Prominent Chinese writer and Nobel laureate Mo Yan opened a new social media account Monday, with the aim of talking to young people.He recorded a short video on the WeChat social media platform, intr
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Although he’s coming from a numbers-driven background, growth expert Julian Shapiro focuses on the emotional power of storytelling these days.“I like to think of successful brand-building
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A comparison between Chinese Olympic sprinter Su Bingtian and an event in a 23-year-old sci-fi novel written by famous author Wang Jinkang has gone viral online after the latter seemed to portray Su’s
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Substack announced last week that it acquired Letter, a platform that encourages written dialogue and debate. The financials of the deal weren’t disclosed, but this acquisition follows Substack&
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IMAX China on Wednesday reported a half-year 2021 Greater China revenue of $53.4 million, up from $6.7 million a year ago, driven by strong year-on-year box office recovery and increased installation
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Music rights giant ASCAP said today that a quartet of early-stage startups/university music projects will compete in its Immersive Music Studio Challenge. The 12-week project is a partnership between
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Whenever a young, female author releases a modern metropolitan fiction, it is often categorized as a work of feminine literature and readers will nearly always speculate on whether or not the plot is
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