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12 hours ago ago from Culture Mining

PRC film director Zhang Yimou is controversial as ever, and his films enjoy virtually guaranteed box-office success in mainland China. Here is an interesting article: "Zhang Yimou on his creative independence" by Geoff Dyer, Financial Times, 12-13 December 2009. In a taxi on the way to meet Zhang Yimou, his photo beams from the back of the driver’s seat. It is an advert for his production of Turandot at the Bird’s Nest in Beijing, the same ...

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5 hours ago ago from chinamusicradar

This site mostly concentrates on international touring artists and the domestic scene.  Sometimes it paints a difficult picture of the landscape here, which is certainly the case for these sectors, but this doesn't mean that the music industry in China is all doom and gloom.  In fact, the pop end of the industry is working very nicely for those in it, most particularly reality TV endorsements gala performances (the bizarre concept of taking ...

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The New York Times New Pipeline From Central Asia Feeds China MOSCOW With the turn of a ceremonial valve, China s president, Hu Jintao, opened a big natural gas pipeline from central Asia to China on Monday, significantly boosting China s access to the fuel and providing the first major alternative to exporting the region s gas through Russia. The Age Mercedes sees China sales up 15% in 2010 German auto maker ...

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Car Sales Surge in China

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The world's largest market for automobiles Streetscape, Hong Kong, China It comes as no great surprise that China is now the world’s largest market for automobiles, and presumably, automobile financing. After all, with more than 1.3 billion people, its population is now more than four times that of the United States. What's startling, however, is the rate at which China’s automobile sales have increased. According to ...

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Sections Scenes From the Beijing Rock Underground previous image | next image Tight pants, cool haircuts and rock music. They're commonplace, even cliché, in the United States, but they're now the icons of a complex transformation in China. The country's ever-growing consumer culture almost requires an increased sense of ...

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