Category Archives: Internet and Media

Purported open letter from Wang Lijun

Posted on 2012-02-10 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Wang Lijun affair continues to fascinate China. In a blog post titled Chongqing American TV drama, Han Han says he spent last night constantly refreshing the home page of the People’s Daily website, hoping to see some official announcement that would clarify what has … Continue reading →

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Vacation style medical treatment

Posted on 2012-02-08 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The first Chinese Internet meme of the Year of the Dragon has emerged: Image from Weibo – outside the U.S. Consulate On Thursday February 2, Chongqing’s Information Office announced that Wang Lijun (王立军)，the triad-busting police chief who has been working … Continue reading →

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Han Han the novelist versus Fang Zhouzi the fraud-buster

Posted on 2012-02-01 by Joel Martinsen

It’s been an exciting two weeks on China’s microblog scene. Megablogger, rally racer, and novelist Han Han has been defending himself against science writer Fang Zhouzi’s charges that he didn’t write some of his most famous work. Han Han (韩寒) … Continue reading →

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Teen digital habits in Beijing and Palo Alto

Posted on 2011-12-06 by Danwei

In August and September 2011, Danwei worked with the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) on a survey of the digital and media habits of high school students born in 1993 and 1994. The results were presented … Continue reading →

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Groundhog day in China – Super Girls and the Internet

Posted on 2011-09-20 by Jeremy Goldkorn

This morning, a reader drew my attention to an article on Danwei: Alongside the movement for a “civilized” Internet, the anti-Super Girls campaign seems to be picking up steam as well. China Times published an interview yesterday with Liu Zhongde, one of the … Continue reading →

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A village with only one restaurant

Posted on 2011-09-15 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Below is a translation of a joke that is currently being circulated widely on Sina Weibo and other Chinese social networks: There is a village that only has one restaurant. Everyone in the village has to eat at that restaurant. Villager: Why can’t … Continue reading →

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A Chinese student on 9-11

Posted on 2011-09-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

This image is currently being circulated on Weibo. It’s a series of screenshots from a Phoenix TV program on the tenth anniversary of 9-11. The screenshots show an interview with a student in Beijing. These are the captions: Q: What was … Continue reading →

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Miss Universal Values

Posted on 2011-08-28 by Robert Foyle Hunwick

The band was playing Cocaine as the small entourage entered but it was highly doubtful any of them would ever touch the stuff: these were international representatives of China, “athletes” in a land of contradictions, competing for fresh spoils. After years of … Continue reading →

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City Sun, the “undercover” paper

Posted on 2011-08-25 by Joel Martinsen

As commercial papers look for ways to hook readers’ interest, the City Sun (城市信报) appears to have found a reliable strategy: sending its reporters undercover. “UNDERCOVER” shouts the headline to the March 29 edition of the paper (shown above), which features a first-hand look … Continue reading →

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A brief history of Chinese porn

Posted on 2011-08-24 by James Griffiths

The origins of Chinese erotica and pornography can be traced way back into antiquity. Though remnants have been found dating from as early as the 1st century, production of erotic artwork appears to have properly flourished around the 10th century and reached … Continue reading →

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