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Long being popular in China, the derivative products of fashionable foreign cartoon characters, such as “Doraemon,” “Crayon Shin-chan,” and many of Disney’s characters, have been deeply ...

China’s tech firms are engaged in a cartoon arms race to develop or buy Chinese characters in an animation ... which ranges from Mickey Mouse to Iron Man. A key to that effort, has been the ...

China has banished Homer ... and have yet to invent characters to match the appeal of Mickey Mouse or Japanese icons such as Pokémon. The cartoon campaign comes amid efforts by President Hu ...

A man in China was reportedly detained for nine ... with different variations sometimes including a cat or cartoon character in the police hat. On Saturday evening, local police received a tip ...

He’s sweet as honey — but the Chinese just can’t “bear” Winnie the Pooh. The portly cartoon character has been banned from Chinese social media in light of unflattering memes comparing ...

The Chinese name for and images of the plump, cute cartoon character are being blocked on social media sites here because bloggers have been comparing him to China's president. When Xi Jinping and ...

China has struggled to contain ethnic ... artists who were consulted in the making of the cartoon objected to the use of animal characters because of the negative connotations associated with ...

A man in southern ... Li dressed in a cartoon costume during the cheque presentation ceremony, a creative way to protect winners’ identities that has become popular in China.

Some on Chinese social media pointed out that conflict is a part of life and that cartoons offer a valuable way to teach children about more complicated issues. “Is this world either black or ...

Once again, despite his extreme averageness, the Doraemon character ... because the cartoon was “one of the common memories of childhood for those who were born in China in the 1980s”.