Category Archives: Magazines

Wu Si on the intractable problem of forced labor

Wu Si (吴思) talks about the history of slaves working in mines and kilns over the last few centuries in China.

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Playboy mansion for Macao – but will anyone go?

Playboy to open a mansion in Macau. Also, casinos worry as mainland Chinese authorities slow down visa processing.

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Political structure and the Shanxi kiln scandal

Zhu Dake (朱大可) writes about the Shanxi brick kiln slaves. A parody ‘internal report’ suggests that slavery should be a new form of economic development.

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Were Time and Fortune wrong about Hong Kong?

Time and Fortune admit their mistakes about the ‘Death of Hong Kong’. Or do they?

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China’s unfavorable copyright imbalance

GAPP just released a report on the state of China’s publishing industries in 2006. The report concluded that, while China’s copyright-related trade has made strides, the “unfavorable copyright trade imbalance” hasn’t fundamentally reversed. In support of this conclusion, the report … Continue reading

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The blogification of print media

Fang Jun (方军) at Mind Meters (思维的乐趣) writes about Chinese print media lifestyle columns being influenced by blogs.

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Copyright protection for online content

Beijing Business Today recently reported on China’s accession and ratification of two U.N. Internet-related treaties, the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. Together, the two treaties require signatory countries to provide copyright protection for computer programs, … Continue reading

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Official media on popular opinion in the Xiamen PX affair

China Newsweek (中国新闻周刊) weighs in on the use of SMS and online media in the Xiamen PX case.

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A look at the status of magazine publishing in China

Last May China hosted the 36th FIPP World Magazine Conference in Beijing. FIPP stands for International Federation of the Periodical Press, an organization that inlcudes 255 members in 57 countries worldwide, and that represents 110,000 magazine titles with an estimated … Continue reading

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Wendi Deng profile author on Antiwave

The lads at Chinese podcast website Antiwave have interviewed Eric Ellis, author of the profile of Rupert Murdoch’s wife, Deng Wendi. As reported on Danwei, the publication of the profile — originally commissioned by Good Weekend — was later canceled … Continue reading

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