Category Archives: Books

A new look for The Economic Observer

Posted on 2007-04-03 by Joel Martinsen

The website of The Economic Observer (经济观察报) gets an updated. Yu Hua interview featured.

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Behind the scenes at Southern Weekly

Posted on 2007-03-28 by Joel Martinsen

A new book, ‘Backstage’ (后台), shines light on what goes into a news story at Southern Weekly (南方周末 aka Southern Weekend).

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Yu Qiuyu: why book reading is a waste

Posted on 2007-03-27 by Joel Martinsen

Yu Qiuyu (余秋雨) comments on National Reading Day (国家阅读日) and raises a ruckus.

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Prostitutes and language mavens

Posted on 2007-03-22 by Joel Martinsen

陪客 is a contested term in a Chinese reference book.

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Another year, another Lei Feng

Posted on 2007-03-05 by Joel Martinsen

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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Big numbers for a book signing

Posted on 2007-03-05 by Joel Martinsen

Yu Dan (于丹) signs 15,060 copies of Things I Learned from Zhuangzi (于丹《庄子》心得); Wang Xiaobo’s complete works have typos that no one will take responsibility for.

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Booklists: things Ming, under-appreciated gems, and over-rated junk

Posted on 2007-02-25 by Joel Martinsen

From Southern Metropolis Weekly, a list of over-rated books from 2006, under-rated books from 2006. Also, Ming Dynasty histories.

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Bootleg-mobiles, sutras retold by Wang Shuo, and bad habits in contemporary fiction

Posted on 2007-02-24 by Joel Martinsen

Bootleg fantasy novels sold out of the back of a van; Wang Shuo retells the Diamond Sutra in his new book ‘My Thousand-year Chill’ (我的千年寒); Modern Chinese lit started with ‘Flowers of Shanghai’; today’s novels have problems with glibness, says Hu Chuanji.

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Blogger Wang Xiaofeng sticks it to the man

Posted on 2007-02-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

We discussed Beijing culture – or the lack of of it – swearing, idiots on the Internet, Northeastern Chinese jokes about sex, blogging, and the meretricious behavior of Sina.com.

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帽牌老外vs三表 (中文版本)
采访王小峰的视频和音频

Posted on 2007-02-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Chinese version of Wang Xiaofeng interview. 笔者和王小峰聊了一下午，录了将近一个小时，剪辑成10分钟的视频。你也可以听全采访的音频纪录.

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采访王小峰的视频和音频