Category Archives: Media business

More Murdoch action in China

Yet another News Corp deal has been announced during Rupert’s current visit; the China Daily reports: China Mobile inks deal with News Corp US media giant News Corp on Saturday clinched a deal with China Mobile, the world’s biggest mobile … Continue reading →

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Low price Fox DVDs

Rupert Murdoch is in Beijing. He is assumed to be here in connection with MySpace’s attempt to set up in China, but perhaps the news below is also part of the reason for his visit: From The Financial Times: “The … Continue reading →

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Rupert Murdoch and Wendy in town for a shmooze

You can’t do it your way Rupert Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendy Deng are in Beijing for a little shmoozing, perhaps connected with News Corp’s increasingly frequent noises about wanting to bring MySpace.com to China. This is how the … Continue reading →

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Nobel translators who don’t translate, and readers who don’t read

A Nobel Literature series is cobbled together from previous Chinese translations. And readers of Pamuk’s ‘My Name is Red’ complain that tey can’t understand it.

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China Businesscast: The Future of Chinese Media

Earnshaw talks about running a lifestyle magazine in China and believes the death of magazines is imminent. The Chinese expression 从无到有(cong2wu2dao4you3), to emerge from nothingness, would be a fair way to describe how traditional and new forms of Chinese media … Continue reading →

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A proposal for a book weight-loss program

Peking University Chinese professor Chen Pingyuan thinks books have gotten too thick.

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Jack Ma: Vision, and fears of a bubble

The elf that roared Last week your correspondent was a panelist at a huge conference in Shanghai about interactive and search engine marketing called Ad:tech. The keynote speaker was Jack Ma (马云), the elfin and charismatic founder and CEO of … Continue reading →

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Hu Ge’s new spoof: Action movie dodgy drug infomercial

Hu Ge has a new parody film out.

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GAPP and book price wars

GAPP calls a halt to a price war between two independent Beijing bookstores, but they don’t really listen.

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China Businesscast: Chinese Word of Mouth with Sam Flemming

Flemming talks of net stars and other commercial trends in the Chinese web How do you sort through the massive noise of millions of messages posted daily on Chinese web forums, aka BBS sites? Sam Flemming, CEO of CIC Data, … Continue reading →

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