Category Archives: Magazines

Menbox: they’re here, they’re queer, they just need a little Photoshop training

More covers from Menbox.

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Love in China

The simplified Chinese characters used on the Mainland are often bemoaned because the simplification process got rid of the ‘heart’ in love. This is ‘xin’, the character meaning heart: This is traditional character for love: Note the little ‘heart’ in … Continue reading

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Animal house

A recent issue of news magazine Sanlian Life Weekly looks at transmission of diseases from animals: The large coverline means: ‘Investigating SARS and bird flu, the virus chain between humans and animals’. One of the series of articles inside the … Continue reading

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Scylla and Charybdis in the Beijing subway

This is Time Out Beijing, known in Chinese as LE magazine. Because of various absurd regulations governing print media in China, the publishers of LE have not yet been allowed to put “Time Out’ on the cover. But that’s another … Continue reading

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Japan big in China

This is a Ruili BOOK: It’s one of a series of magazine / book things published by the publishers of Ruili magazine, which is probably China’s best distributed women’s glossy. You can find Ruili BOOKs at newstands, and also at … Continue reading

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Esquire China

Esquire (时尚先生) with Li Donghua and Esperanza Friedli on the cover.

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Namu: poster girl of the matriarchal Mosuo

This is singer, dancer, writer and socialite Namu. She’s on the cover of the magazine supplement of the South China Morning Post (Sunday January 18, 2004). Namu, aka Yang Erche Namu, is the poster girl of the matriarchal Mosuo people. … Continue reading

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A sex diary is good for you

This is the January issue of City Pictorial. The issue contains the usual selection of fluff about being a groovy metropolitan Chinese twentysomething. City Pictorial is the magazine that used to publish sex blogger Mu Zi Mei’s column. In this … Continue reading

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Caijing, after all these years

On the 18th of June 2002, FinanceAsia.com published a story by Dan Slater asking this question: “Cajing is a magnificent anomaly. But how long can it last if it keeps losing dubious defamation cases?” Caijing is still around. Here is the … Continue reading

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The dreams of 29 Chinese people

The New Year’s Day issue of New Weekly (xin zhoukan): The coverline is: ‘I see in my dreams – survey of the dreams of 29 Chinese people’. The magazine’s editors asked 29 different people around China to draw a scene … Continue reading

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