Category Archives: Media regulation

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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Blogspot blocked again

China’s Net Nanny has forgotten to take her meds. In August this year, the Nanny unblocked Blogspot — Google’s popular free blog hosting service that had been inaccesible in China for several years. In the last few days, the Nanny … Continue reading →

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SMS case dropped

Qin Zhongfei has SMS libel charges dropped and receives compensation.

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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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The paradox of registering bloggers’ real names
by Wang Xiaofeng

Wang Xiaofeng on a proposed blogger ID verification system: I don’t believe that you can eliminate the sentence ‘fuck your mother’ for even half a year unless China devotes huge, huge resources to controlling such people.

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12 types of medical ads banned from print media

The General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP) and the State Bureau of Industry and Commerce have banned advertising in print publications for abortions and for treatments for 11 different diseases including AIDS, cancer, syphilis and epilepsy. The ban is … Continue reading →

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Chinese movie sex blog and bloggers’ real names

Findings of the Chinese Movie Nudity Research Center There’s a new hoo haa on the Chinese Internet about new regulations that will require bloggers to register their real names with the authorities. The rumblings about real name registration are emerging … Continue reading →

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Nicholas Tse is too depressing for mainland youth

Nicholas Tse’s new album, Forget Me Not, arrives on the mainland minus its depressing title song.

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Satiric SMS or libel? Writing political poetry in Chongqing

Qin Zhongfei writes a poem satirizing the Pengshui county government and gets arrested.

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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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