Category Archives: Magazines

Self China magazine launch

Posted on 2007-04-04 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Self (悦己) follows Vogue into mainland China.

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The case against a film rating system

Posted on 2007-03-31 by Joel Martinsen

An Outlook Weekly (瞭望新闻周刊) op-ed argues in favor of delaying a film rating system for the Chinese movie industry.

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Yu Quanyu: the man behind the rhetoric

Posted on 2007-03-23 by Joel Martinsen

Yu Quanyu (喻权域) interviewed in Southern People Weekly (南方人物周刊) about his anti-sedition proposal. Also, comments from Ran Yunfei (冉云飞).

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Prostitutes and language mavens

Posted on 2007-03-22 by Joel Martinsen

陪客 is a contested term in a Chinese reference book.

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City Pictorial magazine seeks laowai to talk about sustainability issues

Posted on 2007-03-21 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Guangzhou-based City Pictorial is a hip glossy magazine edited and written by young Chinese journalists, and with a big readership amongst media workers in China. A recent article about your correspondent in the magazine resulted in more than a dozen … Continue reading →

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Should He Zhili be forgiven for playing for Japan?

Posted on 2007-03-19 by Joel Martinsen

He Zhili (何智丽), aka Koyama Chire (小山智丽), is the subject of a nationalist editorial by Hu Ziwei (胡紫微).

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Treason as farce: Yuan Weishi on Yu Quanyu’s seditious speech proposal

Posted on 2007-03-18 by Joel Martinsen

Yuan Weishi (袁伟时) talks about the anti-seditious language proposal (惩治汉奸言论法) put forth by Yu Quanyu (喻权域). What makes a ‘hanjian’?

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China sex cliches, inflated circulation numbers and The New York Times

Posted on 2007-03-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

In the late 1990s, two Shanghainese women named Mian Mian and Wei Hui wrote novels that described promiscuous lifestyles. The publication of these books was followed by various articles in the Western media about the sexual revolution going on in … Continue reading →

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Booklists: things Ming, under-appreciated gems, and over-rated junk

Posted on 2007-02-25 by Joel Martinsen

From Southern Metropolis Weekly, a list of over-rated books from 2006, under-rated books from 2006. Also, Ming Dynasty histories.

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Bootleg-mobiles, sutras retold by Wang Shuo, and bad habits in contemporary fiction

Posted on 2007-02-24 by Joel Martinsen

Bootleg fantasy novels sold out of the back of a van; Wang Shuo retells the Diamond Sutra in his new book ‘My Thousand-year Chill’ (我的千年寒); Modern Chinese lit started with ‘Flowers of Shanghai’; today’s novels have problems with glibness, says Hu Chuanji.

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