Gilding the Panda
Attending the Cannes Film Festival and taking home the coveted Palme d’Or is every filmmaker’s dream.
Will they someday yearn for the Panda d’Or? Not if the prize is about the politics of civilization.
Attending the Cannes Film Festival and taking home the coveted Palme d’Or is every filmmaker’s dream.
Will they someday yearn for the Panda d’Or? Not if the prize is about the politics of civilization.
Four and a half decades after Deng Xiaoping called for Marxism to adapt to China’s “material conditions,” Xi has added that it must also match “China’s outstanding traditional culture.” But the “Two Combines,” as this formula has been christened, is aimed squarely at legitimizing and justifying his own uncontested power.
This week we have news of some important reshuffling at the top of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). Zhuang Rongwen (庄荣文), a deputy director at the CAC who was previously in the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, will now take over as director of the CAC, replacing Xu Lin (徐麟), a close ally […]