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Dubbed wanghong (Chinese for internet celebrity), China's online sensations are influential. They help push products through live streaming and other forms of digital content that sway millions of mobile-savvy, social media-addicted consumers, spawning a consumer goods market worth billions of dollars.
During the 4th World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, earlier this month, he said the coming fifth-generation or 5G mobile technology and new-age tech like augmented reality will help make livestreaming even more powerful.

A report released in June jointly by internet consultancy iResearch and Sina Weibo said China's internet celebrities are riding their fame to establish new types of businesses of their own, creating a whole new chain surrounding themselves.

Online video streaming and short videos are key parts of these businesses. Their revenues come from a wide range of sources, including e-commerce, gifts from viewers of streamed content, subscriptions and advertising.

Without specifying the actual number of online celebrities with more than 100,000 followers each, Sina Weibo said their tribe increased by 57.3 per cent this year, with a collective fan base of 470 million consumers, up 21 per cent from 2016.

This has led market insiders to refer to this phenomenon as  Internet celebrity economy.

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The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976. Launched by Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party of China, its stated goal was to preserve 'true' Communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Maoist thought as the dominant ideology within the Party.

The Revolution marked Mao's return to a position of power after the Great Leap Forward. The movement paralyzed China politically and negatively affected the country's economy and society to a significant degree.

The Cultural Revolution brought China's education system to a virtual halt for some time. In the early months of the Cultural Revolution, schools and universities were closed. Primary and middle schools later gradually reopened, but all colleges and universities were closed until 1970, and most universities did not reopen until 1972.

The university entrance exams were cancelled after 1966, to be replaced later by a system whereby students were recommended by factories, villages and military units, and entrance exams were not restored until 1977 under Deng Xiaoping.

During the Cultural Revolution, Jiang Qing took control of the stage and introduced the revolutionary model operas under her direct supervision. Traditional operas were banned as they were considered feudalistic and bourgeois, but revolutionary opera, which is based on Peking opera but modified in both content and form, was promoted. Starting in 1967, eight Model Dramas (6 operas and 2 ballets) were produced in the first three years, and the most notable of the operas was The Legend of the Red Lantern. These operas were the only approved opera form and other opera troupes were required to adopt or change their repertoire.The model operas were also broadcast on the radio, made into films, blared from public loudspeakers, taught to students in schools and workers in factories, and became ubiquitous as a form of popular entertainment and the only theatrical entertainment for millions in ChinaThe effect is similar in the film industry. A booklet titled "Four Hundred Films to be Criticized" was distributed, and film directors and actors/actresses were criticized with some tortured and imprisoned. [No feature films were produced in mainland China for seven years apart from the few approved "Model dramas" and highly ideological films, a notable example of the handful of films made and permitted to be shown in this period is Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.

After the communist takeover in China, much of the popular music from Shanghai was condemned as Yellow Music and banned, and during the Cultural Revolution, composers of such popular music such as Li Jinhui were persecuted. Revolution-themed songs instead were promoted, and songs such as "Ode to the Motherland", "Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman", "The East Is Red" and "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" were either written or became extremely popular during this period. "The East Is Red", especially, became popular; it de facto supplanted "The March of the Volunteers" as the national anthem of China, though the latter was restored to its previous place after the Cultural Revolution ended.

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Shanghai Animation Film Studio is a part of the Shanghai Film Group Corporation. Founded in April 1957 in Shanghai, it is one of the oldest animation studios in China. It has produced around 500 films with over 40,000 minutes of original animation data source, covering 80% of China's domestic animation production. It has the title of "the most valuable repository of animation in China".

SAFS film were produced in various art forms with Chinese characteristics that has a rich and profound traditional Chinese culture. It also had several international corporations with various studios around the world.

Chinese people born after 1950 have all grown up with animations produced by SAFS. It has become an essential part of childhood memory of all generations since the 1950s.

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Havoc in Heaven, also translated as Uproar in Heaven, is a Chinese animation film directed by Wan Laiming and produced by the Wan brothers. The film was created  in the 1960s, and received numerous awards.
The stylized animation and drums and percussion accompaniment used in this film are heavily influenced by Peking opera traditions.It won the outstanding film award at the 1978 International London Film Festival,  the 13th Special Interest award at the Czech Republic Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the best art award and children's literature award at the 2nd Chinese film "Hundred Flowers" festival.

However, when the first half of the film was released in 1961, state and public reception was glowing, but by 1965, when the second half was completed, it became impossible not to recognize in it revolutionary undercurrents. At first, Mao was compared favorably to the mischievous Sun Wukong, wreaking havoc in “Heaven,” overturning the Chinese bourgeoisie.

