Category Archives: Advertising and Marketing

Mirror Media

Clean hands and magazine covers This article and the photographs are by guest contributor David Drakeford. Yue Lu is a trendy mid-price Beijing restaurant owned by the highly successful ‘cynical realist’ painter Fang Lijun (方力钧) who is best known for … Continue reading →

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Frosties in Tibet

A web video of a Frosties TV commercial set in Tibet.

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Mobile phone spam list of shame

A list of companies condemned for sending mobile phone SMS spam

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China Businesscast: The creative agency landscape

An interview with the managing director of a boutique design firm in Beijing, discussing the creative industry in China.

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Modern Chinese oil painting seeks record price

A painting of Master Xu Yun (Empty Clouds) is advertised in Phoenix Weekly (凤凰周刊) for US$18.40 million.

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A dog’s breakfast of a name

A dog’s breakfast of an English name

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Olympics! Olympics! Olympics!

An ad for Hengyuanxiang (恒源祥) repeats the same line twelve times.

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Spring Festival wordplay

A BMW ad with numbers hidden in characters, and a Microsoft tool for making couplets.

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Leadership switch at Citroën

Citroen (雪铁龙) swaps out Mao for Napoleon.

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Beijing housewives desperate for decent apartments

Energetic City Life (沸城), a development outside Beijing’s southwest Fourth Ring Road, advertises to desperate housewives in the Beijing Youth Daily (北京青年报).

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