Category Archives: Magazines

Southern Metropolis Weekly weighs in on the Chinabounder affair

Cover of the Southern Metropolis Weekly edition of 8 September 2006.

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News magazines: Sister Hibiscus gets her head shrunk and New Weekly turns 10

A rundown of the major Chinese newsmagazines for the week of 25 August.

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Cartoon slang, rock jargon, and Garfield’s netspeak

Rock slang from Yan Jun, anime slang from Japan, and netspeak in the new Garfield movie.

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Where is the party when you need it?

From Oriental Outlook magazine, a recently-graduated party member talks about the difficulty he has in paying his dues to the Communist Party of China.

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Foreign newspapers to be printed in China?

This is from a press release from Canadian company called Newspaper Direct, apparently sent out on August 4: NewspaperDirect, Inc. the world leader in digital print-on-demand newspaper distribution, announced this week that it has signed an agreement with Beijing Founder … Continue reading

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Chinese travel reading: women in prison

Delightfully illicit true-crime magazines sold at China’s bus and train stations.

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Battling street patrols and Li Yuchun

Keeping the streets clean August 2, 2006 – Danwei Noon Report, a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China, from Chinese and English sources • Sina has a story about two city patrol teams in Shenzhen meeting … Continue reading

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Celebrating freedom, until the next clampdown

At the beginning of this year, the Freezing Point (冰点) supplement of the state-owned China Youth Daily (中国青年报) was suspended and Li Datong, its editor in chief was sacked. Coming shortly after an editorial shakeup at The Beijing News (新京报) … Continue reading

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Two new e-magazines

New offerings from China Daily and Modern Media.

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China Daily becomes an image source for Fleshbot

Fleshbot enjoys Chinese state-owned media Fleshbot is the porn-watching blog of the New York based Gawker Media mini-empire, one of the most succesful blog media companies, run out of New York by former Financial Times journalist Nick Denton. So, who … Continue reading

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