Brian Wu is a student and freelance writer based in Toronto. He likes to write about the politics and culture of contemporary China. @BrianWu25
A drama focusing on the shifting fortunes of a Chinese family beginning in the latter half of the 20th century, filled with struggle and bittersweet nostalgia, has won over audiences both young and old.
Zhang Yimou's "Snipers," which Zhang co-directed with his daughter Zhang Mo, is basically last yearโs Korean War blockbuster "The Battle at Lake Changjin" on a smaller scale โ less bombastic, but employing more or less the same formula.
Following three middle-class Beijing families and their kidsโ enthusiasm for ice hockey, Liu Hanxiangโs documentary is a meditation on the role of parents in todayโs China.
A recent book from Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell looks at how the plight of rural education may undermine Chinaโs rise.
An iconic drama that harkens back to an era when mainland-Hong Kong relations were characterized by cultural intimacy.
It sounds like the name of a frequent flyer program, but the new European initiative, โGlobal Gateway,โ seeks to compete with the BRI by creating โlinks and not dependencies.โ Can a Western โvalues-basedโ approach really hope to compete with the cold cash and hard infrastructure capacity from China?
A state-produced TV series chronicling the May Fourth Movement and the founding of the Chinese Communist Party is an unexpected critical success.
Marvel's efforts to get 'Shang-Chi' onto screens in mainland China may have just hit another snag.