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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 textThe pace of urbanization in contemporary China is nothing short of dizzying. Seventy y

Send us a textLured by a potentially large and lucrative market, major theater productions are incre

Send us a textChildren’s entertainment is a growing industry in China, with many opportunities for f

Send us a textThis week on the Middle Earth Podcast, Aladin sits down over a pint with Sun Yao (孙遥),

Send us a textPodcasting is rapidly becoming the next boom industry in China, with approximately 80

Send us a textLive art is one of the few mediums that hasn’t been radically transformed by the digit

Send us a textVoices from China’s large but marginalized LGBTQ and feminist communities are increasi

Send us a textClubs and live performances featuring international music started taking off in China

Send us a textThe stark cultural differences between China and the West are frequently identified as

Send us a textChina has found success in exporting domestic technology and consumer goods. However,

Send us a textBefore the Beijing Olympics, foreign media groups seeking to sell or co-produce scienc

Send us a textVirtual reality (VR) is a new medium that many a technology guru has predicted will re

Send us a textMaking a feature film can be a long and painful process — especially when you’re shoot

Send us a textIn case traveling to the nearest Chinese temple may be a bit inconvenient, modern-day

Send us a textWhen prodded to think about documentaries at all, most people imagine features films t

Send us a text China’s video-game industry is a hugely popular business in a nation where over half

Send us a textUntil the 1990s, Hollywood movies were making the vast majority of their revenue in En

Send us a textAnthony Kuhn, who works at NPR, has been working on how China is using its soft power,

Send us a textThis is the second part of a two-part series about how the internet changed the way to

Send us a textChina has only 55% internet penetration, but almost every person online is using a sma