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‘The Breaking Ice’: A portrait of angst and ennui among Chinese youth
Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen relies heavily on symbolism in his first China-set feature.
Chinese gaming giant miHoYo wants to avoid Apple’s 30% revenue cut. Can it succeed?
The Chinese developer behind juggernaut mobile game Genshin Impact has tried — and failed — twice to create its own micropayment system for iPhone users. But this might also herald future China trouble for Apple.
How censorship changed the landscape of China’s queer audio dramas
Censorship poses significant challenges for ‘boy’s love’ audio drama in China, but the subculture has proved to be resilient and adaptive.
China to double the size of Tiangong space station
China just offered international partners the chance to participate in its lunar programs. And yesterday, it announced plans to expand Tiangong, its space station that was completed in 2022 and is currently home to three astronauts.
Long prison sentence for book-loving Uyghur who tried to preserve history and culture for kids
In January 2018, China sentenced writer, critic, and educator Yalqun Rozi to 15 years in prison for “splittism” and “extremist ideas.”
How China’s tobacco monopoly also has ensured that China keeps smoking
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by journalists Jason McLure and Jude Chan, who worked on a fascinating expose of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration — and how it has managed to be both the biggest seller of tobacco in the world and also the effective regulator of tobacco laws in China.
The lessons to be learned from Edgar Snow’s ‘Red Star Over China’
“Red Star Over China” was a massive coup for the young American journalist Edgar Snow. The book is still a gripping read, but it is also an abject lesson in the pitfalls of access in China.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine lit a fire under China’s transition to green energy
While Beijing returned to coal to mitigate short term tight supplies and fluctuating energy prices, the conflict in Europe drove China toward a long-term commitment to self-sustaining renewables.
Go player Zhan Ying wins ‘Goddess’ beauty competition
From Go player to internet sensation, Zhan Ying has risen to livestreaming stardom in China.
Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway opens in Indonesia after cost overruns and delays
Mostly funded by Beijing and built by Chinese engineers, Indonesia’s first high-speed railway line opened on October 2. The first passengers were delighted, but there have also been controversies, and the project was completed several years late, and at a cost of $7.2 billion, more than a billion over budget.
China invites the world to join its mission to explore the Moon
China is now accepting bids to join Chang’e-8 (CE-8), the country’s lunar exploration mission. It’s both space diplomacy and China’s latest push to become a leading space power at a time when countries are racing to land on the Moon.
Lessons from the black box of Chinese politics
We know almost nothing about how the senior leadership of the Communist Party makes decisions, but that does not stop wild speculation in the media about factional fighting and even attempts to overthrow Xi Jinping. Scholar Wu Guoguang lays out how we should think about the information vacuum, translated and introduced by the eminent Sinologist Geremie R. Barmé.
China brings Syria back on to the world stage with a red carpet welcome
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad just returned from a visit to China, where Xi Jinping pledged to assist in rebuilding Syria’s economy and called on the West to lift sanctions on Syria while Assad defended Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang.
U.S. aims to end reliance on China for minerals, but environmentalists block mining on American soil
America’s transition to green energy needs materials such as copper, lithium, and nickel. But mining them pollutes the environment. Senators heard Biden administration officials and mining industry representatives hash out the ways forward in testimony in Congress.
The China Agenda for October 1–8 — Golden Week and China-Germany Finance Dialogue
The key events this week are the China-Germany Finance Dialogue and the ongoing Asian Games.
‘Ill-gotten gains’ — Phrase of the Week
China’s latest food safety scandal is about companies profiting from unhealthy ready-made meals in schools. And there’s a phrase for that.
‘The Chinese want to make sure Taiwan’s pilots are stressed out’
The latest military exercises and gray-zone warfare around Taiwan come at a time of high political importance for China, the U.S., and Taiwan, and Beijing is not messing around.
Outrage at China’s life sentence for Uyghur folklore scholar Rahile Dawut
The renowned Uyghur anthropologist Rahile Dawut disappeared in 2017 and was convicted of “splittism.” Confirmation that her appeal was rejected means she’ll likely spend the rest of her life in a Chinese prison.
The eclectic, anti-mainstream, surprisingly popular music of Dao Lang
Dao Lang’s latest studio album, “There Are Few Folk Songs,” with its incorporation of multiethnic instruments and strange rhythms, has touched a nerve among the Chinese public. Listen very carefully and you just might hear the cracks forming in China’s pop culture edifice.
The Philadelphia Orchestra commemorates the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking China tour
This week on Sinica, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1950 concert tour of China by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1973, Kaiser chats with Matías Tarnopolsky, Alison Friedman, and Wu Fei about the legacy of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s China tour, their continuing connection with China, and their concert performances in Chapel Hill, performed to the day on the two closing nights of that historic tour 50 years ago.
