Category Archives: Newspapers

Please go elsewhere for prostitution

Posted on 2007-01-24 by Joel Martinsen

A sign in a Beijing subway station prohibits prostitution at that location. Citizens and media react.

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History books get the axe; another Zhang Yihe title falls

Posted on 2007-01-19 by Joel Martinsen

18 January 2007: China’s press authorities ban eight titles, most having to do with history, ‘Past Stories of Actors’ (伶人往事) by Zhang Yihe (章诒和) is among them.

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Little Africa in Downtown Guangzhou

Posted on 2007-01-18 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Bruce Humes on a Cankao Xiaoxi (参考消息) edited translation of an SMCP article by Brandon Zatt.

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Wang Shuo spars with a reporter

Posted on 2007-01-16 by Joel Martinsen

Zhang Yiyi (张一一) accuses Wang Shuo (王朔) of long-term drug use, leading a Mirror reporter to spar with Wang over SMS.

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Falling down on the job

Posted on 2007-01-16 by Joel Martinsen

Newspaper ‘Beijing Today’ invents quotations.

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Ice and politics in Curse of the Golden Flower

Posted on 2007-01-14 by Joel Martinsen

Blogger Lao Huang (老晃) obliquely ties Zhang Yimou’s new Curse of the Golden Flower to the Fourth of June. Taiwan media picks it up. Panic ensues.

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Corruption, terrorism and Saddam

Posted on 2007-01-10 by banyue

Graft and terrorism The headlines on today’s Beijing Youth Daily are two general press releases from Xinhua News Agency, which means most newspapers had to use these articles as their headline stories. Corruption clampdown The first is President Hu Jintao’s … Continue reading →

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Pseudoscience in four glorious colors

Posted on 2007-01-04 by Joel Martinsen

Philosopher Li Ming (黎鸣) threatened to commit suicide if his Laozi-based proof of the Four Color Theorem was wrong. Turns out it is. Also, Liu Zihua’s Eight Trigrams Cosmology (八卦宇宙学理) as an example of the relationship of traditional Chinese culture to modern science.

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A fairy tale in Guangxi

Posted on 2006-12-31 by Joel Martinsen

Guangxi schoolchildren write in to the People’s Daily complaining about fraud perpetrated by their county leadership.

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On not talking about Christmas

Posted on 2006-12-26 by Joel Martinsen

Zeng Pengyu writes about Chinese media not being able to mention Christmas in their reports.

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