Opinion
November-30-2011
- Culture is serious business, not business
- Culture may need capital, but capitalized culture may not create cultural power.
November-28-2011
- Tintin movie: nostalgia may anger hardcore fans
- Hardcore fans will inevitably be angry with the 3D "Tintin" film adaption as some changes are too big to swallow.
November-25-2011
- Language hegemony: It's shengren, stupid!
- If you are an American or European, chances are you've never heard about shengren, minzhu and wenming. If one day you promote them, you might even be accused of cultural treason. That's because they are Chinese concepts.
November-17-2011
- Profitable short films
- As short films become more attractive to netizens, many companies are starting to reap the benefit.
November-14-2011
- Protect private bookstores
- Whether private bookstores can survive the increasingly severe competition in the market, when more than 10,000 private bookstores have collapsed in the past four years, is becoming a pressing issue for those that remain.
November-11-2011
- Cultural cross-pollination makes Shanghai what it is
- Shanghai's distinct culture, or haipai wenhua as we know it, is a product of more than a century of blending of different cultures.
November-7-2011
- Changing the face of China
- China's cultural progress must start small and think big.
November-7-2011
- Old bulls, tender grass tough to stomach
- Edison Chen is back in the news, for all the wrong reasons.
November-2-2011
- Chinese TV must bear social responsibility
- The government's new entertainment restrictions may not be enough to balance the relationship between profit and social responsibility. However, they are a step in the right direction.
October-31-2011
- Three pairs of relations in cultural development
- With the further development of economic and political reforms, China's cultural institutions still need to be modernized.
