China Media Insights

In January 2024, China executed Wu Xieyu (吴谢宇), once a star student at Peking University, for the murder of his mother nearly a decade earlier. The case has haunted the Chinese public ever since: not only because of the brutality of the act, but because this gruesome femicide seems to grow out of the very soil of academic aspiration, filial duty, and educational pressure that are so familiar to many young Chinese nowadays.

Here’s a plot of average Douban movie ratings over time (grouped by year):

This plot was generated using Python and matplotlib, using data scraped from Douban’s top-rated movies.