Tag Archives: New Weekly

A volunteer’s shuttered blog: follow-up

Global Times reports on Eckart Loewe; New Weekly says he turned down an interview because of government criticism.

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In search of a useful government website

New Weekly takes the Qixian cobalt scare as the starting point for a look at how the government fails to make use of the Internet as a communication tool.

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Visions of magazine covers

Cover mosaics for four major Chinese magazines.

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Who cares about maps?

Chinese collecters aren’t much interested in old maps, says an article in the New Weekly. Yang Lang, author of two books about map collecting, would disagree.

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Rich painters and poor rock stars

Painting is more lucrative than rock music, says the New Weekly.

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Hepatitis in a redesigned Sanlian

Sanlian Life Week (三联生活周刊) gets redesigned for the National Day. New Weekly (新周刊) looks at information overload.

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The ‘national’ in National Day

Xiao Feng writes about China’s national flavor, national curse, national bird, national car, and so forth, Dongfang Yu writes on the true meaning of China’s National Day in the age of angry youth.

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News magazines: Sister Hibiscus gets her head shrunk and New Weekly turns 10

A rundown of the major Chinese newsmagazines for the week of 25 August.

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