Category Archives: Internet and Media

A cinema for the blind in Beijing

This week’s 1510 Digest, a weekly English summary of essays and reportage published on the Chinese website My1510.cn: Cinema for the blind By Sergeant Xiaoman, June 11 2012 This post describes a community initiative in the Houhai area of Beijing: In … Continue reading →

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China’s everyday heroes take their lead from the CPC

The front page of the Beijing Daily today features the pictures of three people who have recently committed acts of heroism in China. The headline: “Learn from the most beautiful Chinese people – a model of our generation!” These three include: 1) … Continue reading →

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Pan Shiyi’s photo used to advertise sexual dysfunction treatment

The advert pictured here is for Nanyang Xiehe Hospital in Nanyang, Henan province. The main headline in the center of the ad says: ‘Male sexual dysfunction – A new method of treating make sexual dysfunction us starting’. The man in … Continue reading →

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‘This world is not Paradise – the death of Lin Jun’ — 1510 Digest

This 1510 Digest is the first of a new weekly roundup of recent articles published in Chinese on My1510.cn. ’1510′ (yi wu yi shi 一五一十) is a Chinese idiom which means ‘to tell things objectively and honestly’. The site was founded by Phoenix … Continue reading →

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Chinese media seduced into wrongdoing by Western concepts

The Beijing Daily is a commercial daily controlled by city authorities and usually considered a Party paper. Today the top headline is that 70 million square meters worth of residential housing in Beijing will be reinsulated and fitted with energy-saving technology. This … Continue reading →

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Wang Yang: Look online for constructive feedback on governance

The Dongguan Times is a commercial daily affiliated with the Party news group in the southern manufacturing city of Dongguan. Today the front page features a picture of Wang Yang, Provincial Party Secretary of Guangdong Province and CPC Central Committee member. The … Continue reading →

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1.8 trillion yuan changed hands in 3 months of Chinese e-commerce

Last week Deutsche Bank sent out an email summarizing some numbers about the Chinese Internet from iResearch, a firm that regularly releases stats and information about the Internet economy. Here are some of the numbers from iResearch: • The growth … Continue reading →

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Clowning around in the media

On Friday May 4, the Chinese media dramatically broke its silence on the saga of blind activist Chen Guangcheng with a series of opinion pieces, some sniffy, and some laced with the toxic vocabulary of an organized campaign. The Beijing Daily, … Continue reading →

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‘Wizard arrested for raping Buddhist’

The top front page headline of Beijing Evening News today concerns tightening of food safety regulations. The photo shows soccer boss Nan Yong being led away ‘wearing prisoner uniform number 087′. Nan was director of the Chinese Football Administrative Center when the … Continue reading →

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Wang Yang’s not lying low

The Chongqing press has stopped singing red and striking black, and former city boss Bo Xilai is unlikely to grace its newspaper front pages again. But Guangdong Party Secretary Wang Yang is not lying low. Bo’s state-led, neo-Maoist ‘Chongqing Model’ … Continue reading →

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