Attention Londoners, Mancunians, Liverpudlians, Oxonians and Cambridgians: The chance to chase your dreams is here! Auditions for China's Got Talent are taking place in the UK, with regional winners getting to compete in a grand final in London. Five lucky acts will then fly to Shanghai to participate in the next China's Got Talent competition beginning in November. more ›

China's Got Talent ended its second season with a grand finale at the Shanghai Stadium yesterday night attended by a crowd of 80,000. Zhuo Jun, a 19-year-old self-taught dancer from a small village in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, pipped 55-year-old "Auntie Sweetie" Cai Hongping to become the champion. Zhuo wowed audiences with his self-choreographed robotic dance, while Cai, a vegetable seller who has been touted as China's answer to Susan Boyle, sang "Nessun Dorma", the popular aria from Puccini's opera Turandot. more ›

If you've got tickets to the final episode taping of this season's China's Got Talent you're in for an extra treat. It's just come in that Susan Boyle, the overnight Scottish singing sensation, will make a special appearance on the final episode of the hugely popular China's Got Talent. The finale will take place right here at Shanghai's Grand Stadium on July 10 where Boyle will sing a few classical songs with local acts. Her contract appearance was signed many months ago but China's Got Talent production did not want to release the news until now for fear she may cancel for health reasons. Last year, the 50-yr old singer was booked to appear on Jiangsu Satellite TV's NY Eve special and canceled last minute citing poor physical and psychological health. more ›

Move over, "Little Fatty". China's new singing sensation comes in the form of a farmer from Zhulou Village in Shandong Province by the name of Zhu Zhiwen (朱之文). Zhu became an instant celebrity after clips of his audition at a talent show on Shandong TV, "I'm a Big Star", went viral on the internets. Like Susan Boyle, Zhu arrived on set poorly dressed, and had most people in the audience thinking he was just another nutcase. But they changed their minds as soon as he opened his mouth: Zhu's rendition of the theme song of the movie drama “Romance of Three Kingdoms” had the audience up on their feet by the time he was done, and judges on the show were so shell-shocked by his voice that they had to make sure he wasn't a shanzhai farmer putting on a lousy coat. more ›

Happy Girls, the new SARFT-approved edition of uber-popular singing show Super Girls, has kicked off with what the Wall Street Journal is calling China's “own Susan Boyle moment.” 79-year-old Wu Baiwei sang “On Songhua River,” a patriotic song about the Sino-Japanese War to a panel of judges that... well, quite honestly didn't look nearly as moved, shocked or impressed as Simon Cowell and friends. Maybe it's a culture thing. Still, she did earn a placement on the show so we'll be seeing more of Grandma Wu soon! more ›

There's no real need for us to comment on this lovely piece of Susan Boyle / fake Olympic singer satire. more ›