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The Three Stooges in China

“Can you do the laugh?” I ask him. “You know, that laugh?” He nods. He knows what I’m talking about. “Nyuk nyuk nyuk!” he suddenly erupts, in an imitation of Curly so compelling that I’m suddenly transported from Beijing to my family’s living room floor in Eureka, Kansas, circa 1959…

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People: Tina Liu

Tina Liu is Hong Kong’s most prominent image stylist, but her mercurial career has involved her in almost every aspect of Hong Kong’s media world.

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Southern loving: the rise and fall of an independent media entity

Washington Post article on Cheng Yizhong, Yu Huafeng, and the beleagured Southern Metropolis Daily (南方都市报) newspaper.

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People: Lolita Hu

Novelist, essayist, editor of Playboy, frequent traveller to India: Lolita Hu life does not match with what you imagine when you first hear her English name.

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Ben Marcom Weekly: Sex appeal in Chinese advertising

Most Chinese people will remember a TV commercial for a gum called Qing Zui with the opening line of: “Do you want to feel the taste of kissing?” Advertising using explicit sexual messages did not go further on Chinese TV: … Continue reading →

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Ben Marcom Wednesday: Grannie Wang and the IT industry

There’s a Chinese saying ‘Grannie Wang boasts about her melons in order to sell them’ (王婆买瓜,自卖自夸). In other words, she blows her own trumpet, so you can’t really believe her when she says the melons are tasty. So what does Grannie Wang do? Well, she can hire a ‘tuor‘ ( 托儿) and a ‘muliao‘ (幕僚). A tuor is a kind of tout employed to say good things about a company or product to entice customers; muliao is an old Chinese word meaning an advisor to a high official or general.

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People: Chen Daming, director

Chen’s own life story could be rich material for a feature film. After being rusticated from the Henan Opera School, he was forced to move away from Kaifeng to look for work. The Film Academy is the most prestigious film school in China, counting the directors Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige among its alumni, and competition for place to study there is fierce. Chen Daming came to Beijing for an audition, and was accepted after three auditions.

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People: Dirk Eschenbacher, Ogilvy One

Dirk Eschenbacher is Ogilvy One’s Regional Creative Director for Asia Pacific, in charge of all interactive creative in the world’s fastest-growing online marketing environment. Originally from Munich, he has been in Asia for six years. After living in Thailand for three years running his own web design studio, he moved to Beijing to join Ogilvy One.

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New Weekly: Do Chinese kids know anything about traditonal Chinese culture?

Q: Do you know what China’s four great inventions are? Paper, printing, the compass and gunpowder 49.3% know all four, 37.3% get one or more wrong, 13.3% don’t know at all (2004.06.12)

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People: Chen Guanzhong (aka Chan Koonchung)

John Koon-chung Chan profiled; He is one of the most experienced players in Chinese media, having founded magazines, written and produced feature films and TV dramas, started and run a satellite TV station, and written novels, collections of essays and even a treatise on Marxist literary criticism.

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