{"id":155951,"date":"2026-11-05T03:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/155951\/des-bishop-on-chinas-comedy-boom-and-censorship\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T03:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:03:58","slug":"des-bishop-on-chinas-comedy-boom-and-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/155951\/des-bishop-on-chinas-comedy-boom-and-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Des Bishop on China's Comedy Boom and Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Stand-up comedy is booming across China, trailing only cinema as the country's second-largest theater category, according to state media. Many credit American comic Des Bishop with sparking the trend over a decade ago after he moved to Beijing, learned Mandarin from scratch, and built a stand-up routine that helped lay the groundwork for today\u2019s scene.<br \/>\nBloomberg\u2019s Stephen Engle met with Bishop in Hong Kong to discuss the industry's evolution. (Source: Bloomberg)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stand-up comedy is booming across China, trailing only cinema as the country's second-largest theater category, according to state media. Many credit American comic Des Bishop with sparking the trend over a decade ago after he moved to Beijing, learned Mandarin from scratch, and built a stand-up routine that helped lay the groundwork for today\u2019s scene. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2012],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livecrudeoiltraderoomresults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}