Category Archives: Foreign media on China

Western media manhunt

Angry Chinese netizens misdirect their frustrations at the Beijing offices of foreign media organizations.

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The junket to Tibet

Tibet junket: Some journalists are more equal than others.

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What should be condemned?

Excerpt from a Drunkenpiano post about Tibet and Western media.

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Black days for the Dålai Låma

Two perspectives on recent events in Tibet.

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The dark side of China

A translated excerpt from Chinese blogger Tiger Temple (老虎庙) about some homeless people in Beijing and the Western media on the dark side of China.

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How should we translate ‘cheng guan’?

While the Danwei Propaganda Department has not yet decided the verdict of the case Net Nanny vs. Great Firewall, another news vocabulary question has become urgent: What is the best translation of cheng guan (城管)? These are the thuggish city … Continue reading →

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Best and worst of the China hacks

Access Asia’s yearly awards for the press.

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A new twist on an old cliché

In 1995, when your correspondent arrived in China, the Western press was publishing stories about about the “sexual revolution” in China symbolized by the opening of sex shops that sold vibrators and aphrodisiacs. Since then, the foreign press has never … Continue reading →

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Tally ho, what what, Englishmen all drink cups of tea

From the Daily Telegraph, six puerile paragraphs that seem to have their inspiration in Chinese restaurant jokes from the 1980s.

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Nonsense journalism in The Spectator

Aidan Hartley writes about black jails in The Spectator.

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