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Year in Review: 2022 on the Silver Screen
Indie hits and notable flops: Here is a roundup of big happenings in Chinese and diaspora films this year
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Tough Times for China’s Boys’ Love Lovers
How the blacklisting of one popular online forum left droves of Chinese fans of queer fan fiction without a ”home”
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Getting Mouthy: How Chinese Netizens Made Memes from Censorship
Why is the internet full of the character 口 (mouth)?
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Reform and Dialing Up: The Early Days of the Chinese Netizen
When was the term “wangmin” coined, and how did China’s cyberspace evolve from the first-generation of netizens to today?
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The Chang Trap: Why Eileen Chang’s Writing Rarely Works on the Big Screen
Why is it so hard to adapt the works of novelist Eileen Chang?
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Dealing with China's Cinema Censorship
What it takes to get Chinese film and TV to market
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Viral Week Ep. 205
Movies and liquor renamed, death by a joke, another video assault, and the day that broke Weibo—it’s Viral Week
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Flight of Fantasy
Fantasy series’ last-minute disappearance was the latest high-profile “postponement” in Chinese entertainment
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Viral Week Ep. 195
Hard-headed workers, banned eggs, Durex disgusts Weibo, and Tencent turns on the Switch—it’s Viral Week
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