The annual television extravaganza that is China Central Television's Spring Festival Gala is much derided โ some call it a โcraptacular.โ But it is one of the most-watched TV shows on the planet. This year it featured American style standup comedy for the first time and a live feed from astronauts aboard Chinaโs space station.
"It feels like a slap in the face." Runako Celina and Seron Tamerat, two of the managers of Black Livity China, react to the latest in a series of incidents of anti-Black racial insensitivity in China.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTVโs annual Spring Festival Gala (ๆฅๆ chลซnwวn) comes in for withering criticism nearly every year for poor taste, sexism, and other issues. This year is no different.
CCTV claims this yearโs Spring Festival Gala was a huge success โ I call it BS
The 2019 edition of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala โ one of the most watched shows on the planet despite its familiar schmaltz and predictability...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAhaj5sG8fc We need to talk about that Africa skit. You know the one. UPDATE: CCTV appears to have removed the skit as a standalone video...
Five hours prior to this yearโs Spring Festival Gala, the showโs director, Yang Dongsheng ๆจไธๅ, spokeย to a CCTV reporter just meters away from the main...