But by the same metaphor Mao had also plucked away the country’s “stabilizing pillar” with his disastrous Great Leap Forward. By the start of the Cultural Revolution, Mao’s China could be seen as “Heaven,” Mao himself its stuffy Jade Emperor, and the disenfranchised groups living under his regime, the monkeys.

Havoc in Heaven was banned less than a year following its full-length release, and the entire animation industry was shuttered, its writers and animators sent to the countryside alongside millions of others to “learn labor” on farms and in factories instead.

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As the collapse of the Soviet Union, the communist animation industries were still crashing by the rising of American and Japanese animations, and stepping into decay.Today, communist animation industry which still runs with the same mode is in  North Korea.

Also, with the development of CGI technologies, the traditional animations started to lose their competitive forces. Even more, the government reduces the finance support as the profits were shrinking.

Today, Shanghai Animation Studio is just a poor and old building without any securities.The residents around even consider it as an unfinished building if you do not notice the old logo outside the gate.

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Internet censorship in China is extreme due to a wide variety of laws and administrative regulations.

More than sixty Internet regulations have been created by the government of China. The apparatus of China's Internet control is considered more extensive and more advanced than in any other country in the world.

The governmental authorities not only block website content but also monitor the Internet access of individuals; such measures have attracted the derisive nickname "The Great Firewall of China."

For  normal public, we need to use special tools called VPN to go across the wall. to use websites and social media such as Google, Youtube, and Twiiter.

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VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. A VPN is a tool that enhances the Internet by making your connection private, encrypted and anonymous. This works by securing a network connection thru a tunnel that connects you to the Internet privately and anonymously. Here’s a simple illustration to explain VPN.
VPN works best to countries like China which has blocked too many websites including Google, Facebook, Youtube and other most popular sites.

The Chinese government has built a sophisticated system called the Great Firewall of China to censor every information or contents that are not favourable to the government. On the other hand, VPN evades this Great Firewall and effectively bypass internet censorship.

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China’s Internet is full of catchphrases, in-jokes and other memes. While many are just for fun, others have a deeper meaning to them. China’s online memes can sometimes be a powerful tool to say what cannot be said.

Although online memes exist all over the world, Chinese memes are different from their western counterparts because the Chinese language is ideal for the creative use of characters. Words that are otherwise censored might get twisted and altered by the use of different characters. Chinese readers will still understand its true meaning, but censors will not look for it until it goes viral. Not only textual memes are popular in China, images are also widespread; they are also difficult to track for censors and cannot be blocked through keyword search functions.

Bloggers will find many ways to get their message across. As Michael Anti has stated: “China’s bloggers are not innovative because of governmental censorship, they are innovative in spite of it.” In this way, social media can help bloggers to slowly change China’s internet into a more open and free environment. Memes are part of this upward direction.

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Plastic surgery is booming in China, fueled by rising incomes, growing Western influences, and the imperative of looking good on social media.

This year 14 million Chinese are expected to have cosmetic surgery, a 42 percent surge from last year, according to SoYoung, a popular app on the industry that used data from several sources.
Summers are especially busy at the Shanghai clinic because recent university graduates believe better looks lead to better employment prospects, particularly in the entertainment business.

Increasing numbers seek plastic surgery in their teens, although the hospital does not treat those under 16, while 16 and 17 year olds require parental consent.

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Has internet censorship in China influenced the growth of its design culture in any way?

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How did internet celebrity culture in China affected (or by) other country's culture?

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Between the internet censorship and the Cultural Revolution, which, in your opinion, had a stronger impact upon the design culture of china?

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How did the meme culture in China became huge and popular, and does it influence the graphic design culture in China?

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If the Shanghai Animation Film Studio had adapted modern animation technique, do you think they will be able to compete with the animators from around the world?

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Does the censorship in china has a negative/positive impact for its culture?
Or does it allow its people to focus on what is truly important and work more towards common goals?
As China becomes more democratic and market focused how do you believe their culture will shift? Will they keep the same mono culture as before or shift into a more collective of culture?

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how has the internet censorship and vpn impacted china's design culture?

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What other factors have affected China?

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1. Other than politics, what other factors have shaped modern China's design culture?

2. How would you define China's design culture, based on your research? I.e. what is your elevator pitch.

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do you think by being oppressed with government's limitations of the outside world the Chinese design culture actually growing better like you mentioned in the memes section of does it shrink instead of growing rapidly?

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How will it benefit the country if china allows more media in their country?