Category Archives: Newspapers

The Economic Observer: Sino-French joint venture stealing Yellow River water?

This is from a recent Time magazine article: A thirst for growth … France is the land of public service par excellence, where a whiff of sacrilege still adheres to the very notion of privatizing basic infrastructure. Trains, hospitals, universities … Continue reading →

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Administrative fees or protection money?

Chengguan (城管) and other government agents take “service fees” from vendors and then turn a blind eye to the regulations.

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A new look for The Economic Observer

The website of The Economic Observer (经济观察报) gets an updated. Yu Hua interview featured.

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State media shenanigans and responsible blogging

Musings on how a translation blog should treat its responsibility toward traditional media. Inspired by news about the famous annual party (评论部年会) thrown by the CCTV News and Commentary Department (中央电视台新闻评论部).

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Degrees, real life, and April Fools

Residents of Pinghe County, Fujian Province (福建省平和县) cannot marry or get a driver’s license without a middle-school diploma. In Beijing, professor Li Baoyuan (李宝元) complains that parents are bringing their children to grad school entrance exams.

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Behind the scenes at Southern Weekly

A new book, ‘Backstage’ (后台), shines light on what goes into a news story at Southern Weekly (南方周末 aka Southern Weekend).

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Who killed the movie rating system?

It was Huang Jianzhong (黄健中), director of Rice (大鸿米店), the film adaptation of the story by Su Tong (苏童).

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Parsing the Babel cuts

Two different news reports on the cuts to the mainland Chinese version of Babel.

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Thoughts on pixelization

Mosaic pixelization is no guarantee of anonymity.

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Self-esteem for domestic cinema

Mirror reports that SARFT frowns on spoofs that attack the film industry.

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