Middle Earth - China’s cultural industry podcast

About Middle Earth - China’s cultural industry podcast

Your source of insight into China's culture industry: Hear from people creating and producing content in the world's second biggest cultural market. Hosted by Aladin Farré, and presented by The World of Chinese magazine.

Publisher

Aladin Farré

Category

arts · society & culture · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Feb 2019

Latest episode

30 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

119 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Jul 2026

   #112 - The rise of Fangyan (local dialect)'s content

   Send us Fan Mail Recently, a Chinese film DEAR YOU (給阿嬤的情書 - 2026) broke the country box office. This historical / family / period drama was shot on a mere 14 million yuan budget ($2 million), and yet made over 1.8 billion yuan ($265 millions). But what’s interesting about that story is that it’s not so much about the money itself, or that the director was quite unknown ; it is that this story that spam from the end of 1940s to today is primary spoken in Teochew dialect. And those type...

2. 

   24 Dec 2025

   #111 - Are filmmakers still going to have a job? The latest on Chinese A.I. filmmaking's leapfrog advance

   Send us a text 18 months ago, we released our episode #99 examining how AI was being used in films, documentaries, and advertising. At the time, most of the more compelling AI-driven work was confined to short-form content. But Chinese content creator and storyteller are doing leapfrog on that area. As AI tools advance rapidly, they are increasingly taking on more complex roles in filmmaking, including generating entire features and even documentaries. But as reliance on the technology grows...

3. 

   23 Nov 2025

   #110 How Chinese cities are reinventing themselves after the urban boom

   Send us a text China's building boom can now be declared over. Yet what awaits for the 940 million city dwellers living in Chinese cities? Featuring - Éric LE KHANH : architect - LIU Jue (LJ) : managing editor at TWOC - Jingqiu ZHANG: IARA - Co-founder & Architect To go further - Middle Earth episode #108 - The Memorabilia Economy: Why Some Can’t Stop Dreaming of the 90s - Middle Earth episode #102 Remote Creatives - TWOC's article Welcome to Liu York: Going with the Flow in...

Who has been a guest on Middle Earth - China’s cultural industry podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Cao Liuying
• Clément Magar
• Qu Zhizheng

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

66

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

92

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