Category Archives: Newspapers

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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Chinese medicine strikes back at critics

Ma Youdu from the China Association of Chinese Medicine wants to teach Chinese medicine in schools.

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Beijing opens first gay sexual health clinic

The capital’s first clinic aimed specifically at homosexuals opened in Chaoyang, Beijing, providing free treatment for venereal diseases and tracking AIDS and other STSs

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Attn. China watchers: interpret this black-and-white color photo

A photo in a Chinese newspaper is half black-and-white and half color.

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Water? I’ll need to see some ID.

Some opinion pieces on water conservation in Beijing.

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Shanghai bans “corruption tour” advertisements

“Corruption tours” including “Sanshandao Corrupt Leisure Trip”, “Classic Corruption Official Tour” and “Corruption Lunch” were recently advertised in a Shanghai newspaper by the Yingyun Trading Company of Hongkou district in a local newspaper. Concerned local citizens complained the district Bureau … Continue reading →

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Poets and pig-feed

Qu Yuan, the famous Chinese poet, is a brand of pig feed in Hunan.

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Blasting the Himalayas

Blowing up the Himalayas won’t change the dryness of the west

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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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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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