Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Sunday is Wait In An Orderly Line Day

Today many China Mobile users in Beijing received the following text message: 首都文明委提示您,每月11日是排队推动日,排队文明,礼让光荣。 The Civilized Capital Committee reminds you: the 11th of every month is Wait In An Orderly Line Day. It’s shame that it’s only one a day a … Continue reading →

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The mobile phone man

The very definition of the modern man According to statistics from China’s telecoms regulator MII (Ministry of Information Industry), there are over 426 million mobile phone users in China, the biggest user group in the whole world. The cover story … Continue reading →

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Costume dramas sing the main theme

The Economic Observer (经济观察报) on Ming Dynasty 1566 (大明王朝1566), Hai Rui, the main theme, and censorship of historical dramas like Toward a Republic (走向共和).

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Discovering Anna May Wong – Sexy Beijing

In this episode of Sexy Beijing, Su Fei explores the life of the sexiest Chinese American woman ever to grace the silver screen: Anna May Wong (黄柳霜). Born to a Chinese laundryman’s family in 1905 in Los Angeles, she went … Continue reading →

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Wang Shuo sells out and returns to print

Wang Shuo (王朔) wanted to publish his next work online, but then signed a 3.65 million yuan deal with Rongshuxia (榕树下).

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Mobile phone advertising: will datamatrix codes work?

Print media that you’re not meant to read. In a recent talk with Johan Vakidis, creative director at OgilvyOne Shanghai, I learned that Ogilvy is preparing to incorporate datamatrix (dm) codes in their advertising campaigns in China. Put simply, these … Continue reading →

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Chinabounder’s back and he’s mad

Last year a blog named Chinabounder that recounted the foreign blogger’s sexual experiences with Chinese women enraged a professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. The professor started an Internet manhunt that scared Chinabounder into silence. But now China … Continue reading →

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GAPP: books criticized, but not banned

GAPP says it didn’t ban any books; Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强), lawyer for Zhang Yihe (章诒和), responds.

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When is something newsworthy?

Wu Fei (吴非) writes about what is and isn’t newsworthy in China.

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Make sure the guests are prepared

A guest house offers condoms and is suspcious when the guests won’t take them. By Jiang Ping (蒋平) in Oriental Outlook (瞭望东方周刊).

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