Category Archives: Media business

Chinese travel reading: women in prison

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

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Rupert Murdoch and new media in China

你好中国二点零 Danwei’s mentor Rupert Murdoch is talking about China again, and this time he’s on about new media. According to a report on the Australian website of The Advertiser (which Murdoch’s News Corporation owns): News Corporation now sees new media … Continue reading →

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New media old media deals, but not yet in China

From The Spectator: Rupert Murdoch’s Cool New Thing, in which the writer argues that Murdoch is using his recent acquisition of Myspace.com in exactly the right way to make money and benefit his old media businesses. From Xinhua: NBC teams … Continue reading →

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Plagiarism, apologies, and circulation numbers

A decision against Guo Jingming (郭敬明) and in favor of Zhuang Yu (庄羽) in a plagiarism case.

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European filmmakers in Shanghai get confused

Xinhua has published a story on their English wesbite called European filmmakers eye Chinese market. Well hello there European fimmakers, why don’t you eye these: Non-violent Resistance: After Short-lived Hit Run, Da Vinci Code Banished from Chinese Theaters Danwei: Mission … Continue reading →

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Google dumps Baidu shares

Goodbye to Baigoo From the Financial Times: Google sells stake in China’s Baidu Google Inc. has sold its roughly 2 percent stake in rival Baidu.com Inc. on May 25, the market leader in China’s Internet Web search market, according to … Continue reading →

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The great African shmoozefest

Wen Jiabao on a building in Cape Town Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is in Africa on a seven nation tour, visiting Egypt, Ghana, Congo, Tanzania, Senegal, Angola and South Africa. Xinhua is reporting all the usual sentiments about friendly ties … Continue reading →

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Danwei: Socialistic anarchists eating our own babies

Sir Martin ponders the threat of socialist anarchists The previous post about the South China Morning Post’s clueless Internet stategy referred, for balance, to some comments by Martin Sorrell, advertising Borg WPP’s chief, warning media executives against free content. It … Continue reading →

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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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Those happy days when books cost half a kuai

Looking back at a series of 0.5 RMB books.

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