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02/25/2021 08:41 AM EST
Hi, China Watchers! Please join me in welcoming your guest host for this week, Melissa Chan, a correspondent formerly based in China and now in Germany, from where she reports on transnational issues, often involving China’s influence beyond its borders from Berlin to Quito to the Amazon jungle. Over to you, Melissa.
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02/18/2021 08:30 AM EST
Good morning and welcome to a guest-hosted China Watcher! With our original watcher, David Wertime, moving over to our sister site Protocol, we ll be introducing you to a few guest writers over the following weeks that we hope will bring some new perspectives on the Beijing-Washington relationship, and the power centers in between. Allow me to introduce your first guest host: Robin Shepherd, former journalist and vice president of HFX (which runs the annual Halifax International Security Forum) and author of China vs. Democracy: The Greatest Game. Take it away, Robin. Ben Pauker, world and natio
CCTV Spring Festival Gala Features Blackface, Again
Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Feb 12, 2021
This year’s CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala, the massively popular annual variety show aired since 1983, included blackfaced dancers in a performance titled “African Song and Dance,” alongside belly dancers, flamenco performers, and women dressed as Cleopatra. The Gala has previously been criticized for similar depictions: a 2018 skit featured a Chinese woman dressed in blackface and accompanied by a monkey, proclaiming, “I love China.” At The Associated Press, Joe McDonald described
The “African Song and Dance” performance Thursday came at start [sic] of the Spring Festival Gala, one of the world’s most-watched TV programs. It included Chinese dancers in African-style costumes and dark face makeup beating drums.
One of China's leading state broadcasters is under fire for featuring dancers wearing blackface in a New Year celebration show. It's not the first time the channel has caused such controversy.