Tag Archives: @classic

Insulting the Monkey King

Posted on 2006-11-21 by Joel Martinsen

A Japanese adaptation of the Journey to the West has Chinese netizens and filmographers angry over its unfaithfulness to the book; a blogger comments that JttW may have inspired Tolkien.

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The Chinese Writers’ Association: what good is it?

Posted on 2006-11-17 by Joel Martinsen

Tie Ning becomes president of the Chinese Writers’ Association. Is it nothing more than a useless political organization, as Wang Lixiong alleges?

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Will the Boat Sink the Water?
a review by Göran Leijonhufvud

Posted on 2006-11-10 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Göran Leijonhufvud, former China correspondent of several Scandinavian newspapers, is now researching village elections in minority nationalities areas in Yunnan.

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a review by Göran Leijonhufvud

Yu Qiuyu on cross-cultural communication

Posted on 2006-10-28 by Joel Martinsen

A piece by Yu Qiuyu (余秋雨) adapted from a presentation given at August’s 2006 Cross-Cultural Communication Forum.

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Dreck, the new bestseller by your local party secretary

Posted on 2006-10-25 by Joel Martinsen

Li Dalun writes books, Yu Qiuyu gives advice on officials writing, and two columnists discuss the corruption involved in publishing officials’ works.

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Writing and packaging young adult fiction for teenage girls

Posted on 2006-10-14 by Joel Martinsen

YA novels for girls, featuring GirlneYa vs. Xiao Nizi.

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Putting animal protection in the dictionary

Posted on 2006-10-11 by Joel Martinsen

Animal protection advocates in China are upset at definitions in the Xinhua Dictionary that refer to the tasty flesh of animals.

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The ‘national’ in National Day

Posted on 2006-10-05 by Joel Martinsen

Xiao Feng writes about China’s national flavor, national curse, national bird, national car, and so forth, Dongfang Yu writes on the true meaning of China’s National Day in the age of angry youth.

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A recipe for intrigue: an opportunistic novelization, an anonymous blurb, and the censorship board

Posted on 2006-09-19 by Joel Martinsen

暗算, a novelization of a television series adapted from a novel by Mai Jia (麦家), quotes an anonymous online source for a back-cover blurb. Also, the censorship process in regards to code-breaking subject matter.

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Who’s doing the censoring, exactly?

Posted on 2006-09-04 by Joel Martinsen

Lou Ye gets banned from filmmaking, and workers in a Beijing film processing plant confiscate copies of a movie they think is too sexy.

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