Category Archives: Magazines

Sex and the City meme will not die!

Sex and the City has never once been broadcast on Mainland Chinese TV or legally distributed on DVD. But as evidence of the power of pirated DVDs as agents of spiritual pollution, China already has a handful of magazine columnists … Continue reading

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Bring on the paparazzi

This summer’s China publishing fad is the trash celebrity magazine, and for good reason: When you can’t write about news, why not write about frivolous nonsense! Beijing Youth Weekly is a well-established trash weekly, as is the weekend edition of … Continue reading

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New Weekly: Do Chinese kids know anything about traditonal Chinese culture?

Q: Do you know what China’s four great inventions are? Paper, printing, the compass and gunpowder 49.3% know all four, 37.3% get one or more wrong, 13.3% don’t know at all (2004.06.12)

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The last 1,000 pandas in Qinling

Pandas on the cover of Sanlian Life Week.

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Pre-emptive piracy: Hello, OK?

British celebrity gossip trash mag OK! is coming to China. According to the Beijing News, the Chinese edition will be launched this month by Cinezoic Advertising, a Shanghai-based agency connected to a successful film production company. Cut to the Northern … Continue reading

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Science Fiction World

This is the cover of the June issue of Science Fiction World. There are parts of Beijing that look a bit like that. If you are interested in Chinese science fiction, the website zhwj has reviews and translations. Science Fiction … Continue reading

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Soccer Night

This is Soccer Night magazine (zuqiu zhiye), a monthly print spinoff of a popular football program broadcast on Monday nights on CCTV5, China’s national sports channel. The program shows excerpts of matches from different leagues, both domestic and foreign. The … Continue reading

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China’s national mood and a pet

City Pictorial’s May 28 issue has a feature on China’s ‘mood’, consisting of short interviews with 20 writers who went to France to participate in the Chinese year in France activities. The interviews don’t reach any conclusion about China’s national … Continue reading

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East Weekend pulls a Janet Jackson on Shanghai

East Weekend is a mainstream trash weekly newspaper published in Shanghai. Which makes it rather surprising to discover a nipple on its front cover. Mark Kitto sent in the image with the following comment: “Could not resist buying a copy … Continue reading

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Esquire: does size matter?

Esquire China has just a small visual cue that it’s a foreign magazine.

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