April 23, 2009
Lu Chuan’s long-anticipated movie City of Life and Death (南京南京), a dramatization of the Rape of Nanking in 1937,hit screens yesterday. Today’s Chongqing Times came up with a front page image which combines stills of movie characters with an image of China’s naval fleet. The large photo is captioned in the style of a traditional two-line couplet, printed vertically: “History should be remembered, China should rise.”
Most newspapers put the news about the naval fleet review, scheduled today to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the PLA Navy, onto the front page.
Underneath the Chongqing Times photo are three smaller headlines:
- A pig variety originally raised in the US (where it is apparently known as the “King of Pigs”) was recently introduced to the city by a local company. According to the article, the variety resembles beef.
- Du Minlian, vice director of the endocrinology department of the Chinese Pediatrician Association, said that the age that puberty begins for Chinese girls is now 9.2 year old, 3.3 years younger than 30 years ago.
Du said that contributing factors include improved nutrition, increased intake of sex hormones from food and medicine, and environmental pollution from chemicals that have hormone-like effects.
- Yang Dongping, a professor from the Beijing Institute of Technology, recently made a blog post criticizing Chinese parents’ frenzied enthusiasm about the Math Olympics. The small headline on the right reads: “BIT professor bashes the Math Olympics as ‘more horrible than pornography, gambling, and drugs’.”
- Chongqing Times (Chinese): History should not be forgotten; China will rise