Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Yu Qiuyu: why book reading is a waste

Yu Qiuyu (余秋雨) comments on National Reading Day (国家阅读日) and raises a ruckus.

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House of Flying Bananas

A group of American students of Chinese has produced a spoof kung fu film and posted it to Youtube. Apparently shot in Vermont, the film is titled House of Flying Bananas. The dialogue is in laowai-inflected Mandarin, with English subtitles. … Continue reading →

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Will porn get Baidu Japan blocked in China?

Chinese search engine Baidu has a Japanese version at baidu.jp. The below is excerpted from a promising new English-language blog written by a Chinese guy, Ya I yee: Baidu Japan’s Porn Images Baidu, the leading search engine in China, recently … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with Thirteen Princess Trees?

The movie Thirteen Princess Trees (十三棵泡桐) directed by Lu Yue (吕乐) is delayed for a second round of review by the China Film Bureau.

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Prostitutes and language mavens

陪客 is a contested term in a Chinese reference book.

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Foreign blog providers blocked

China’s Net Nanny is having some kind of emotional issue: in the last few weeks, Livejournal, Xanga, and Blogspot have all been blocked. The Nanny has been playing a game with Blogspot for sometime now. It was first blocked in … Continue reading →

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Should He Zhili be forgiven for playing for Japan?

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

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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Return of the Three Represents

Qiu Shi (求是 Seeking Truth) publishes articles on the Three Represents (三个代表) by Li Changchun (李长春) and Zeng Qinghong (曾庆红).

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Who killed the movie rating system?

It was Huang Jianzhong (黄健中), director of Rice (大鸿米店), the film adaptation of the story by Su Tong (苏童).

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