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A woman, a gun and a noodle shop

The trailer for the international release Zhang Yimou’s new film A woman, a gun and a noodle shop, a Chinese version of the Coen brothers Blood Simple.

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The Storm Warriors is awesome. You just don’t realize it yet!

A full-page ad in today’s paper explains a few confusing things about the film.

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Reserve a ticket on the 2012 ark through Taobao!

Buy a ticket off Taobao for ten million yuan (exchange rate to be determined).

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2012: a disaster movie not suitable for children

A girl cries after watching 2012. Should it be banned?

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Ah Bei, CEO of douban.com, on the website as a “creative stage”

Compared to other websites on the Chinese blogosphere, douban.com, not quite a social networking site but still based on users forming events, discussion groups, fan pages of brands, groups, people et al, has dominated the cultural scene online in China.

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John Rabe in Nanjing’s city of life and death

Blogger reviews of City of Life and Death and John Rabe.

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The Nanjing Massacre paired with a strong navy

A front page image combines stills from a movie about Nanking with an image of China’s naval fleet.

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Shut out of Dujiangyan

Yin Lichuan reviewed; Chinese basketball; Naomi Klein reviewed; Liu Xiang’s record broken; shut out of Dujiangyan

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The importance of an ATM thief’s retrial

Midi cancelled; Xu Ting’s retrial; BOCOG vs. Australia; Beijing’s reservoirs; Old Beijing buildings; music design

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News from Sudan

Box office failure for Asian film; Boao forum and Vincent Siew; a hospital in Sudan; Sudanese runners; construction suspended for Olympics.

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