Category Archives: Newspapers

Cartoon violence raises hackles

Posted on 2007-03-08 by Joel Martinsen

Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit (虹猫蓝兔七侠传) gets pulled from CCTV. Censorship?

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Another year, another Lei Feng

Posted on 2007-03-05 by Joel Martinsen

Lei Feng (雷锋) has his day, 2007. A new book, Be Like Lei Feng (像雷锋那样) by Wu Hongmei (吴红梅). Also, why Lei Feng Day should be cancelled.

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Big numbers for a book signing

Posted on 2007-03-05 by Joel Martinsen

Yu Dan (于丹) signs 15,060 copies of Things I Learned from Zhuangzi (于丹《庄子》心得); Wang Xiaobo’s complete works have typos that no one will take responsibility for.

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The return of bike registration greeted with derision

Posted on 2007-03-01 by Joel Martinsen

China’s regulatory authorities announce plans to register all bike purchasers. People laugh dismissively.

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Booklists: things Ming, under-appreciated gems, and over-rated junk

Posted on 2007-02-25 by Joel Martinsen

From Southern Metropolis Weekly, a list of over-rated books from 2006, under-rated books from 2006. Also, Ming Dynasty histories.

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China Specials: Colbert Report and The Times

Posted on 2007-02-15 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Stephen Colbert, one of the hosts of spoof American news program The Daily Show has been doing a series of segments about China. The first one defines China as a “frenemy” of the United States. It’s funny despite the fortune … Continue reading →

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Making corrections, handling statistics

Posted on 2007-02-14 by Joel Martinsen

An old issue of the People’s Daily leads Teng Yun (滕云) to muse about the proper way to deal with facts in the newspaper business.

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Books behind bars – He Dong on restricted literature

Posted on 2007-02-12 by Joel Martinsen

Commentator He Dong (何东) writes about experiences with banned books during the Cultural Revolution.

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When is something newsworthy?

Posted on 2007-02-01 by Joel Martinsen

Wu Fei (吴非) writes about what is and isn’t newsworthy in China.

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Top language errors for 2006

Posted on 2007-01-24 by Joel Martinsen

‘Yaowen Jiaozi’ magazine (咬文嚼字) picks the top errors in Chinese language usage for the year 2006. Also, the complete works of Wang Xiaobo (王小波) published by Yunnan People’s Publishing House is rife with typographical errors.

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