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Angelababy Notably Absent from Dior Show

May 22, 2017 / Entertainment Marketing /

When Christian Dior’s womenswear designer Maria Grazia Chiuri debuted her first cruise collection, themed “Dior Sauvage,” notably absent from the festivities on May 11 was the brand’s newly appointed China ambassador Angelababy. Read More

Why Today’s Chinese TV Dramas Are Insulting to Women

Apr 28, 2017 / News /

Recently, the TV drama In the Name of the People has drawn positive responses from viewers and critics alike. However, the show is not immune to criticism. In fact, the program’s depictions of women are much narrower than their fully formed, three-dimensional male counterparts. Read More

CMC Capital Partners Takes Stake in CAA, Forms China Joint Venture

Apr 18, 2017 / Money /

CMC Capital Partners will take a stake in Creative Artists Agency (CAA), and add CMC Capital Partners Chairman Li Ruigang added to CAA's board, the global management company announced Tuesday. Read More

Feminists Criticize Depiction of Women in Anti-Graft TV Show

Apr 12, 2017 / News /

Anti-corruption hit TV series In the Name of the People has won over millions of fans, but Chinese feminists are none too pleased with the show’s depiction of women. Read More

China’s Millennials Turn Anti-Graft TV Show Into Gay Fan Fiction

Apr 10, 2017 / News /

The unlikely object of fan affection is Li Dakang, the fictional middle-aged Party secretary who stands out in early episodes because of his obsession with provincial economic growth. Read More

Lawyer Sues Beijing TV for Making Fun of Henan Province

Feb 9, 2017 / Legal /

Henan in central China is the butt of everyone’s jokes. Others around the country look down on Henan as the home of liars, lunatics, and thieves who will even steal the covers off manholes. Now, one Henanese lawyer has had enough. Read More

The Shallow, Implausible Women Flooding Chinese TV Dramas

Feb 9, 2017 / News /

While a whole host of "Mary Sues" remains confined to the web in America, across the Pacific they are making the leap from internet fan fiction communities to Chinese TV and cinema screens — and viewers are lapping it up. Read More

US Football Popularity Peaks in China as Super Bowl Watched by Record 7.5M Viewers

Feb 8, 2017 / News /

Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing's Super Bowl commercial for the popular empire-building video game Evony happened to cause a bigger sensation than the game itself on Chinese media. Read More

Lip-Syncing, Sexism Dominate Spring Festival Gala Criticism

Jan 28, 2017 / News /

The world’s most watched broadcast has been losing viewers for years, and the 2017 edition didn’t win any back. Year in year out, the Spring Festival Gala hosted by China’s state broadcaster CCTV is a chance for the country’s ruling Communist Party to stoke patriotic sentiment, praise ethnic unity, and flex military muscle. It’s also Read More

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