggest prizes were female-centric series like The Handmaid’s Tale, Big Little Lies, and Veep. “It’s been an incredible year for women in ...