Category Archives: Advertising and Marketing

For sale: A simple dwelling for plain folks. 3.75 million.

Beijing bans ostentatious (炫富) language in real estate ads. Mansion (豪宅), luxury (奢侈), supreme (至尊) and so forth.

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One more reason to hate those flat-panel ad screens

LCD advertising screens like those installed by Focus Media raise temperatures by 6 to 8 degrees Celcius in elevators.

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Comrades, Flush!

同志们,冲啊! found on toilet walls in several places in China. A funny piss-take on a revolutionary slogan, or an insult to heroic martyrs?

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Baidu as a verb

Baidu changes its ‘search’ button to 百度一下.

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Who’s not going to Jin Ping Mei park, and why?

A Jin Ping Mei ruins park (金瓶梅遗址公园) in Huangshan, Anhui, gets no visitors. Schadenfreude abounds.

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Multinational wordplay

A development near Gongti uses brand names to attract clients.

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Who’s tops in Chinese lit?

An online ranking of Chinese-language authors puts Han Han ahead of Su Dongpo. Not a problem, say Ge Fei and Cai Jun.

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Bandit chicken in Hunan

A restaurant in Xiangfan, Hubei (湖北省襄樊市) is called ‘West Hunan Bandit Chicken’ (湘西土匪鸡)

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China Businesscast: Tom Doctoroff of JWT

Tom Doctoroff is CEO of JWT Greater China and author of the book ‘Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer’.

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Another year, another Lei Feng

Lei Feng (雷锋) has his day, 2007. A new book, Be Like Lei Feng (像雷锋那样) by Wu Hongmei (吴红梅). Also, why Lei Feng Day should be cancelled.

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