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A Brief Guide to China’s Media Landscape – May 2014

The table below shows mainland China’s most important websites, newspapers, and broadcast news organizations, together with numbers for website traffic, circulation and audience. The numbers are guesstimates based on media reports, listed companies’ public filings, media advertising rate cards, Alexa.com … Continue reading

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A Brief Guide to China’s Media Landscape – February 2014

The table below shows mainland China’s most important websites, newspapers, and broadcast news organizations, together with numbers for website traffic, circulation and audience. The numbers are guesstimates based on media reports, listed companies’ public filings, media advertising rate cards, Alexa.com … Continue reading

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Beijing in my memory, London in my eyes

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published in Chinese on My1510.cn, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s digest proposes to look back at the London Olympics and the commentaries they … Continue reading

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538 million Internet users, mobile access most common

Various numbers about China’s Internet, telecoms and media have been released over the last week or so. CNNIC, a government body that issues reports and statistics on the Chinese Internet, released its mid year report. Some numbers from the report: … Continue reading

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SARFT goes after online video, again

A spokesman for the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) announced yesterday that some original drama series and films on video websites like Youku.com and Tudou.com don’t meet government censorship standards and contain unacceptable dirty language, violence and … Continue reading

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Model Workers 2012

Today we present the Danwei Model Worker Awards 2012, a list of the best specialist websites, blogs and online sources of information about China. The first Danwei Model Worker list came out in 2005. You can find links to all … Continue reading

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Groundhog day in China – Super Girls and the Internet

This morning, a reader drew my attention to an article on Danwei: Alongside the movement for a “civilized” Internet, the anti-Super Girls campaign seems to be picking up steam as well. China Times published an interview yesterday with Liu Zhongde, one of the … Continue reading

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Journalism masters degree at ground zero of the new media wars

Journalism masters degree: This is a shout out to our current advertiser, the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong.

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Microblogs react to Fang Zhouzi’s violent ordeal

Fang Zhouzi (方舟子), the crusader against fraud in academia escaped being beaten up by gangsters yesterday. Today’s Dongguan Times reflects concern in the media world at yet another anonymous attack: the title reads “Who beat up Fang Zhouzi?”

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Veteran China journalist Paul Mooney

A chat about being a foreign journalist in China with Paul J. Mooney, who first came to Asia as a soldier in the Vietnam war, and has worked as a journalist in China since the 1980s. Filmed and edited by Eric Mu.

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