Tag Archives: @classic

Slow, polluting seniors removed from Beijing city streets

Zhang Rui writes about a Beijing plan to ban seniors from the city’s streets, with the goal of reducing gridlock among pedestrians.

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A fairy tale in Guangxi

Guangxi schoolchildren write in to the People’s Daily complaining about fraud perpetrated by their county leadership.

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Who has it in for China?

Global People (环球人物) magazine looks at people who have said bad things about China in 2006.

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When corruption investigations were all the rage

An essay inspired by the Gao Qinrong (高勤荣) case looks back at the anti-corruption campaigns of the early 1950s. Also, details about the Huang Yifeng Affair (黄逸峰事件) and a review of party regulations encouraging a critical press….in 1950.

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Learning about America from prison flicks

What Hollywood is teaching the world through prison films and TV shows like Prison Break and The Shawshank Redemption

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Old fables retold: The Tortoise and the Hare

The story of The Tortoise and the Hare (龟兔赛跑) told from a Chinese bureaucratic perspective.

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Street hawker cries of Beijing

Yang Changhe demonstrates hawker’s cries in a video shot by Muzimei.

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Dragons and branding

Should the dragon be retired as China’s national emblem? Were dragons real? Read on…

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These films are not yet rated

Ng See-Yuen (Wu Siyuan, 吴思远) argues that Chinese movies are bland because there’s no rating system in place: they have to be acceptable for everyone, from children to the elderly, and they can’t criticize contemporary society. That’s why there are so many costume dramas.

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Apathy — Glimpses Inside the Chinese Media
by Ann Condi

What do people think when they are shown a tool to help them access off-limits sections of the Internet?

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by Ann Condi