Tag Archives: GAPP

Danwei Picks: 2007-11-16

Electoral fraud in Shandong (via GVO), pirated Harry Potter, and an article by Dai Qing in the NYRB about Beijing’s water situation.

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Publishing and pulping the ancient classics

Tons of classic Chinese novels are pulped every year.

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Problems with crazy characters

Can we name our kids ‘@’? A report from the ministry of education (中国教育部《中国语言生活状况报告》). Also, Liu Binjie (柳斌杰) on font sets.

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Supply to dry up for print on demand

POD websites in China (印客网) get regulated by GAPP.

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China’s kings of destruction

Terrorist Meng Jiangnu and environmental monster Lu Ban stack up against Zhuge Liang, who snarled Yangtze River shipping traffic, and the Foolish Old Man, who launched a premeditated attack on the landscape.

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Asia Times: guilty of plagiarism?

She’s not the only one working in the “grey” economy Recently, your correspondent wrote a Danwei post about a study measuring the size of China’s “grey” economy, and its failure to take into account certain types of “grey” income earned … Continue reading

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China’s unfavorable copyright imbalance

GAPP just released a report on the state of China’s publishing industries in 2006. The report concluded that, while China’s copyright-related trade has made strides, the “unfavorable copyright trade imbalance” hasn’t fundamentally reversed. In support of this conclusion, the report … Continue reading

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Xinhua Bookstore’s competitors are both online and in-house

Xinhua Bookstores (新华书店) faces competition from private sellers as well as structural contradictions.

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Equality for foreign periodicals, but there’s a GAPP

Liu Binjie, the man from G.A.P.P. As mentioned earlier on Danwei, the International Federation for Periodical Press (FIPP) just concluded its 36th World Magazine Conference in Beijing. At the conference, GAPP official Liu Binjie promised foreign periodicals that China will … Continue reading

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Death comes for ghost story magazines

Death Note (死亡笔记) and seven other illegal magazines get confiscated by Beijing’s Industry and Commerce bureau.

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