With “3 x 10 billion” Open Platform, Tencent is Transforming into a Big Content Company

 /  News  / 
Tencent announced its ambition to transition from being a tech company to a “new tech + big content” company at the seventh annual Tencent Global Partners Conference held in Chengdu this week. Read More

Film as Soft Power and Hard Currency: The Sino-Hollywood Courtship

 /  China Film Insiders  / 
The old global hierarchies of developed and developing countries have been destabilized as emerging powers such as China compete with the reigning power, the United States, for global influence, and the European Union struggles to keep it together. Read More

LeEco’s Listed Arm Extends Trading Halt for Restructuring Plan

 /  News  / 
Leshi Internet Information & Technology Corp., the listed arm of embattled tech giant LeEco, extended its share-trading halt after a six-month suspension, citing uncertainties in a restructuring plan. Read More

Behind The Guggenheim’s “Turn it on: China on Film”: An Interview with Wang Fen and Ai Weiwei

 /  People  / 
If what you learned about China through newspapers confuses you, how about relearning it through art and cinema? Read More

Ancient City Seeks to Host China’s Sundance

 /  News  / 
Pingyao, a UNESCO World Heritage site, hopes to keep tourists coming with Jia Zhangke's new international film festival. Read More

Building the Industry Behind China’s Unbelievable TV Shows

 /  Opinion  / 
China’s television industry is a billion-dollar business, especially with the explosive growth of online streaming sites. Read More

Please Allow Me to Dislike ‘Wolf Warriors II’

 /  Opinion  / 
Last week a prominent Chinese film critic was slammed on social media for daring to criticize box office smash hit “Wolf Warrior II”, but what exactly was her critique? Read More

Red Apollo Launches Distribution Company Saga Films To Handle Movie Rights In China

 /  News  / 
China movie distributor and aggregator Red Apollo has locked in its first international partnership by launching an independent sales, distribution and acquisition agent for the China and Pan-Asia markets. Read More

How Blockbuster War Movies Capture China’s Changing Nationalism

 /  Opinion  / 
Now the country’s highest-grossing film ever, ‘Wolf Warrior 2’ merges Hollywood-style thrills with state-sanctioned patriotism. Read More

Film Review: ‘Have a Nice Day’

 /  Reviews  / 
Here in America we’re lucky to be able to see this unvarnished look at a side of China so seldom revealed, the underbelly last on display on film in Jia Zhangke’s brilliant “A Touch of Sin,” a cinematic cousin to this animated gem. Read More

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