Category Archives: Magazines

Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang sues Jingpin Gouwu weekly newspaper for IPR infringement

Liu Xiang, China’s 110-metre hurdles gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, has taken the weekly Beijing newspaper Lifestyle (jingpin gouwu) and a department store to court over the use of his picture. The People’s Daily last week reported: … Continue reading

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Kaiser Kuo’s instant China journalism template

Kaiser’ Kuo’s column in the December issue of That’s Beijing is a funny, pithy parody of much Western journalism about China: Fill in the Blanks The Foreign Correspondents Club of China offers journalists new to Beijing this useful template for … Continue reading

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Christmas, belly dancing with snakes and Caijing magazine

Propaganda Department discourages Christmas celebrations.

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Public intellectuals on the road to debauchery?

Southern People Weekly gets the authorities in a snit with its feature on Public Intellectuals.

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Sanlian Life Weekly cover girl: Niu Niu, with her dodgy movie

Niu Niu, daughter of an official, makes a movie and forces people to see it, Sanlian reports.

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Caijing-affiliated magazines banned and other ball-breaking news

60 publications bannedChina’s Press and Publications Administration has released a document banning 60 newspapers and magazines. Some have been banned because they were using international publishing licences rather than Chinese ones, others have been accused of using fake publishing licences. … Continue reading

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No market for regional magazines?

Hong Kong blog Flying Chair posted an obituary for the Far Eastern Economic Review which attracted a number of comments. One of them came from someone who identified himself as a FEER insider. This is where he placed the blame … Continue reading

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FHM China starts to look like the real thing

FHM China is getting bolder. Check out Pamela Anderson on the cover of the November issue: They’re not just using images from other international editions of FHM; they are also taking some of their own photos, such as this one … Continue reading

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Welsh Guardsman’s revenge: the return of Mark Kitto

Mark Kitto, the founder of That’s magazines, was ousted in a coup plotted by the company’s sales director and financial controller together with the state-owned company that controls the magazines’ publication licence. But you can’t keep a former Welsh Guardsman … Continue reading

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City Weekend: Stem cell treatments in China

City Weekend’s October 28 issue has a cover story on stem cell treatments in Beijing. The article highlights the work of Dr Huang Hongyun who has been using fetal cell transplants to treat a variety of diseases: Over the past … Continue reading

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