Blog Tag - CCTV
If you think Dashan is squeaky clean – what with the tame, wordplay-heavy Mandarin crosstalk routines that made him megastar on Chinese television in...
At first glance, this year could be viewed in many ways as unexceptional, yet the first thing that struck us from conducting these interviews for The...
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China had 176 million surveillance cameras in operation last year and the speed of...
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
Seven years ago, the Mandarin Oriental hotel next to the iconic China Central Television (CCTV) tower on Guanghua Lu caught fire and burned, killing...
Check out a A Taste of Britain, a gentle spoof on the Chinese POV of UK cuisine. Using the culinary documentary style of CCTV's A Bite of China, ...
Is China declaring war on stupid American sitcoms like Big Bang Theory, The Good Wife, and NCIS? It is strange that they would be removed rather...
Five years ago tonight (Sunday), the China Central Television (CCTV) hotel tower caught fire during an illegal fireworks display and burned, killing...
![Did Beijing's Mayor Really Say He Would "Kill Himself" If Air Quality Doesn't Improve?](https://www.thebeijinger.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_list_image/public/thebeijinger/blog-images/307891/cctv_mayor_suicide_size.jpg "Did Beijing's Mayor Really Say He Would "Kill Himself" If Air Quality Doesn't Improve?")
Who says watching television in China isn't entertaining? In the clip below, which appeared under the straightforward headline "Beijing passes...
That's what we get for tempting fate. We go ahead and write the "Cui Jian will play on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala broadcast" piece, and of course...
Someone’s getting fired at the Chongwenmen KFC. According to lab tests run by CCTV, the KFC branch’s ice cubes had a bacterial count 18 times higher...
What is the most played song in your iTunes library? “Exhibit C” by Jay Electronica. Any- time I’m riding the subway or trying to get around this...
Most people who only have one name are recording artists, or at least pretending to be. Bono. Madonna. Sting. With that in mind, perhaps I could be...