Tag Archives: @classic

Two decades of profitable Chinese book agents

Posted on 2007-05-14 by Joel Martinsen

An Min (安民) writes in Southern Weekly (南方周末) about Chinese book agents (书商) and Xue Mili (雪米莉).

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Yu Dan: defender of traditional culture, force for harmony

Posted on 2007-05-08 by Joel Martinsen

Yu Dan (于丹) gets criticized by ‘real scholars’. He Dong (何东) writes in her defense, saying that TV program hosts are the ones who ought to be upset. Zhao Yong in Southern Metropolis Daily writes that she upholds the mainstream government line.

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Zhu Dake on literature and literary prizes

Posted on 2007-04-20 by Joel Martinsen

Cultural critic Zhu Dake (朱大可) talks about online literature and the Nobel Prize (诺贝尔奖).

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Private argot in the public sphere

Posted on 2007-04-16 by Joel Martinsen

YWeekend (青年周末) comments on slang in subtitles. Wu Fei (吴非) writes about gang language and cultural revolution slang.

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Ex-cons writing about prison life

Posted on 2007-04-10 by Joel Martinsen

Four Walls (四面墙) by Zhang Chunlei (张春雷 aka 哥们儿), Female Psychologist (女心理师) by Bi Shumin (毕淑敏), and two prison blogs.

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SARFT uncovers a poisoned apple

Posted on 2007-03-28 by Joel Martinsen

Chang Ping (长平) on SARFT’s criticism of Lost in Beijing (苹果 aka Apple), Still Life (三峡好人), and Thirteen Princess Trees (十三棵泡桐).

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Yu Qiuyu: why book reading is a waste

Posted on 2007-03-27 by Joel Martinsen

Yu Qiuyu (余秋雨) comments on National Reading Day (国家阅读日) and raises a ruckus.

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What’s wrong with Thirteen Princess Trees?

Posted on 2007-03-24 by Joel Martinsen

The movie Thirteen Princess Trees (十三棵泡桐) directed by Lu Yue (吕乐) is delayed for a second round of review by the China Film Bureau.

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2006 in review: arts & entertainment

Posted on 2007-01-07 by Joel Martinsen

Links to SARFT’s rules for movie titles, a 2006 online media quiz, and end-of-2006 entertainment roundups from The Beijing News and China Daily.

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Pseudoscience in four glorious colors

Posted on 2007-01-04 by Joel Martinsen

Philosopher Li Ming (黎鸣) threatened to commit suicide if his Laozi-based proof of the Four Color Theorem was wrong. Turns out it is. Also, Liu Zihua’s Eight Trigrams Cosmology (八卦宇宙学理) as an example of the relationship of traditional Chinese culture to modern science.

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