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Media & Gaming

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Wish you were here

Why has LeTV boss Jia Yueting been abroad for five months?
Nov 28, 2014 (WiC 262)

In 2007 Canton Properties went public on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). This was deemed important enough that when Gordon Brown opened the London Stock Exchange’s Beijing office the following year, Canton Properties’ boss was ...

Chairman’s death leaves promising film studio in limbo
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

"We can never predict the future. A man who does not plan far ahead will have problems. Always be prepared is the best policy,” Li Ming told Southern Weekend in an interview back in 2012. As prepared as Li was, he couldn’t predict his own ...

Xi lauds anti-US blogger
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

It is debacle that could have been lifted straight from Armando Iannucci’s satire about presidential politics in the United States, Veep. Only it happened in China. On October 16, Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted a forum about ...

The award goes to…

Why ‘China’s Pulitzer’ isn’t regarded as a pinnacle of achievement
Oct 31, 2014 (WiC 258)

Since the Pulitzer Prize was first established in 1917 there have been 63 occasions in which it hasn’t been awarded. A shortage of worthy winners? No. In most cases there were too many good entries. According to the rules, if a competitor in ...

Launch of a Huffington Post-like news website in Shanghai causes stir
Oct 3, 2014 (WiC 255)

The People’s Daily started out as a highly sought after publication (it sounds unlikely, we admit). But its origins lie with journals run by underground Party members in the 1940s in Northeast China, a region which was first under Japanese ...

A mobile app has riled Chinese newspapers
Jul 4, 2014 (WiC 244)

On May 22 – just two weeks before TIME Inc went public in New York – America’s largest publisher decided to run small ads on the covers of two of its most famous titles, TIME and Sports Illustrated. The miniature banners – sponsored by ...

Television drama

CCTV bigwig latest to be detained for graft
Jun 6, 2014 (WiC 240)

As befits an obedient state TV channel, China Central Television (CCTV) has been diligent in its coverage of much of the government’s ongoing anti-corruption drive. Come the start of this week, however, the broadcaster turned strangely ...

Is Beijing about to loosen its grip on Hollywood imports?
Apr 11, 2014 (WiC 233)

China’s movie industry looks set for a major shakeup. Han Sanping, the boss of China Film Group Corp, has just retired from the key state-owned monopoly (for more on which, see WiC231) and Dong Ping, Han’s private-sector equivalent, sold the ...

Exit, stage left

Chinese cinema’s most powerful man retires
Mar 28, 2014 (WiC 231)

At a dinner with Jeffrey Katzenberg, Han Sanping once asked the DreamWorks CEO if he was any good at poker. According to Chinese media reports, the American smiled and shook his head. That led an enthusiastic Han – head of the China Film Group ...

Losing the battle for eyeballs

CCTV coy on its ad auction results. Is Baidu the reason?
Dec 6, 2013 (WiC 219)

In November state broadcaster CCTV ran a feature targeting 45 property developers for failing to pay at least Rmb3.8 trillion ($624.1 billion) in tax between 2005 and 2012. The report – which named major players like SOHO China and Vanke as ...

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