Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu

Shaolin Soccer is real!

The re-purposing of a movie for a front page.

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Man responsible for four murders, including two policemen, arrested

Hu Yihua (胡益华), a native of Zhejiang, shot down two policemen in Guangdong and a couple in Zhejiang. His arrest in Xiamen yesterday has been covered in papers today. Newspaper gave him the title ‘sole bandit’ (Southern Metropolis Daily) and ‘ evil demon’ (Dongguan Times.

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Rights lawyer Ni Yulan - from prison to a Beijing park

The lawyer Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) has been making the rounds on microblogs and the magazine world. Her story began when Beijing successfully won the bid to host the 2008 Olympics - and the municipal government promptly started to ‘beautify’ the city by razing houses and independently owned property.

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Jiangsu’s exam cheater ousted

… because he copied another writer word for word.

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360quan.com to shut down

360quan.com, a social networking website funded by the Koolanoo Group, which focused on the post-90s generation, is said to be closing.

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Dinosaur theme park to open in Beijing

A new theme park opens in Beijing, whilst fake photocopies of ID cards is in the news.

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A music video’s take on property prices

Shawn Huang (黄征), a pop star on the mainland, released a new video for his song, “Sell” (卖), which features a whole cast of people either spitting blood or foaming at the mouth after calculating how many years it would take them to buy a house in the capital.

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The most lovable: Chinese soldiers in the Korean War

An official newspaper marks the 60th anniversary of the Korean War.

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Xinjiang terrorist cell leaders identified

Two papers from Dongguan highlight the urgent issues of the day: the floods in Southern China, and the Xinjiang terrorist cell.

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Haruki Murakami’s Chinese translators on emulating style

Lin Shaohua (林少华) and Lai Ming-chu (赖明珠) talks about translating Murakami into Chinese and preserving his unique style.

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