We’re joined by Mitch Moxley, author of numerous articles on Chinese film in the New York Times and the Atavist, and of Apologies to My Censor, about his six years reporting in China, to talk about Dying to Survive. Then, Hao Zhang, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard’s China Health Partnership who’s worked on provider payment … Continue reading Actually Good (Dying to Survive) →

Poet Yi Wu talks about the mysteries and excesses of Hello Mr. Billionaire. Actor Michael Gralapp — a Hawaiian businessman who fell into the Chinese film world and became “basically China’s Winston Churchill,” — tells us about playing Warren Luffett in Hello Mr. Billionaire and about his adventures on Propaganda Department sets. Marc Blecher, author … Continue reading Brewster’s Billions (Hello Mr. Billionaire) →

We’re joined by Carl Zha, host of the Silk and Steel Podcast, to talk about the cuteness and craziness of the Monster Hunt series, and by Guillaume Aretos, production designer of Monster Hunt 2, and the art director of Shrek and Antz, to talk about his work on the film and his magical perspective on … Continue reading Strange Buffet (Monster Hunt) →

What happens when you put together a war correspondent, a UFC fighter, and one of Hong Kong’s leading MMA journalists? The latest episode of Uproar in the Studio. First, the brilliant May Jeong tells us about reporting her amazing profile of Fan Bingbing in this month’s Vanity Fair. Then, Sam Alvey sits in as our … Continue reading Fight King (Never Say Die) →

First we introduce the show. Then we interview Chris Berry, Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London, one of the foremost scholars of the Chinese blockbuster, and a former employee of China Film, the old state monopoly, about the how the Chinese film industry we know today came to be. We close out on … Continue reading Death by Mango (The Ex-File 3) →