Category Archives: Media and Advertising

SARFT throws in with market-driven TV

Remember all of the commotion a few weeks back about a television adaptation of Liang Yusheng’s White-haired Demoness getting rejected by SARFT because too many other similar projects were in the works? It’s all moot now, since SARFT has decided … Continue reading →

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Chinese media and the countryside

The China Daily has published an opinion piece by You Nuo called Media must update on countryside. The article calls for Chinese media to pay more attention to the countryside: Occasionally, when there are articles about the new countryside, like … Continue reading →

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CCTV and Fox launch boring website

Go Rupert go! From CCTV’s English website, found via Shanghai blog China Snippets: CCTV International and CCTV.com formally launched an updated and revamped English website on Tuesday, at English.cctv.com. The newly designed website is expected to better serve Internet surfers, … Continue reading →

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Me Old China

Here’s a new China website that looks promising: Me Old China.

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Youth Weekend launches, The Beijing News retools

A new newspaper launches in Beijing and another one gets a face-lift.

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Expensive old books, faked old books

The price of old books in China has jumped recently, while counterfeiters are turning to more hi-tech methods to generate fake printed material.

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Is the New York Times website blocked in China?

Readers in Shenzhen have emailed to say that NYTimes.com is being blocked. In Beijing it was functioning, although very slowly, and it wasn’t clear if the problem was related to the redesign of Grey Lady’s website or caused by something … Continue reading →

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Danwei TV 4: Super Girl Frenzy

Danwei TV talks to Super Girl fans.

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Sensationalist headlines at the Wall Street Journal: foreign magazines in China

Breathless Wall Street Journal article about foreign mags in China.

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New hairstyle

Danwei has been to the hair salon. There are still plenty of bugs to be worked out. There are supposed to be comments, but they don’t actually work yet. Please tell us what you think: jeremy @ danwei.org.

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