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China in House of Cards, and House of Cards in China
SPOILERS FOLLOW! The second season of Netflix’s political drama House of Cards, released in one fell relationship-straining swoop on Valentine’s Day, has a backdrop heavily laced with China-related...
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Badiucao (巴丢草): China’s House of Cards
To welcome the opening of the CPPCC and the National People’s Congress annual sessions, Badiucao has re-imagined the popular Netflix series House of Cards with a Chinese cast. “Lianghui” refers to the...
View ArticleNanjing Party Chief Sacked, Salacious Details Flow
On Thursday, Xinhua announced that former Nanjing Party Secretary and CCP Standing Committee member Yang Weize had been removed from his post, becoming the latest official to fall in Xi Jinping’s...
View ArticleNetflix in Talks to Take Content to China
At the Wall Street Journal, Lilian Lin reports that U.S.-based on demand Internet video service Netflix is looking to bring its content to China, a country that tightly controls the Internet and last...
View ArticleXi Jinping: House of Cards, Mojitos, & Chinese Dreams
On Tuesday in Seattle, President Xi Jinping delivered a policy speech to an elite group of business leaders, in which he presented a positive spin on a number of thorny issues facing the two countries;...
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