Category Archives: Media business

A Lei Feng two-fer

Why are there so many photos of Lei Feng? What is he doing these days?

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Who should be reading your newspaper?

Zhang Rui of the Beijing Times writes about his reaction to seeing a photo of a beggar reading his newspaper.

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Big Brother and the Net Nanny

Two people involved in “sensitive matters” in China have recently disappeared. One of them is AIDS activist Hu Jia. His wife Zeng Jinyan has started a blog, mostly in Chinese, called Looking for Hu Jia. Yesterday she published a post … Continue reading →

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Rolling Stone China: a dud that will probably succeed

Will Rolling Stone China succeed? (hint: it doesn’t)

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People’s Representatives blog, and the People comment

Chinese government blogging babe The Chinese government is into blogs, big time! As the ‘Two Meetings’ proceed, the events of what the Western media usually calls “China’s rubber stamp parliament” will be reported nearly live by various representatives attending the … Continue reading →

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Foreign involvement in Chinese media: that’s magazines trademark court case

Mark Kitto, founder of the popular that’s series of English magazines, was ousted last year by his state-owned partners, the China Intercontinental Press (CIP). He sued them for a trademark issue, and the case was heard last week Friday in … Continue reading →

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Mainland actors in demand in Hong Kong

Chen Daoming can get more than 100,000 yuan per episode filming TV shows in Hong Kong. He is known to Hong Kong audiences primarily from his appearances in Infernal Affairs 3 and a few mainland soaps that have shown in … Continue reading →

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Adage China

AdAge, the trade journal for the advertising industry, has launched the electronic newsletter AdAge China, going into competition with Hong Kong’s Media magazine which is available in print and electronically, and has up till now been the industry gossip sheet … Continue reading →

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Healthy circulation is good for you

On May 26th, the magazine Collector (收藏家) became the first Chinese publication to openly disclose its circulation numbers and to file an official request for circulation auditing at the recently established National Center of Investigation of New Publication Circulation Data … Continue reading →

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Surprise, surprise: Chinese legends are most popular TV dramas

CSM is a market research firm owned by global market research house TNS and a company controlled by CCTV. CSM has released a report about China’s TV drama industry in 2004 which Xinhua has summarized. These are some of the … Continue reading →

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