China Regulation of the internet in China: An explainer October 7, 2019 0 Image Credit: Free Internet by Thomas Galvez/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Lotus Ruan. A Great Firewall blocking voices from the outside. A top-down…
China The Special Couple: What film co-production tells us about the future of UK-China cultural relations August 15, 2019 0 Written by Hiu Man Chan and Matthew Hurst. Image Credit: L'Odéon by Alexandre Chassignon/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. The UK-China film co-production treaty was signed…
China Media coverage of gods in China under an atheist regime July 29, 2019 0 By Qingjiang Yao and Zhaoxi Liu. Image Credit: Photo by Noliv O/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. Although China officially follows an ideology of atheism, the number of religious…
China UK SMEs’ creative exports to China: Animation, IP and more July 24, 2019 0 Written by Hiu Man Chan. Image Credit: Sophie and Technology by Matt Cooper/Flickr; Licence: Public Domain Mark 1. While animation has become one of the fastest-growing…
Asia The global failure of cinematic soft power ‘with Chinese characteristics’ May 27, 2019 0 Written by Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park. Image Credit: At the Cinema by Blondinrikard Fröberg/Flickr, Licence CC-BY 2.0. Traditionally, imperial China deployed state Confucianism as its ultimate…
Africa The limits of Chinese interference in Africa’s media landscape October 16, 2018 0 Written by Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales. Is China trying to censor African media critical of its policies? This is the claim recently made by…
China British film has a golden opportunity in Chinese video on demand August 31, 2018 0 Written by Hiu Man Chan. Video on demand (VOD) services are big business across the world. At present, Netflix alone boasts an international audience of 130m. By…
