Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Finding occupants for the Red Mansions

Posted on 2007-05-25 by Joel Martinsen

He Dong (何东) posts about the casting contest for Dream of the Red Mansions (红楼梦中人).

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Foreigners surveyed about Chinese cinema

Posted on 2007-05-23 by Joel Martinsen

A survey from Movie World magazine (电影世界) about foreign viewers’ opinions on Chinese cinema.

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For sale: A simple dwelling for plain folks. 3.75 million.

Posted on 2007-05-21 by Joel Martinsen

Beijing bans ostentatious (炫富) language in real estate ads. Mansion (豪宅), luxury (奢侈), supreme (至尊) and so forth.

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Chen Xiaoxu’s death rumored, confirmed

Posted on 2007-05-19 by Joel Martinsen

Chen Xiaoxu (陈晓旭) is reported dead by controversial blogger Mianbeiren (棉被人). Denounced as a rumor, the story is confirmed by her family a few days later.

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An American apprentice barber in Fuzhou

Posted on 2007-05-19 by Jeremy Goldkorn

70 hours a week for 24 cents an hour Benjamin Ross is an American blogger, originally from Kansas City, now working for a month as a trainee (学徒) at a barber shop in Fuzhou and writing about 7 work day … Continue reading →

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One more reason to hate those flat-panel ad screens

Posted on 2007-05-18 by Joel Martinsen

LCD advertising screens like those installed by Focus Media raise temperatures by 6 to 8 degrees Celcius in elevators.

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Yu Guoming on Internet politics

Posted on 2007-05-17 by Joel Martinsen

Yu Guoming (喻国明) interviewed in Globe magazine (环球).

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Comrades, Flush!

Posted on 2007-05-16 by Joel Martinsen

同志们，冲啊！ found on toilet walls in several places in China. A funny piss-take on a revolutionary slogan, or an insult to heroic martyrs?

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The Times to Murdoch-bashers: We’re doing fine

Posted on 2007-05-15 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Below is the text of a letter from Robert Thomson, editor of The Times of London, to Jim Ottaway, whose family founded Ottaway Newspapers, now owned by Dow Jones. This letter is in connection with various complaints about Rupert Murdoch’s … Continue reading →

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Death comes for ghost story magazines

Posted on 2007-05-15 by Joel Martinsen

Death Note (死亡笔记) and seven other illegal magazines get confiscated by Beijing’s Industry and Commerce bureau.

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