Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Tom Cruise tarnishes Shanghai’s image?

Xinhua reports on Mission Impossible III and Shanghai’s hypersensitivity: Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible III” may find it impossible to enter China market The much-anticipated film “Mission: Impossible III” may be kept out of China for “tarnishing the image of Shanghai,” Shanghai-based … Continue reading →

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African Boots of Beijing screening tonight and Saturday in Beijing

African Boots of Beijing is a documentary film about an African soccer team in Beijing. Handled with Care is a short documentary about Chinese export porcelain that was taken to Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries by the Swedish … Continue reading →

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Images of socialist morality: patriotism

Public service ads for China’s most recent political campaign.

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Bilingual brands: Love in the time of IKEA

Is IKEA china playing love games with its local competitor? IKEA opened its first store in China in 1998. AIKA, one of its biggest local competitors, uses a brand name that is disturbingly similar to that of the Swedish giant. … Continue reading →

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Wait, what’s the name of this magazine again?

How publishers manipulate publication licenses (国内统一刊号), along with an interactive gallery of Chinese magazine covers.

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Beijing Midi Music Festival video podcasts

Bokee.com has uploaded a series of 28 videos of last week’s Midi Music Festival. The videos were shot with a handheld DV camera. It seems that most of the performers are included. All the videos are in Windows Media Player … Continue reading →

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Photos of Liu Xiang and flying cranes

Only 60% of ‘My Heart is Flying: A Liu Xiang Photobook’ (我心飞翔·刘翔写真集) concerns the Olympic hurdles champion. The rest talks about cranes, the emblem of the Baisha tobacco company. Is this symptomatic of problems within the Chinese celebrity endorsement system?

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The cost of marketing a young web author

Marketing figures for the print version of young author Lin Qianyu’s online novel Carefree: A Crusade Legend (林千羽, 《逍遥·圣战传说》), serialized on Sina and published by Zhaohua Press.

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Gnawing at language, biting the ankles of Chinese media

A look at the Chinese magazine ‘Correct Language’ (咬文嚼字 – ‘Yaowen Jiaozi’) and language pedantry.

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China not in top ten of censored countries

The Committee to Protect Journalists (based in New York) has released a list of the ten most censored countries in the world. They are: 1. North Korea 2. Burma 3. Turkmenistan 4. Equatorial Guinea 5. Libya 6. Eritrea 7. Cuba … Continue reading →

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