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Middle Earth - China’s cultural industry podcast

Your source of insight into China's culture industry: Hear from people creating and producing conten

Episodes

Total: 120

Send us a textThanks to its rich history, China’s has plenty of artifacts that are being sold and ex

Send us a textAfter being underground for decades, the Chinese rap scene got a sudden boost in 2017

Send us a textC-Dramas have certainly changed over the years as the competitions grew fierce for eye

Send us a textWith 400 million fans watching over 5000 professional team competing over many games,

Send us a textChina has become the biggest film’s market in the world after Covid-19, with 82,000 sc

Send us a textMusic festivals have only been around for two decades in China, but have increased exp

Send us a textChina’s video game industry is huge, but most of the games are made for the mass marke

Send us a textAs China’s cultural market becomes more and more competitive, some content producers a

Send us a textChinese literature is generating an increasing amount of interest overseas. More and m

Send us a textIf China has some issues exporting its music & film, did you know that video games

Send us a textASCENSION has been nominated for an Academy Award in the feature documentary category.

Send us a text At the intersection of KOLs and metaverse lies the niche world of “virtual idols”—ani

Send us a textThe 2022 Winter Olympics is about to start in Beijing, with around 2900 athletes and p

Send us a textFinishing our “Dark Series” on China’s guilty pleasures, we tackle gambling, one of th

Send us a textIn this special episode, we review our top 5 stories from this past year, and make a f

Send us a text A mix between the boardgame Cluedo and LARP (live action role-playing), jubensha is t

Send us a textIllegal drug usage among China’s adult population is one of the lowest in the world: 0

Send us a textChina had just 25 museums in 1949, and around 350 at the start of the reform era in 19

Send us a textShort-video app Quibi failed in just six months after launching in the US, so it’s too

Send us a text Pornography has been banned in China since 1949. Yet 80 percent of young men (18 – 29