Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu

China’s Graduate Dilemma

From SooksTV a short clip about finding a job in the capital and living prices in Hong Kong.

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Southern Weekly in conversation with Chen Daoming

Two weeks ago, Southern Weekly ran a long interview with Chen Daoming. In it, Chen talks about the bygone days of when directors actually took time to film TV series and when film-makers were not just trying to grab money.

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Second-generation rich guy Liu Yunchao releases a music video

Already mired in so much news about dating programs If You Are The One (非诚勿扰), from scandalous comments such as “I’d rather cry in a BMW car than laugh on the backseat of a bicycle” to the show’s now clean image thanks to the government-led anti-vulgarity campaign, there’s now information that former male contestants are also cashing in their fame from the show.

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Actress Tang Wei to appear in White Deer Plain?

Wang Quan’an (王全安) is the director of Apart, Together (团圆), which won the 2010 Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear for Best Screenplay. In today’s tabloid City Sun, published from Rizhao in Shandong, an article centers on the speculation that director Wang has his eye on Tang Wei (汤唯) for the female lead of White Deer Plain (白鹿原). Scenes of an explicit sexual nature had meant that the movie rights for the novel were off-limits for some years.

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Spot the newspaper that reported the Nanjing factory explosion

One paper prints a huge picture that no other does.

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Aftershock, filmed like The Banquet or The Day After Tomorrow? Decide!

Today is the opening of Feng Xiaogang’s Aftershock (唐山大地震), a tear-jerker of a movie, with the promoters are hinting that there won’t be a dry eye in the audience.

Based on the big earthquake of Tangshan in 1976, Feng’s wife Xu Fan plays a mother who has to choose which of her offsprings will live. The film is also the first i-max movie made out of the United States, and predicted to be a top box office smash.

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Bawang Group in license-sharing scandal

An interesting headline is related to the Bawang Chinese herbal shampoo scandal. The license for the product is for a product called Litao anti-hair loss shampoo (丽涛防脱洗发液), a product that had already expired, according to the State Food and Drug Administration website.

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Bar hostesses on duty in military uniforms

The CCTV reporting program that follows Network News (新闻联播), Topics in Focus (焦点访谈) recently discussed the shocking phenomenon of bar hostesses or ‘sex industry workers’ wearing military uniforms.

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When a Billion Chinese Jump by Jon Watts

The Guardian’s Jon Watts authored a book on the environment, focusing especially on China and how its realities and policies will affect the rest of the world.

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Bawang shampoo and its cancer-causing chemical

The Xinhua-run Modern Express today goes with a sensational, eyeball-grabbing front page. Jackie Chan is depicted, cartoon-style, holding a bottle of Bawang shampoo that he has endorsed for many years. Faye Wong posing next to him. What’s wrong with the shampoo? It contains dioxane (二恶烷), a cancer causing agent, which here is a black ghost with the characters ‘二恶烷’ etched on its body.

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