1.Addressing an audience at the Hong Kong YMCA in February 1927, the writer Lu Xun (the pen name of Zhou Shuren, 1881–1936) warned that despite ten years of literary revolution and the promotion of a written vernacular language, Chinese people had still not found a voice. They were all living in what he called wushengde Zhongguo, “voiceless China.” “Youth must first transform
Concerns rise over Chinese investors
Posted : 2021-04-05 16:37
By Kim Jae-heun
Concerns are growing over TV series produced by local entertainment companies whose large shareholders are Chinese firms, after the YG Entertainment-produced Joseon Exorcist went off the air for distorting Korean history.
The supernatural history-based drama, Joseon Exorcist, was co-produced by YG Studioplex, Crave Works and Lotte Cultureworks. YG Studioplex is a TV production company jointly established by YG Entertainment and Barami Bunda in April 2017, though the entertainment agency owns 99.09 percent of the production firm s shares.
What is causing the controversy is that two Chinese firms, Shanghai Fengying Business Consultant Partnership and Tencent Mobility, are the two largest shareholders in YG Entertainment after its founder Yang Hyun-suk, and they could have played an influence in the direction of the drama to favor a Chinese perspective of history.
By Yuan Yuan · 2020-12-08 · Source: NO.50 DECEMBER 10, 2020
The science fiction film The Wandering Earth has a special screening of its 2020 version at the 33rd China Golden Rooster Awards in Xiamen, Fujian Province in southeast China, on November 28(XINHUA)
It was the annual gathering of top filmmakers in China. The masks that the participants wore and nucleic acid tests that people had to go through before joining the event served as a reminder that the event was still held in the shadows of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The Golden Rooster Awards, formerly staged once every two years, has become an annual event since this year. Different from being hosted across different cities around China in previous years, this event has chosen to settle down in Xiamen, a coastal city in Fujian Province in southeast China, for 10 continuous years starting this year. Established in 1981, the Year of the Rooster, this award has become one of the most presti