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Tag Archives: @classic
China’s 50 Most Beautiful People
The Beijing News borrows a picture of Maggie Cheung from Cosmo for the cover of today’s Entertainment insert, “50 Most Beautiful People in China”. Ms. Cheung takes the top spot, with Takeshi Kaneshiro, Little S, Zhang Ziyi, and Liu Ye rounding out the top five in this exercise that is a conscious imitation of People magazine’s yearly rundown.
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Tagged @classic, beautiful people, People
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Asimov Published, Interviewed in Beijing
Cover story from this week’s Book Review section of The Beijing News announces the publication of a Chinese translation of Isaac Asimov’s complete Foundation series. Yup, the Beijing News has scored a fictional interview with “I, Asimov”. They’ve been taking similar liberties recently in their entertainment sections, captioning photographs of celebrities with made-up quotes.
Posted in Books, Newspapers
Tagged @classic, Asimov, Beijing News, literature, science fiction
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An Imperial Personality
This is Mr. Aisin Gioro Zhoudi (爱新觉罗·州迪), who claims to be a distant relative of Puyi, the last emperor of China. Having spent time living in both Taiwan and Hong Kong, he has worked as a bus driver and fortune-teller, but now he seems to be spending most of his time at home in Guangzhou. He’s in the news this week for his willingness to undergo a DNA test to prove his link to the royal family, although it does not seem that many people are doubting him.
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Tagged @classic, Aisin Gioro, Aisin Gioro Zhoudi, Puyi
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People: Nicholas Bonner and his North Korean films
Nick Bonner is one of Beijing’s most eccentric residents, in all the right ways. He is a painter, cartoonist, landscape artist and filmmaker who has been living in the capital for more than fifteen years.
Do whatever the hell you want, as long as you don’t do it on paper or via broadcast
Do whatever the hell you want, as long as you don’t do it on paper or via broadcast
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Tagged @classic, censorship, expatriates
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People: Wang Zhaohui
Wang Zhaohui is the production manager of CCTV 6’s weekly magazine program, World Film Report. World Film Report covers films from all over the world, film festivals and news about directors and actors. Wang answered some questions from Danwei about … Continue reading
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Public intellectuals on the road to debauchery?
Southern People Weekly gets the authorities in a snit with its feature on Public Intellectuals.
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Tagged @classic, public intellectuals, Southern People Weekly, Wang Qishan
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Stifled Laughter: How the Communist Party Killed Chinese Humor
The Chinese government has systematically stifled crosstalk by bowdlerizing its tradition, restricting its natural growth and evolution, and reducing the form to a sycophantic, unsatisfying — and unfunny — shadow of its former self.
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Tagged @classic, crosstalk, humor
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David Moser on Mao impersonators
I first became aware of this phenomenon in 1992 when I turned on a Beijing TV variety show and was jolted by the sight of “Mao Zedong” and “Zhou Enlai” playing a game of ping pong. They both gave short, rousing speeches, and then were reverently interviewed by the emcee, who thanked them profusely for taking time off from their governmental duties to appear on the show.
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Tagged @classic, humor, Impression, Mao Zedong
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