Category Archives: Media and Advertising

A proposal for a book weight-loss program

Peking University Chinese professor Chen Pingyuan thinks books have gotten too thick.

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Attn. China watchers: interpret this black-and-white color photo

A photo in a Chinese newspaper is half black-and-white and half color.

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Bootleg faith

A pirated Bible (圣经) sold by a roadside bookseller in Jilin, China.

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Yu Qiuyu on cross-cultural communication

A piece by Yu Qiuyu (余秋雨) adapted from a presentation given at August’s 2006 Cross-Cultural Communication Forum.

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Jack Ma: Vision, and fears of a bubble

The elf that roared Last week your correspondent was a panelist at a huge conference in Shanghai about interactive and search engine marketing called Ad:tech. The keynote speaker was Jack Ma (马云), the elfin and charismatic founder and CEO of … Continue reading →

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Blogspot blocked again

China’s Net Nanny has forgotten to take her meds. In August this year, the Nanny unblocked Blogspot — Google’s popular free blog hosting service that had been inaccesible in China for several years. In the last few days, the Nanny … Continue reading →

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Writers at home and abroad distort Red Mansions

A Comic Red Mansions (大话红楼) raises the ire of parents and teachers. Is it the work of an American NASA scientist? Also, a computer-generated image of Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu.

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Guo Jingming’s new magazine and charity

Guo Jingming (郭敬明) and the new Top Novel (最小说) fiction magazine.

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Hu Ge’s new spoof: Action movie dodgy drug infomercial

Hu Ge has a new parody film out.

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The paradox of registering bloggers’ real names
by Wang Xiaofeng

Wang Xiaofeng on a proposed blogger ID verification system: I don’t believe that you can eliminate the sentence ‘fuck your mother’ for even half a year unless China devotes huge, huge resources to controlling such people.

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by Wang Xiaofeng