Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Wang Shuo’s next novel to be subscription blog?

Excerpt from Global Voices report on Wang Shuo’s latest movements.

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All radios go to hell again!

Antiwave (反播) relaunches.

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007 vs Man in Black

Internet star video maker Hu Ge has released an entertaining new video (found via Shanghaiist). Hu is best known for his Internet video spoof of Chen Kaige’s movie The Promise (see ESWN and Danwei for more about the affair). This … Continue reading →

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Rolling Stone rolls back onto cover

Subs float to the top The January issue of Rolling Stone features Beijing punk rock / hard core band Subs on the cover. The feature story about them recounts the story of their formation and describes some of their recent … Continue reading →

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Snake’s Eve

‘Snake’s Eve’ is the large coverline on the January issue of FHM China (男人装): it refers to a photo spread of three models cavorting with apples and snakes. You can see the whole spread of photos on this forum post … Continue reading →

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Wang Xiaofeng: How I became Time Person of the Year

Raymond Zhou has translated Wang Xiaofeng’s tale ‘How I became Time’s Person of the Year’.

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Corruption, terrorism and Saddam

Graft and terrorism The headlines on today’s Beijing Youth Daily are two general press releases from Xinhua News Agency, which means most newspapers had to use these articles as their headline stories. Corruption clampdown The first is President Hu Jintao’s … Continue reading →

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The love story of two idiots — online video

Yoqoo.com is one of the more promising Chinese Youtube clones. Below is a 33 minute movie that appears to have been specially commisioned by Yoqoo. It’s called The love story of two idiots (两个傻子的爱情故事). The protagonists are a man and … Continue reading →

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The last nobles of Taiwan

Phoenix Weekly for January 2007 has a feature on the Chiang Kai-shek family.

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Time magazine’s China blog

Time magazine’s China correspondents have a blog, called The China Blog. Other Mainland-based journalists with active blogs are Richard Spencer of The Daily Telegraph and Tim Johnson of McClatchy Newspapers. James Fallows, National Editor of The Atlantic Monthly, lives in … Continue reading →

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