Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Organs and murder for sale

Illegal ads for organ sales and murder in Beijing and Harbin.

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Publishing in China’s minority languages

Summary of a report from China News and Publishing Journal about problems facing the minority language publishing sector.

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The Fall and Rise and Fall of Danwei’s Mentor, Rupert Murdoch

Newscorp has hit a “brick wall in China,” says Rupert.

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Dancers on the cover of Beijing newspapers on a slow news day

Three Beijing newspapers ran similar front-page photos of fluff on Sunday, 11 June, 2006.

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Is there such a thing as Chinese indie music?

Blogger Wan Yi writes about the sad state of Chinese independent record labels.

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Murdoch retreats, China Mobile advances into TV

Rupert retreats Image from Sydney Morning Herald Mure Dickie of the Financial Times reports: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is to sell a 20 per cent stake in Phoenix Satellite Television, its Hong Kong-based Chinese TV joint venture, to China Mobile, … Continue reading →

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Budgets and boring TV

Sam Flemming and Larry Rinaldi in AdAge.

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Hymens and the Olympics

Naked Gaze ties together Yu Hua, Zhao Yan, and the Olympics.

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China Daily website follies

On May 31 this year, the China Daily copied an article from the Shenzen Daily and published it on their website. The article was titled Tough fines for piracy, and included the following: China said yesterday that it would impose … Continue reading →

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Chinese businessman buys Arab TV station

Wenzhou entrepreneurs: going global The Shanghai Daily published a story today titled: Wenzhou businessman buys Arab TV station. Wenzhou is a city in Zhejiang whose natives are famous for the business acumen. Many of them have gone abroad in search … Continue reading →

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