entertainment
China’s Affluent Want to ‘Live Better’ Not ‘Have More’, Survey Says
In a new survey of China's mass affluent class, consumers are "becoming more fun-loving and less infatuated with having more." Read More
Experience is Key to the $498 Billion Chinese Travel Market
As Chinese tourists spend less money on shopping and more on entertainment, it's increasingly important for brands to cater to their demand for experiential travel. Read More
Chinese Film Wrap-Up: Lunar New Year Edition
In this week's recap of China film news: "50 Shades" gets blocked online, "Wolf Totem" marks a China comeback for director Jean-Jacques Annaud, and Jackie Chan has another box office win. Read More
Dalian Wanda Taps Beijing Olympics Design Talent to Fuel China’s Middle-Class Leisure Boom
The managing director of the design firm behind the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony stage tells us what it was like to work with China's biggest commercial developer on a massive entertainment project in Wuhan. Read More
WeChat Case Study: How Shanghai’s Mercedes-Benz Arena Connects With VIPs
With about 641,000 visitors a year, the massive venue is using WeChat to target specific customer demographics. Read More
China’s Music Scene Won’t Take No For An Answer
Despite the doom and gloom caused by recent music festival cancellations and downright failures, the likes of Beijing and Shanghai are keeping spirits high with a killer lineup of shows and festivals, showing that China’s music scene still has plenty of life left in it. Read More
Event Watch: Little Dragon Tales Workshop At China Institute (New York, March 3)
Produced by the electronic music group The Shanghai Restoration Project, and featuring the voices of the Yip's Canada Children's Choir, "Little Dragon Tales" will come to life on March 3 at a family workshop organized by New York's China Institute. Read More-
Hoping To Tap Booming Market, Chinese Investors Form $800 Million Film Fund
Despite restrictions on film imports and notoriously heavy-handed censorship on the part of Beijing authorities, the opportunity is clearly there in China's fast-expanding film market. Read More -
Project Aims To Take Peking Opera To Global Audience
Sun Ping, dean of the Institute of Arts at Beijing Foreign Studies University, is convinced that Peking Opera isn't more popular internationally not because of its esoteric themes and storylines, but because its meaning gets lost in translation. Read More -
France’s Fashion TV Eyes Chinese Entertainment Industry
The French media group Fashion TV (FTV) has teamed up with the Shanghai Kailing Group to build its first "French-Shanghai-style club", Fashion House. Read More
