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The film Shanghai starring Gong Li and John Cusack was a successful collaboration between China and Hollywood. But now, China wants to do more than just provide the pretty faces. Provided to China Daily |
China eyes the dream factories
The film industry in China has grown in epic proportions in recent years. As studio owners get hungry for a bigger slice of the pie, they are casting their nets further afield. Next stop? Hollywood. Liu Wei reports
Sunday talk
China's film ambitions
Last year when I was preparing for a new edition of my book Hollywood Politics and Economics, I not only updated the data, but made a major change in tone on Chinese cinema. The book was first published in 2005, when I did not have high hopes for China's film industry. Four years on, I am forecasting the day when China will catch up with the US in box-office takings.
Newsstand roundup
The man who will try to clean up BP
Bob Dudley is not one to wear his disappointment on his sleeve. Even as a kid, "Bobby" as he was then known "was completely unflappable," remembers Charles Brent, Dudley's hometown friend in southern Mississippi in the 1960s. If he tried out for a sports team and got cut, he kept his emotions in check. "Nothing got him upset," said Brent, now a neurosurgeon. "He was often on the bad end of an injustice - where someone was selected instead of him. I never saw him get angry or raise his voice. Or disappointed." Nearly four decades later Bob, no longer Bobby, displayed a similar lack of chagrin when Tony Hayward was selected to become chief executive of oil behemoth BP Plc in 2007, even though many deemed Dudley well - qualified to replace outgoing boss John Browne.
To Russia with love
'Afghan girl' cover image stirs debate
An Israeli helps put Beijing on guard
A former army commando has started a counter-terrorism school in the Chinese capital, teaching people how to get out of tight spots. Wendy Qian has the story.
Improvising a cure for English comedy in Shanghai
Tom Carter's candid camera
There is no single image that can adequately represent the diversity that is China. This is partly why Tom Carter's 638-page tome of photographs taken during his tour of the country between 2006 and 2008 works so well.
Gay upsets Bolt in 100m
World record holder loses first final in two years at Diamond League in Stockholm
Goosen leads while Woods in wilderness
Fabregas confirms he will stay at Arsenal
Asia is simply no longer a soccer cash cow
Score board
Playing by the Rules
Zhang enjoys international exposure
Game made for Aussies
The week that was
Chef's exotic localism puts Denmark on map
LAMMEFJORDEN, Denmark - On a recent afternoon on the seashore here about an hour's drive from Copenhagen, the Danish chef Ren Redzepi was up to his knees in weeds. Browsing.
Heavenly gift hasa place on menus
Smart toolshelp hearts
On a recent Monday, Helen Elzo got a call from her doctor's office. A device implanted in her heart was not functioning. She needed to go to the hospital and have it replaced.
3-D phones, without the glasses
Using radio wavesas a power source
Luxury brands give inand put their goods online
In the genteel world of luxury, companies long believed that the Web was no place for merchandising. And there was a gentleman's agreement with department stores not to siphon sales by reaching out directly to wealthy customers.
Paper for childrendefies digital craze
Performing to a rapt audience, one patron at a time
A nest in Orange County
Home is where the heart is. And for jet-setting senior executive Phoenix Zheng, home is a piece of American suburbia in China. Phyllis Zhu visits to find out more.
Getting physical
Summer program hits the right notes
The National Center for the Performing Arts is making new efforts to attract parents struggling to make their children's summer vacation both entertaining and enlightening.
Come to the Carnival
Haute cuisine in HK
Seven days
Taipei on two wheels
Want to explore the rivers, hills and dales of Taiwan's busiest city the clean green way? Michael Jen-Siu shows the way.
