Category Archives: Media regulation

Incest, beauty standards, and manipulating public opinion

A Jiang Wenli ad for Maxam cosmetics has a son saying he’d like to marry his mother. Debate has raged in the Chinese media; feminist commentator Lu Pin says that this is missing the point.

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“Made in China” ban dropped

Ai Jing (艾敬) has a new compilation out that includes Made in China, a song previously banned on the mainland.

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A recipe for intrigue: an opportunistic novelization, an anonymous blurb, and the censorship board

暗算, a novelization of a television series adapted from a novel by Mai Jia (麦家), quotes an anonymous online source for a back-cover blurb. Also, the censorship process in regards to code-breaking subject matter.

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Xinhua’s new rules; foreigners’ old complaints

Xinhua freezes out Reuters for cash; comments from historical and contemporary sources.

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Why Feng Xiaogang shot such a lame Banquet

Feng Xiaogang’s ‘The Banquet’ gets the spoof treatment, SARFT criticizes Lou Ye’s aesthetic sensibility after banning him for five years, The Opposite End of China talks about progress in Xinjiang, and Wang Xiarou writes about bathhouses.

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Leslie’s not dead — he’s become a mountain hermit

Song Zude claims that Leslie Cheung didn’t commit suicide on 1 April. Wen Jiabao boasts about China’s free flow of information.

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Supreme People’s Court issues rules restricting media access

Xinhua had a report yesterday on the Supreme People’s Court’s new regulation on contacts media reports. A ‘spokesman system’ has been established in all Chinese higher courts and the Supreme People’s Court, ostensibly to enhance the transparency of judicial work. … Continue reading →

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Three Gorges movie wins Golden Lion

Still Life (三峡好人) by Jia Zhangke (贾樟柯), and Xinhua’s buisness wire service regulations.

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Who’s responsible for media cover-ups?

An article from the China Times on cover-ups and local governments.

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Who’s doing the censoring, exactly?

Lou Ye gets banned from filmmaking, and workers in a Beijing film processing plant confiscate copies of a movie they think is too sexy.

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