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Jan 20, 2012
China’s Vicarious Democracy Online and In the News
An underpinning of democratic participation may have led to the end of the TV hit "Super Girls" (courtesy Getty Images) The recent...

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Jan 19, 2012
Hometown Superheroes: Spectacle and Samaritans take Beijing
"Tape" (dir. Li Ning) By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph A fleet of masked vigilantes are taking Beijing – and leaving a trail of public spectacle...


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Jan 18, 2012
Update on Wukan: The Protestor & The Party
Lin Zuluan, courtesy of David Gray/Reuters In the weeks since the residents of Wukan Village took the the streets to protest government...
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Jan 18, 2012
The Daily Show Takes on the Foxconn Factory in Hilarious Video
On Monday’s episode of The Daily Show host Jon Stewart presented a segment examining the working conditions of the Foxconn factory...


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Jan 17, 2012
“Foxconn is still a hard place to work”: The Struggle for Worker’s Rights Continue
"Struggle" (dir. Shu Haolun) Shenzhen’s Foxconn factory, made famous last year by a trend of worker suicides that created a global moment...


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Jan 11, 2012
The Transition Period in a post-Wukan China
Zhou Hao presents "The Transition Period" In the wake of the now-disbanded protests in Wukan, much attention has been paid to the...
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Jan 10, 2012
“Thought Control” and the Dark Side of China’s Education System
"Though I Am Gone" (dir. Hu Jie China News Watch‘s Stephen Chan, discussing a recent CCTV broadcast, reports on recent efforts made by Xi...


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Jan 4, 2012
SARFT Tightens Regulations on “Excessive Entertainment”
"If You Are The One" Courtesy of Reuters Times are hard in the world of Chinese reality TV. If You Are The One (Fei Cheng Wu Rao),...
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Jan 2, 2012
Ai Weiwei: “Documentary is Just One Of My Tools”
Discussing his approach to documentary filmmaking, China’s most notorious dissident and artist Ai Weiwei was interviewed by filmmaker and...


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Dec 30, 2011
“Occupy Wukan”–Making Sense of the Wukan Protests
Courtesy AFP/Getty Images Even as the protests in Wukan, Guangdong Province surrounding government land seizures and the death of a...


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Dec 29, 2011
The Cultural Revolution Cookbook and the Politics of Nostalgia
"The East Wind State Farm" (dir. Hu Jie) By Maya E. Rudolph The Cultural Revolution Cookbook, a recent title that draws on the legacy of...


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Dec 22, 2011
Protests in Wukan Dissolved After Weeks of Unrest
"Crime and Punishment" (dir. Zhao Liang) Protests in Guangdong Province’s Wukan Village, which began months ago in response to government...


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Dec 19, 2011
Beijing’s Ring of Garbage: Wang Jiuliang Profiled in Global Times
Wang Jiuliang focuses his camera in a Beijing landfill A recent article in the Global Times addresses the sprawling landfills surrounding...


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Dec 14, 2011
Recent Death Sparks Protests in Guangdong In Ongoing Struggle for Property Rights
"Meishi Street" (dir. Ou Ning) The plight of unexpected activists and dingzihu, those Chinese households who refuse to yield their homes...
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Dec 9, 2011
SARFT 101: The Rules of the Censorship Game
Writing for his blog chinafilmbiz, producer Robert Cain provides an insider’s guide to censorship rules and regulations according to...
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Dec 2, 2011
Kevin Lee Reports on Chinese Cinema Today for “Ebert Presents At the Movies”
Check out a video produced by dGenerate’s own Kevin Lee for Ebert Presents: At The Movies: Reporting on trends in the current Chinese...


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Dec 1, 2011
Technology and Documentary Open Discussion of China’s Unspeakable Tragedies
By Maya E. Rudolph "Karamay" (dir. Xu Xin) A tragic automobile accident in China’s Gansu Province weeks ago has ignited a national outcry...


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Nov 29, 2011
Beijing Besieged by Walmart: Development and Sustainability in the Partnership between China and Wal
"Beijing Besieged by Waste" (dir. Wang Jiuliang) An article by Orville Schelle appeared recently in The Atlantic on the increasingly...


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Nov 28, 2011
Screening China: So Long IFChina Original Studio
By Dan Edwards This article originally appeared on Dan Edwards‘s blog Screening China. Reprinted with the author’s permission. Jian Yi at...


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Nov 22, 2011
“China Rolls Out Tighter Rules on Reporting”: Journalism, Microblogging, and Documentary
"Though I Am Gone" (dir. Hu Jie) By Maya E. Rudolph The New York Times reported on November 11th that Chinese government authorities have...
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