Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Cultural Revolution reminders from Chinese bloggers

Today is August 8. For people superstitious about numbers, it’s a lucky day. But this day 40 years ago was the start of a disaster. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution formally started on this day. And lasted until October of 1976.

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Foreign newspapers to be printed in China?

This is from a press release from Canadian company called Newspaper Direct, apparently sent out on August 4: NewspaperDirect, Inc. the world leader in digital print-on-demand newspaper distribution, announced this week that it has signed an agreement with Beijing Founder … Continue reading →

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Great careers in prison for editors

New clothes for special police units • The China Daily reports enthusiastically that Li Yuanjiang, the former editor of the Guangzhou Daily is now editing a prison newspaper in the jail where he is currently serving a 12 year term … Continue reading →

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Chinese travel reading: women in prison

Delightfully illicit true-crime magazines sold at China’s bus and train stations.

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Air China’s stock loses altitude

Financial Times on air China and Xinhua on Moebius Strip.

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Media Schizophrenia in China
by David Moser

An original piece from David Moser about a side of the Chinese media environment that is usually ignored by Western commentators, and avoided by Chinese writers working in the Mainland.

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by David Moser

Bus bombs, Israel, Dell and robot chicks in China

CNOOC, John Pomfret, and other topics.

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Israeli attack on UN Observers and a role reversal in Chinese media

Bringing the UN observer home – image from Xinhua Chinese media reaction to Israel’s recent attack on a UN observation post has been surprisingly tame. This is especially clear when comparing the coverage of the incident in the China Daily … Continue reading →

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Celebrating freedom, until the next clampdown

At the beginning of this year, the Freezing Point (冰点) supplement of the state-owned China Youth Daily (中国青年报) was suspended and Li Datong, its editor in chief was sacked. Coming shortly after an editorial shakeup at The Beijing News (新京报) … Continue reading →

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Danwei Noon: Breast enlargement ads, dogs and steel

No longer seen on TV: breast enlargement equipment August 1, 2006 – Danwei Noon, a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China • The Beijing News reports that Chinese TV infomercials for breast enlargment treatments and other … Continue reading →

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