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IN HER OWN VOICE
Pop megastar Li Yuchun talks with NewsChina about the changing landscape of China’s entertainment industry and fan economy, as well as her struggle to overcome years of labeling by critics and her ceaseless pursuit of self-expression
Utopia Girl
Li Ziqi, one of China’s most successful vloggers, weaves a bucolic, fairy-tale version of rural life that offers an escape for stressed-out city dwellers. In this rare interview with NewsChina, Li addresses the criticism and controversy over a success that has grown from her countryside videos into a multimillion-yuan company
Sound Revenue Streams
Peng Jiaxin, the CEO of China’s largest music service provider Tencent Music Entertainment Group, talks with NewsChina about the Chinese music industry’s bumpy beginnings and decades-long battle for paid listeners
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Reel Talent
As part of his new ambitious project, director turned producer Ning Hao aims to train promising filmmakers to better meet the growing market demands of the Chinese mainland
A Life in Free Verse
China’s literary world mourns the death of Liu Shahe, the renowned poet who composed in secret during the Cultural Revolution only to reemerge as a celebrity during China’s golden age of poetry in the 1980s. NewsChina looks back on his lifelong struggle for free expression
When China First Rocked
In her latest exhibition, veteran photographer Gao Yuan captures the blood, sweat and tears of China’s rock scene in the 1990s through intimate portraits of the people who built it