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Coronavirus: China film industry's 'bleak winter' deepens

A staff member carrying sanitizing equipment walks past a closed cinema at a shopping mall [Photo: Reuters]

Even before the new coronavirus, people working in Chinese entertainment had been calling the industry’s struggles their “bleak winter” - as tighter censorship, a crackdown on tax evasion and new government restrictions strangle opportunities for work.

The epidemic is only exacerbating that misery.

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