Author Archives: Jeremy Goldkorn

He Yong in 1994

1990s Beijing rock music enfant terrible He Yong (何勇) in 1994: a short monologue and a live performance of the song ‘Girl, Beautiful’ (姑娘漂亮).

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Melamine in New Zealand milk products

Melamine in the milk: Et tu New Zealand?

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Sanlu ad spoofs

This series of spoof Sanlu ads has already been scrubbed from Chinese video sharing sites but is still on Youtube. The country bumpkin voice-over parodies the original ads, saying that Sanlu powder guarantees kidney stones etc.

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Cows for rent, wet nurses for 18,000 yuan a month

Wet nurses are making a comeback in the wake of the melamine milk scandal, and some are asking for 20,000 yuan a month for the use of their breasts.

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Beijing traffic: it’s back

The first day of bad traffic in Beijing after Olympic restrictions ended on the weekend.

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China’s quality regulator resigns…

Fallout from the melamine milk scandal: Li Changjiang, the chief of China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine has resigned.

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Breast milk: more than 400 nutrients but no melamine

A brief Q&A with Xiao Wu, author and breastfeeding advocate, about effects the melamine baby formula scandal may have on child rearing habits in China.

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Time to buy shares in soy milk companies

Starbucks is serving only soy milk: could this be the start of a revival in the popularity of the traditional Chinese drink?

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Sanlu milk powder covers the Sahara

Sanlu’s September 2008 TV commercial for Western media, with the copy “For the past 15 years we have enough sale volume covered the entire sahara desert”. The ‘volume’ refers to milk powder.

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Abreast of the melamine milk scandal

Updates and translations of Internet comments about the Sanlu melamine milk scandal.

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