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Author Archives: Joel Martinsen
Soccer hooligan burns with enthusiasm
Shenyang Evening News features a photo of soccer hooligans armed with flaming torches.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged Chongqing Economic Times, hooliganism, Shenyang Evening News, soccer
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Today’s news in pronouns
Henan Business Daily teases four stories about various people on the front page.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged Henan Business Daily, Liu Zhaohua
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Heroic policeman rams a burning bus
Ah-SIR in Guangdong attempts to stop a runaway, flaming bus.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged fire, police, Southern Metropolis Daily, Yangtse Evening Post
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Verifying reports of Ai Weiwei’s surgery
Is Ai Weiwei having brain surgery in Germany? Ethan Zuckerman muses on a Twitter update. Liu Xiaoyuan blogs about the issue.
Posted in Internet
Tagged Ai Weiwei, Ethan Zuckerman, Liu Xiaoyuan, Twitter
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1626 teaches you to pronounce major fashion brand names
Fashion magazine 1626 features illustrations parodying common Chinese transliterations of foreign brands.
Posted in Advertising and Marketing, Magazines
Tagged 1626, branding, egao, parodies, transliteration
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Escape from a Net addiction center
A BioHazard parody that skewers Yang Yongxin’s Internet Addiction Treatment Center.
Posted in Featured Video, Internet
Tagged internet addiction disorder, video, Yang Yongxin
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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.
Posted in Government
Tagged New Weekly, online governance, online public opinion, Xiao Feng
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Wen Jiabao in the classroom
Wen Jiabao attends a morning of classes at Beijing’s #35 middle school.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged 60th anniversary, newspapers, The Beijing News, Wen Jiabao
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“Footprints” in Chinese popular culture
‘Footprints in the sand show where one has been’ = 凡走过必留下痕迹. Where did this odd equivalence come from? Chinese bloggers track down a possible source.
Posted in Translation
Tagged Bible, footprints, Hu Ziwei, Lo Ta-yu, poetry, translation
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Cui Jian’s concert on the square
A four-song concert given in 1989 by Cui Jian and his band.
Posted in Music
Tagged Cui Jian, FangKC, rock music, Super Girls, video
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