Category Archives: Internet

Liu Xiaoqing: billionaire actress and businesswoman

Liu Xiaoqing, the actress-turned tycoon whose tax evasion case returns to court this Friday, is starting to excite the tabloids again. Here she is, in a swimsuit, looking pretty good for a fifty-something business woman. Local English-language rag City Weekend … Continue reading →

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Stuntman and actor Ke Shouliang dies in booze-related car accident

Ke Shouliang was a veteran actor and director of more than 20 Hong Kong action films and famous all over China for stunts like jumping a motorbike over the Great Wall and the Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River. He … Continue reading →

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78 million and counting

Xinhua reports that there are now more than 78 million Internet users in China. The report (in Chinese) is here.

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Miss World in Hainan

A 19-year-old Irish girl named Rosanna Davison, daughter of the singer Chris De Burgh, was named Miss World last night in Hainan, China. Second place went to Miss Canada, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, while Miss China, Guan Qi, was placed third. Davison … Continue reading →

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Washington Post on Mu Zi Mei

John Pomfret of The Washington Post has written the first properly-researched newspaper article on Mu Zi Mei. The piece sets the Mu Zi Mei phenomenon against the broader loosening of controls on Chinese citizens’ private lives and “an aggressive search … Continue reading →

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Shanghai Eye

Shanghai Eye looks at the laziness of foreign hacks, and teaches capitalist roaders how to count.

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Before Mu Zi Mei…

Mu Zi Mei is not the first Chinese girl to get famous by writing about sex and debauchery. In the dying years of the 20th century, a Shanghainese writer named Mian Mian wrote about casual sex, drugs and rock ‘n … Continue reading →

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Mu Zi Mei in the New York Times

The international press comes to the Mu Zi Mei party, several weeks late: In the New York Times: Internet Sex Column Thrills, and Inflames, China The only new information the Grey Lady unearths is this: “[Mu Zi Mei] also said … Continue reading →

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In defence of piracy

Wild models in Sanlitun, by Kaiser Kuo and Jerry Chan (from the defunct Chinanow.com, 1999)

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Mu Zi Mei and sexual harrassment; the China Daily and banned writings that are not banned

A writer named Liang Ning on Blog China conducted an informal survey about Mu Zi Mei. He asked 20 women in their 20s and 30s who work IT, media and marketing what they thought about Mu Zi Mei’s writings. According … Continue reading →

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