Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Don’t call it self-publishing: print on demand hits the net in China

Posted on 2006-11-29 by Joel Martinsen

POD books are illegal in China, say regulators.

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Born in 1976

Posted on 2006-11-29 by banyue

Southern People Weekly looks at young people born in the 1970s.

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Mobile Business in China – podcast

Posted on 2006-11-28 by Robert Ness

If you are like me, you have sat in restaurants and bars nursing your drink in awkward silence wishing you knew enough to join in the conversation about things called 3G and TD-SCDMA. If so, then you be pleased about … Continue reading →

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SMS-gate II: High school edition

Posted on 2006-11-28 by Joel Martinsen

In a redux of the Qin Zhongfei case, two teachers in Anhui province get jailed on libel charges for sending an SMS to county leaders criticizing their principal.

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Zhang Yu: Open and hidden shamelessness

Posted on 2006-11-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Zhang Yu describes the casting couch.

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Chinese journalists tire of Thomas Friedman

Posted on 2006-11-27 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Thomas Friedman’s Flat Earth is overplayed, writes Michael Anti. Milton Friedman is better.

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Dead air at China National Radio

Posted on 2006-11-26 by Joel Martinsen

A transmission break at China National Radio and anecdotes about the culture of armed guards at the station’s headquarters.

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Al Jazeera: Global change in the media environment

Posted on 2006-11-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

This is from an AFP report about the launch of Al Jazeera’s English language news channel: Dave Marash, the news channel’s Washington-based anchor … told AFP … “E[]verybody in American journalism is at worst curious and at best really interested, … Continue reading →

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Updated China video website list

Posted on 2006-11-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A list of free online video portals in China – Chinese Youtube clones, many of them shameless ripoffs.

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Sex, money and the environment

Posted on 2006-11-24 by banyue

Today’s news: sex, fraud and endangered animals A roundup of today’s print media Sex Management The cover story of the last issue of New Weekly surveys the state of sex in China. The feature includes information about sex-related problems, and … Continue reading →

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