Category Archives: IP and Law

Sensationalist headlines at the Wall Street Journal: foreign magazines in China

Posted on 2006-04-07 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Breathless Wall Street Journal article about foreign mags in China.

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Uniform non-compliance ruffles China’s bar

Posted on 2006-04-04 by Joel Martinsen

There’s a crisis in China’s legal profession. According to an investigation performed by the Mirror, over 90% of China’s lawyers are in violation of the All China Lawyers Association regulations that require a gown to be worn in court. The … Continue reading →

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Prices jump on Beijing porn, but is it possible not to buy?

Posted on 2006-03-29 by Joel Martinsen

Zhongguancun police confiscate 68,000 discs, driving prices up to 25 yuan per. Also, a comic posting about the tenacity of porno vendors.

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Feng 37

Posted on 2006-03-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A blog of poetry and missing persons: Feng 37. Related: Hu Jia seems to be out.

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Rolling Stone Hits Wall?

Posted on 2006-03-28 by admin

Translated from today’s Massage Milk: Rolling Stone to Roll On Out? Free verse-style linebreaks are in the original: Just one issue after starting, Rolling Stone‘s been told to stop. Word is that the decision came from the Shanghai News Publications … Continue reading →

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Truth in advertising comes to the personals section

Posted on 2006-03-28 by Joel Martinsen

Excerpts from Beijing Times’ personal ads, and Xi’an regulations on truth in matchmaking advertising.

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Approved and rejected TV shows

Posted on 2006-03-27 by Joel Martinsen

Translation and analysis of an SARFT chart categorizing approved and rejected Chinese TV shows by subject matter and place of origin.

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Cowardly Wiley? Mark Kitto in the news again

Posted on 2006-03-17 by Jeremy Goldkorn

From today’s Financial Times: When Mark Kitto received a draft contract late last year from Wiley, the US-listed publishing house, he had every reason to feel confident that his book about doing business in China would soon be released for … Continue reading →

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Big Brother and the Net Nanny

Posted on 2006-03-16 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Two people involved in “sensitive matters” in China have recently disappeared. One of them is AIDS activist Hu Jia. His wife Zeng Jinyan has started a blog, mostly in Chinese, called Looking for Hu Jia. Yesterday she published a post … Continue reading →

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Fun at the CPPCC

Posted on 2006-03-14 by Joel Martinsen

Some of the less weighty proposals to come out of the 2006 session of China’s CPPCC.

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