Middle Earth - China’s cultural industry Podcast
1) #80 Contemporary art in Greater China : the biggest market in the world
Greater China is now the biggest art-market in the world, but thousands of galleries in the middle kingdom have closed up, while many artists are struggling to make a living. How are gallery curators,...Show More
2) #72 Film Distribution: How to Succeed at China’s Box Office
China has become the biggest film’s market in the world after Covid-19, with 82,000 screens, so distributing a movie in Chinese cinemas seems like it would be an easy task. But with dozens of films co...Show More
3) #71 China’s Music Festivals
Music festivals have only been around for two decades in China, but have increased exponentially—even leading some to worry about a bubble—until the Covid-19 outbreak. Since then, how has the industry...Show More
4) #70 China’s Indie Games (Part 2 – China’s video game industry)
China’s video game industry is huge, but most of the games are made for the mass market of online mobile players. But what about the niche market of indie games, often focused more on single player st...Show More
5) #69 The Seducing Power of IPs
As China’s cultural market becomes more and more competitive, some content producers are looking for the silver bullet to avoid failure: IP. What does IP mean in the Chinese market, and what’s the bes...Show More
6) #68 Generations of Voices in Chinese Literature
Chinese literature is generating an increasing amount of interest overseas. More and more books are getting translated, while Chinese authors are winning international prizes. Yet are the authors and ...Show More
7) #67 Creating Games for the West (Part 1 – China’s video game industry)
If China has some issues exporting its music & film, did you know that video games often meet success on the international market? What kind of games meet success abroad, what kind of strategy Chinese...Show More
8) (Bonus episode) ASCENSION: Discussion with Director Jessica Kingdon
ASCENSION has been nominated for an Academy Award in the feature documentary category. The film is a portrait of China’s industrial supply chain and its different social ladders.It is advised to watc...Show More
9) #66 The New Reality of Virtual Idols in a Meta World
At the intersection of KOLs and metaverse lies the niche world of “virtual idols”—animated characters created for the purpose of becoming celebrities. Started in Japan in the 1980s, virtual idols have...Show More
10) #65 China’s winter sports market : How to get 300 million snow enthusiasts?
The 2022 Winter Olympics is about to start in Beijing, with around 2900 athletes and possibly zero spectators, yet the country now boasts 300 million winter sports enthusiasts. How did China’s winter ...Show More
#65 China’s winter sports market : How to get 300 million snow enthusiasts?
31:32 | Jan 30th, 2022