The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party begins in Beijing on Sunday. If Xi Jinping is handed a report with some highlights on the state of China’s economy, here’s what he might read.
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Hopping zombies, ghost coworkers, and fetus-filled dumplings. These are the best Chinese-language scary movies since the turn of the millennium.
Directed by three Golden Bear-nominated Sinophone filmmakers, this anthology film proves a disappointingly tawdry fare, full of conservative messages.
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Notable China news from around the world.
Notable China news from around the world.
“We don’t want COVID tests. We want to eat,” was one of the sentences scrawled in red on a banner hung off a bridge in Beijing just days before the Party Congress. The act of protest is rare in China, a country that is notorious for its censorship, and this lonely act of defiance will probably not be repeated any time soon.
News briefing for Thursday, October 13, 2022.