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Nickelodeon Takes Ni Hao, Kai-Lan to China in New Special
Preschoolers’ passports will be stamped to join Kai-lan on an overseas adventure in the new hour-long Ni Hao, Kai-lan special, “Kai-lan’s Great Trip to China,” premiering Friday, Aug. 14, at 10:00 a.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon. The special takes Kai-lan, Yeye and friends on a trip to China to visit Kai-lan’s great aunt and attend the [...]
Continue reading...China : Keep Our Values, Lose our Video Games
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Confucius’ Golden Rule teaches us to do to others things that we want to be done to us. The Chinese Government intends to enforce this rule with an iron hand, and it will make sure that the citizens will not break it… not even in video games. Just this Monday, China’s Ministry of Culture has announced [...]
Continue reading...The Return of Astro Boy
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Same with Mickey Mouse’s timeless fame, there is a cartoon character or should I say, a robot, who is coming back to life again! Few people born in the 1980s would fall short of recognizing the small and mighty figure of a robot boy soaring through the sky. There is no one but Astro Boy. I, [...]
Continue reading...China Bans Virtual Economies – The Implications
Monday, July 6, 2009
CNN reports that China has set new rules regarding the use of virtual currencies in commercial and free virtual worlds. So while the news is still relatively new, we will try to dissect the implications of such a move. First in order should be the details of the China government announcement. Accordingly, cash or currencies located [...]
Continue reading...Hello Kitty the Philanthropist
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
More or less, we have an idea how popular the cartoon character Hello Kitty is. Since we can’t really gauge this popularity quantitatively without delving into much boring statistics and table graphs, maybe the fairer question to ask is: “How useful is this popularity of Hello Kitty is to people and in popular culture?” For the few [...]
Continue reading...NBA’s Yao Ming dubs for Chinese animated movie, The Magic Aster
Monday, June 8, 2009
Yao Ming, the superstar center of the Houston Rockets for the National Basketball Association (NBA) is set to appear in the voicing credits of an upcoming Chinese cartoon animation movie, The Magic Aster. Yao Ming will play the role of the father of the protagonist of the film. It revolves around the narrative of good [...]
Continue reading...SpongeBob SquarePants launches new website in China
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
In celebration of its tenth anniversary this year, the popular cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants reaffirms its presence in China through a new Chinese-language website this weekend to coincide with Children’s Day in China and the return of the show to Chinese TV, as reported by Variety. SpongeBob SquarePants is popularly known in China as “Haimianbaobao” and [...]
Continue reading...China’s Pleasant Goat and Big Bad Wolf gets Sequel
Monday, June 1, 2009
With the box-office success of China’s 3D cartoon animation full-length feature film Pleasant Goat and Big Bad Wolf, discussions for a sequel are now heating up. The producers of the film Shanghai Media Group are now hard at work at trying to give a sequel for the loyal fan base brought forward by the film. [...]
Continue reading...Early Animation in China
Friday, April 24, 2009
While most of the attention on animation in the Asian scene is attributed to the anime and the influence of Japan on global popular culture, Japanese animation is not the sole proprietor of Asian animation. Similarly staking its claim in the industry are works from China, which has a long history of art sensibilities in [...]
Continue reading...China Animation Properties Not Hot in China
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
I read an interesting article on the CCTV website regarding the state of the animation industry in China and how the young in China are simply not embracing China produced cartoon characters. You will recall that an article I wrote a few weeks back regarding this very topic describes the cause of this situation very [...]
Continue reading...China’s Animation Landscape Overview 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
I wrote this article to address what many cartoon producer friends discuss with me about China’s current animation landscape. They have been trying to penetrate this 1.3 billion population market for yonks but find difficulties. There are reasons for this, and I discuss them in this article. According to statistics collected until early 2008, China boasts [...]
Continue reading...Martial Arts Animated Feature Follows Kung Fu Panda’s Success
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Barely a month after Kung Fu Panda kicked its way to China’s box office success, another martial arts animated feature has taken China by storm. Aptly named ‘Feng Yun Jue’ or ‘Wind Cloud Duel’, the 2D animated movie is an adaptation of the popular Hong Kong martial arts comic series Feng Yun which had also [...]
Continue reading...Kungfu Panda Scores in China, But …
Monday, July 7, 2008
Reuters – Saturday, July 5By Simon Rabinovitch BEIJING – More than just a box-office hit in China, animated Hollywood comedy “Kung Fu Panda” has led Chinese artists to find fault with their own film industry and call for fewer government controls on culture. The movie, which tells the story of a fat panda who dreams of martial [...]
Continue reading...Hello Kitty for Japan’s New Ambassador of Tourism
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Japanese international phenom “Hello Kitty” has just been revealed to be Japan’s Ambassador of Tourism in China and Hong Kong! The newscaster reporting this doesn’t seem to be very thrilled though… [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=sQ0kbLPYxr8[/youtube]
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