The Face of China
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Xinyuan Wang looks at the evolving magazine scene in China. With traditional news stands disappearing, what future is there for the many publications in the Chinese market? Xinyuan also looks at what political content is permitted in magazines, and which subjects are considered sensitive. She asks younger readers how they search for material on political topics, and discovers that magazines are unlikely to be their first choice.
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| 0:21.2 | The Maxing stands in China are crowded with new publications every month. |
| 0:25.0 | But what are Chinese people reading and why? |
| 0:29.0 | CBN weekly, Chinese edition. That's the one that I read every like almost from day to day. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh I love this one. Fashion magazines. |
| 0:40.0 | Oh yeah yeah fashion. |
| 0:42.0 | I pretty much read every. Yeah, yeah, fashion. |
| 0:47.0 | I pretty much read every single page of the magazine. |
| 0:57.0 | Not only magazine, I think everything happening in China reflect the new China. I'm Xinjiang one and for the BBC World Service I'm out on the streets of Shanghai to find out what's between the magazine covers |
| 1:05.9 | in the face of China. |
| 1:12.4 | Now I'm in front of the one of the magazine stands and on both sides there's a |
| 1:17.6 | display of altogether around a hundred different magazines and on my rights there's all the magazines about |
| 1:24.2 | like fashion and also the news like news weekly and some like political report. |
| 1:30.0 | Zaj? That's it's not. She said the best seller is always something. |
| 1:33.0 | She's not. |
| 1:35.0 | She's not. |
| 1:36.0 | She says the best seller is always something about fashion. |
| 1:41.0 | It's actually the main customer they come from like |
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