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Sensitive earthquake advertising

Today’s Southern Metropolis Daily (南方都市报) ran a special edition for yesterday’s earthquake. A few changes were made on the front page design to cope with this special occasion.

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Spiritual pollution in 1982

A 1982 article about sexy advertising upsetting a worker.

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A failed viral ad: the Lenovo red laptop girl

A failed Lenovo viral ad campaign, which purported to stalked a pretty young woman with a laptop.

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Ambush Youtube Olympic marketing

An Olympic video clip used for nefarious ends.

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Why Tom Doctoroff is wrong about China

A video interview with Paul French about Tom Doctoroff and Carl Crow.

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But what type of books should we read?

GAPP, the Propaganda Department, and the Office of Spiritual Civilization remind you to read a book tomorrow.

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Everyone needs a new home

An ad for Top Town, a Beijing housing development

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American Apparel in China

Clothing brand American Apparel to set up shop in China, selling U.S. made clothes.

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Eat my meat

Eye catching adverts for a steak restaurant in Wangfujing in Beijing.

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Mirror Media

Clean hands and magazine covers This article and the photographs are by guest contributor David Drakeford. Yue Lu is a trendy mid-price Beijing restaurant owned by the highly successful ‘cynical realist’ painter Fang Lijun (方力钧) who is best known for … Continue reading

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