Category Archives: Media and Advertising

2006 in review: arts & entertainment

Links to SARFT’s rules for movie titles, a 2006 online media quiz, and end-of-2006 entertainment roundups from The Beijing News and China Daily.

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No space to speak, or simply no one listening?

Battling over pseudoscience on Phoenix TV and online.

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What Confucius said

Yu Dan (于丹) writes about Confucius for modern readers and sells 800,000 copies. She is interviewed in Sanlian Life Week.

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Pseudoscience in four glorious colors

Philosopher Li Ming (黎鸣) threatened to commit suicide if his Laozi-based proof of the Four Color Theorem was wrong. Turns out it is. Also, Liu Zihua’s Eight Trigrams Cosmology (八卦宇宙学理) as an example of the relationship of traditional Chinese culture to modern science.

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A fairy tale in Guangxi

Guangxi schoolchildren write in to the People’s Daily complaining about fraud perpetrated by their county leadership.

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2006: The year in spoofs

Southern Metropolis Weekly (南都周刊) runs a year-end issue filled with nothing but spoofs of the major stories of 2006.

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SARFT clamps down on “online TV stations”

The State Administration of Radio, Film and TV (SARFT) released an announcement on December 25, calling on a handful of online TV stations to cease and desist operating and calling themselves TV stations.

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Xinhua’s guidelines for political correctness

If you’re on the Mainland and can’t view Roland Song’s ESWN website because of the earthquake-induced broken cable, you will have missed this translation: Banned Terms in Xinhua News Reporting, a translation of a post on the popular Tianya forum. … Continue reading →

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Quake damage to undersea cables

Tuesday night’s earthquake off Taiwan disrupted Internet and telephone communications all over East Asia. While Taiwan and Singapore seem to be hardest hit by the damage to the cables, some foreign websites in China are still not loading properly. India’s … Continue reading →

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Gallery of airbrushed photos

A gallery of airbrushed images from 20th century Soviet and Chinese history.

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