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Category Archives: Trends and Buzz
Ministry of Communication Problems
The Ministry of Communications (交通部) has an illogical English name. Zhai Hua (翟华) critiques it.
Posted in Advertising and Marketing, Beijing, State media, Transport, Trends and Buzz
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Sex and manufactured scandal: The Blood Sex Tape
A hoax film ‘Blood Sex Video’ (流血的黄色录象): a documentary crew accompanies Liu Zhimin on his bloody quest for vengeance when his girlfriend falls to her death after the couple’s sex tape is released on the Internet.
Posted in Film, Internet, Media and Advertising, Sexuality, Trends and Buzz
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Podcast Pioneers — Antiwave 反波
This episode of Danwei TV’s Hard Hat Show is an interview with Flypig and Ping Ke, the two Chinese bloggers who make the excellent Antiwave podcast. We talk about Antiwave’s birth and history and touch on several subjects, including media … Continue reading
Posted in Beijing, Blogs, Danwei TV, Media and Advertising, Media regulation, Podcasts, Radio, Recently on Danwei, Shanghai, State media, Trends and Buzz
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China in headlines
Below are some recent headlines from mainstream media and blogs. If you read a huge variety of English language media, you can get an idea of the complexity of China’s increasingly diverse society. Of course, most people in the West … Continue reading
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DeWoskin on mistresses
Don’t invite your mistress if she’s coming to dinner Rachel DeWoskin (pictured), author of Foreign Babes of Beijing, wrote an article for The Times of London about mistresses or er nai in China. It’s a few months old already but … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Sexuality, Trends and Buzz
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Wang Shuo spars with a reporter
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.
Posted in Books, Media and business gossip, Mobile phone and wireless, Newspapers, Recently on Danwei, Trends and Buzz
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Ice and politics in Curse of the Golden Flower
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.
Posted in Film, Internet, Media regulation, Newspapers, Trends and Buzz
Tagged 1989, Curse of the Golden Flower, Lao Huang, media regulation, United Daily News, Zhang Yimou
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Sod the iPhone: give us Mac service in China
iDon’tNeed While the hi-tech world is swooning at Steve Jobs’ feet after the dramatic unveiling of Apple’s iPhone, your correspondent is cursing and swearing in front of his Mac keyboard, wishing that Apple’s famous engineers and designers would turn their … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Trends and Buzz
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007 vs Man in Black
Internet star video maker Hu Ge has released an entertaining new video (found via Shanghaiist). Hu is best known for his Internet video spoof of Chen Kaige’s movie The Promise (see ESWN and Danwei for more about the affair). This … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Internet, Media and Advertising, Trends and Buzz, TV
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Dealing with cultural garbage
GAPP vice-director Liu Binjie (柳斌杰) calls for a fight against cultural trash. Netizens ask what that is – should we resist ‘Outlaws of the Marsh’ (水浒传)?
Posted in Books, Media regulation, Scholarship and education, State media, Trends and Buzz
Tagged Beijing Daily Messenger, cultural garbage, culture wars, GAPP, Liu Binjie, Outlaws of the Marsh, People's Daily, Yangcheng Evening News
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