Monsters In the Palace

正Chinese children's book publishers find new waysto reach international readers A series of children's stories about the mysterious adventures of Li Xiaoyu,an11-year-old girl from Beijing and all kinds of mythical creatures in the Palace Museum in Beijing,the Forbidden City that was home to 24 emperors across Ming and Qing dynasties     

New Movie Town

正A new TV and movie center is rising in north China What do you get if you have a dead wolf,an elephant and a horse? No, it’s not the start of a bad joke but just some of the artifacts on display at a special effects makeup studio located in the Dachang Movie Town in Dachang Hui Autonomous County of Langfang City, north China’s Hebei Province.Xiao Jin Special Effects Makeup Studio,     

Regulating for media pluralism and the pitfalls of standortpolitik: the reregulation of German broadcasting ownership rules

Germany has witnessed a veritable television boom over the last ten years. However, the plethora of new private channels masks an underlying duopoly, a concentration of media power that has not been prevented by an elaborate system of regulation. This article maps these developments, particularly the Lander competition for investment, the structural power of the media industry, and the emergence of a media policy ‘Grand Coalition’ between SPD North Rhine‐Westphalia and CSU Bavaria. It assesses the Federal Constitutional Court's role and highlights the public broadcasters’ crucial function to act as a pluralistic counterbalance in the dual public/private broadcasting system.     

我爱北京

我叫Peter Gonzalez,来自美国的加利福尼亚。12年前,我从加州来到了中国。在这以前,我对中国是一无所知。当我穿着短裤踏上中国的土地,中国人都用奇怪的眼神看着我。当时是秋天,天气已经很凉了,他们一定认为,这个老外疯了。我心里清楚,我没疯,只是心里越来越兴奋,因为我喜欢上了中国,喜欢上了北京。