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A Chinese State Media Producer’s Bitter Goodbye
The CCTV building (via Getty Images) China’s state-run media, often criticized by foreign news organizations for prioritizing propaganda over news, has come under fire from a source once within its own...
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State Media Lauds ‘Five Surprising Benefits’ of Pollution, Chinese Unamused
(Getty Images) Polluted air is a fact of life for many Chinese citizens, and it’s currently smothering parts of the country — but that’s not all bad, according to one state media outlet’s...
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China’s Train Ticket Website, the Little Engine That Couldn’t
(via Getty Images) Think the Obamacare website is bad? Those griping about the much-derided launch of healthcare.gov, the website of U.S. President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, should try...
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Red Carpet Follies — CCTV New Year Gala Losing Grip on Public Imagination
For a live television event with a stunning 700 million-plus viewers, the New Year’s gala on China’s Central Television (CCTV), the country’s largest station, has surprisingly few true fans. As has...
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Looking Who is Walking (Away with U.S. Passports)
HONG KONG — On April 21, state-owned China Central Television (CCTV) ran a lengthy segment on the phenomenon of birth tourism. The numbers are staggering: According to a study cited by the report, in...
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One Uighur Man’s Journey in Two Cultures
Over the past two months, the relationship between China’s estimated 10 million Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking people, most of whom follow some form of Sunni Islam, and the majority Han population has...
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‘What’s Been Done to My Beautiful Homeland?’
Nigel Maiti, an ethnically Uighur host for Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, is a well-known and popular entertainer with more than 1 million followers on the social media site Sina Weibo. After 31 were...
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Is China Losing its ‘Last Fair Path’ to Prosperity?
From the look of things, it’s getting harder to be a cheater in China.The antifraud mechanisms used during China’s most recent annual college entrance exam, commonly known as the gaokao, have been...
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Clash of the State-Owned Titans
In a rare incidence of one Chinese state behemoth directly attacking another, China Central Television (CCTV), with access to over one billion viewers, ran a report on July 9 accusing the Bank of China...
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Why Does Everybody Hate Rui?
He may be widely reviled in his home country, but oh, what a resume: The son of an author and screenwriter; a graduate of the prestigious China Foreign Affairs University; a Yale World Fellow; and...
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