Category Archives: State media

A curious correction

Posted on 2006-12-21 by Joel Martinsen

Oriental Outlook (瞭望东方周刊) apologizes for saying that the Guizhou provincial propaganda department issued a directive barring interviews over a murder case.

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Who has it in for China?

Posted on 2006-12-20 by Joel Martinsen

Global People (环球人物) magazine looks at people who have said bad things about China in 2006.

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Sketch of a media blackout

Posted on 2006-12-18 by Joel Martinsen

A look at the blackout China’s internet cops have put out on info about Gao Qinrong (高勤荣).

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When corruption investigations were all the rage

Posted on 2006-12-18 by Joel Martinsen

An essay inspired by the Gao Qinrong (高勤荣) case looks back at the anti-corruption campaigns of the early 1950s. Also, details about the Huang Yifeng Affair (黄逸峰事件) and a review of party regulations encouraging a critical press….in 1950.

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SMS-gate II: High school edition

Posted on 2006-11-28 by Joel Martinsen

In a redux of the Qin Zhongfei case, two teachers in Anhui province get jailed on libel charges for sending an SMS to county leaders criticizing their principal.

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Dead air at China National Radio

Posted on 2006-11-26 by Joel Martinsen

A transmission break at China National Radio and anecdotes about the culture of armed guards at the station’s headquarters.

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The Chinese Writers’ Association: what good is it?

Posted on 2006-11-17 by Joel Martinsen

Tie Ning becomes president of the Chinese Writers’ Association. Is it nothing more than a useless political organization, as Wang Lixiong alleges?

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Yu Qiuyu on cross-cultural communication

Posted on 2006-10-28 by Joel Martinsen

A piece by Yu Qiuyu (余秋雨) adapted from a presentation given at August’s 2006 Cross-Cultural Communication Forum.

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Hu Ge’s new spoof: Action movie dodgy drug infomercial

Posted on 2006-10-26 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Hu Ge has a new parody film out.

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Incest, beauty standards, and manipulating public opinion

Posted on 2006-10-16 by Joel Martinsen

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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