Headlines from China: Two China’s Biggest Games Streaming Firms DouYu and Huya Enter Into Merger Agreement

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Huya and DouYu, two China’s largest games streaming companies have entered into a merger agreement that was initiated by Tencent. Read More

TikTok is World’s Highest-Earning Non-Game App Despite U.S. and India Headwinds

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Despite losing India, a market that contributed a large part of its global downloads, and uncertainties over its fate in the U.S., ByteDance-owned short video app TikTok was still the world’s most downloaded and highest-earning non-game app in September. Read More

Headlines from China: China’s Film Market Generates $581 Million During National Day Holiday

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According to box office tracker platform Lighthouse, the Chinese film market generated a whopping sum of 3.95 billion yuan ($581 million) during the eight-day National Day Holiday, significantly tightening the year box office gap between itself and the North America market. Read More

Headlines from China: Chinese Film Industry Booms During the Country’s ‘Golden Week’

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Following the reopening of cinemas for China's eight-day National Day holidays, the Chinese mainland film industry has almost recovered to the pre-pandemic level. Read More

Headlines from China: Can Music Save China’s Satellite TV Networks?

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The third season of dance battle TV show “Street Dance of China” was live-streamed for eight hours straight on Chinese video streaming website Youku last weekend. Read More

Headlines from China: Jiang Zhangke’s Pingyao International Film Festival Unveiled Lineup

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Jiang Zhangke’s Pingyao International Film Festival Unveiled Lineup 2020 Pingyao International Film Festival is set to take place soon from Oct 10-19 in the ancient city Pingyao, located in Northwest China. The young film festival, founded by Chinese auteur Jiang Zhangke and former Venice head Marco Muller, has come to its fourth edition this year. Read More

Headlines from China: China’s National Holiday Week Nurtures Cinematic Revival

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Boosted by two new blockbusters, “My People, My Homeland” and “Jiang Ziya: Legend of Deification”, the vacation saw box office results of around 2.94 billion yuan ($433.1 million) as of Monday, close to the same period last year and twice as much as in the time period in 2018, according to movie information tracker Beacon. Read More

Headlines from China: 2 Chinese Films Hit Billion-Yuan Box Office in the First Half of National Holiday

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Two Chinese films have made 1 billion yuan (about US$147 million) each at domestic box office during the ongoing national holiday, movie-ticketing and film data platform Maoyan said Sunday. Read More

Headlines from China: China’s Domestic Fashion Weeks Aim To Spur Economy

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While international fashion weeks have gone fully digital with few physical runways, China’s domestic fashion weeks are blooming across the nation with extravagant offline ceremonies. Read More

Headlines from China: Will Chinese Films Earn Big This National Day Holiday?

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The National Day holiday is a major box-office earner for the Chinese mainland. Read More

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