Tag Archives: GAPP

GAPP newspaper pirates blogger

Posted on 2007-05-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Wang Xiaofeng erupts at China Press and Publishing Journal stealing one of his essays.

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GAPP to clean up periodicals; Anti-Piracy Office shuts down a magazine

Posted on 2007-05-09 by Joel Martinsen

China New Observer (中国新观察) shut down by GAPP and the anti-pornography and anti-piracy office. Censorship, or punishment for scam running?

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The mystery of the China Digital Newspaper Lab

Posted on 2007-05-04 by Joel Martinsen

The China Digital Newspaper Laboratory (中国数字报业实验室) – a mystery organization under GAPP’s Media Information Institute (媒体情报所). Worse than the National Committee for Oral Health (全国牙防组)?

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Shanda sells gamers a way around the anti-addiction system

Posted on 2007-04-29 by Joel Martinsen

Shanda (盛大) sells its gamers a way around the anti-addiction limitations.

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Pirates are not insulting, say netizens and academics

Posted on 2007-04-08 by Joel Martinsen

Chow Yun-fat is a pirate in Pirates of the Caribbean. This insults the Chinese people, say some. Will SARFT block the film’s release?

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Mr. Sun, I’ll need to see some ID

Posted on 2007-03-20 by Joel Martinsen

China’s national laws on resident documentation do not compel citizens to show ID except in certain limited cases.

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Who killed the movie rating system?

Posted on 2007-03-16 by Joel Martinsen

It was Huang Jianzhong (黄健中), director of Rice (大鸿米店), the film adaptation of the story by Su Tong (苏童).

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Big numbers for a book signing

Posted on 2007-03-05 by Joel Martinsen

Yu Dan (于丹) signs 15,060 copies of Things I Learned from Zhuangzi (于丹《庄子》心得); Wang Xiaobo’s complete works have typos that no one will take responsibility for.

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Gold books on the black market

Posted on 2007-02-13 by Joel Martinsen

Gold books (黄金书) can’t be sold openly, but there is a thriving black-market trade in the popular Spring Festival gift items.

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Wang Shuo sells out and returns to print

Posted on 2007-02-05 by Joel Martinsen

Wang Shuo (王朔) wanted to publish his next work online, but then signed a 3.65 million yuan deal with Rongshuxia (榕树下).

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