Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Harmonious society vs. popular television

SARFT to limit affairs in TV dramas, and also goes after costume comedies.

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Beijing Bookworm Mini Literary Festival

The Bookworm in Beijing is hosting a literary festival next week. Below is the schedule as provided by the Bookworm. One of the events is a panel discussion about Internet publishing; your correspondent is on the panel together with Hung … Continue reading →

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Nearly three million cars in Beijing

News roundup. Xu Jinglei’s blog, new license plates in Beijing, blogs on bullog, and the intercalary month.

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Walmart communism and North Korean nanotech

Bokee shares profits with bloggers, license plates to be regulated in Beijing.

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Chinese journalism played by the Super Girls

Latest scandals to hit the Super Girls competition (August 2006), and a translation of a piece by Yang Yu decrying journalists’ lack of objectivity when they participated in the judging.

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Sex expert’s speech causes spike in double bed sales

Sexologist Li Yinhe August 21, 2006 – Danwei Noon Report, a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China, from Chinese and English sources. Dr Li Yinhe and double bed sales Bokee (Blogchina) has an article that examines … Continue reading →

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Cheat sheet for foreign journalists and PR people

Foreign hacks who don’t read Chinese: your life just got a whole lot easier. The beta version of Search Chinese News in English by Adsotrans has launched. It’s a bilingual search engine that allows you to search Chinese language sources … Continue reading →

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Illegal power

SARFT looks at online video, Xinhua reports on power company regulation.

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Production troubles on a community DV shoot

The movie ‘How can I rescue you, my daughter’ runs into trouble shooting in the Tiantongyuan community in Beijing.

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Kunming city website

Kunming city guide website Go Kunming has launched a redesign.

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