Tag Archives: @classic

Chicken blood injections and other health crazes

Zhang Wuben wasn’t the first purveyor of peculiar miracle cures. In the mid-20th Century, Chinese citizens endured fads of chicken blood injections, kombucha, water, and hand-waving.

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Science Fiction World topples its editor-in-chief

Science Fiction World topples its director.

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Slogans on Tiananmen Gate

In response to Daniel Gross, a look at how slogans have changed on Tiananmen and Xinhuamen.

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Object lessons in human cruelty

Wu Fei, an essayist and educator, uses the inclusion of Schindler’s List in a middle school textbook as the starting point for a discussion about the dehumanizing effect of on-screen killing, from televised executions intended to calm the anger of the public, to war movies that feature graphic violence.

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Three decades of public life in rural Jiangxi

Xiong Peiyun writes about television, gambling, and religion in the small village where he grew up.

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In Wang Shuo’s No Man’s Land

Geremie Barme addresses Wang Shuo’s 千万别把我当人.

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Don’t ask so laowai don’t have to tell

An essay was written by Geremie Barmé, scholar, filmmaker and author of the new book The Forbidden City.

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CCTV’s gatekeepers discuss TV drama censorship

Oriental Outlook reports on CCTV’s in-house tv censors.

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National Geographic goes Chinese

An American publication portraying China to the Chinese – in Chinese? Not surprisingly, the choice of topics reveals certain China tropes that have gained currency in the West.

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Willow fluff and trashy romance novels

Flying Catkin (飞絮) by Zhang Ziping (张资平) has echoes in today’s publishing landscape.

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