Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Another year, another Lei Feng

Posted on 2007-03-05 by Joel Martinsen

Lei Feng (雷锋) has his day, 2007. A new book, Be Like Lei Feng (像雷锋那样) by Wu Hongmei (吴红梅). Also, why Lei Feng Day should be cancelled.

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China sex cliches, inflated circulation numbers and The New York Times

Posted on 2007-03-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

In the late 1990s, two Shanghainese women named Mian Mian and Wei Hui wrote novels that described promiscuous lifestyles. The publication of these books was followed by various articles in the Western media about the sexual revolution going on in … Continue reading →

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Livejournal blocked in China?

Posted on 2007-03-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Blog and online diary platform Livejournal seems to be blocked in Beijing, and also in Shenzhen, according to Mary Ann O’Donnel, author of Shenzhen Field Notes. Can readers elsewhere in the country confirm? Please leave a comment or send email … Continue reading →

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Big numbers for a book signing

Posted on 2007-03-05 by Joel Martinsen

Yu Dan (于丹) signs 15,060 copies of Things I Learned from Zhuangzi (于丹《庄子》心得); Wang Xiaobo’s complete works have typos that no one will take responsibility for.

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Exploitation and The Blood of Yingzhou District

Posted on 2007-03-03 by Joel Martinsen

Xinhua journalist Xiong Lei (熊蕾) eviscerates the academy-award-winning AIDS orphan documentary The Blood of Yingzhou District (颍州的孩子). Cinematographer Qu Jiangtao (曲江涛) responds.

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Kaiser redux

Posted on 2007-03-01 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Rock musician, writer and China technology maven Kaiser Kuo is blogging again: Ich Bin Ein Beijinger. Excellent.

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The return of bike registration greeted with derision

Posted on 2007-03-01 by Joel Martinsen

China’s regulatory authorities announce plans to register all bike purchasers. People laugh dismissively.

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Booklists: things Ming, under-appreciated gems, and over-rated junk

Posted on 2007-02-25 by Joel Martinsen

From Southern Metropolis Weekly, a list of over-rated books from 2006, under-rated books from 2006. Also, Ming Dynasty histories.

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China Businesscast: mobile web and marketing with Naviblog

Posted on 2007-02-25 by Robert Ness

Mobile marketing firm Naviblog With about 140 million PC Internet users and 450 million mobile subscribers, people are questioning whether or not the mobile device will surpass the PC as the primary means for accessing the Web in China. Naviblog … Continue reading →

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Bootleg-mobiles, sutras retold by Wang Shuo, and bad habits in contemporary fiction

Posted on 2007-02-24 by Joel Martinsen

Bootleg fantasy novels sold out of the back of a van; Wang Shuo retells the Diamond Sutra in his new book ‘My Thousand-year Chill’ (我的千年寒); Modern Chinese lit started with ‘Flowers of Shanghai’; today’s novels have problems with glibness, says Hu Chuanji.

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