Tag Archives: Mirror

Should He Zhili be forgiven for playing for Japan?

He Zhili (何智丽), aka Koyama Chire (小山智丽), is the subject of a nationalist editorial by Hu Ziwei (胡紫微).

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Making corrections, handling statistics

An old issue of the People’s Daily leads Teng Yun (滕云) to muse about the proper way to deal with facts in the newspaper business.

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Books behind bars – He Dong on restricted literature

Commentator He Dong (何东) writes about experiences with banned books during the Cultural Revolution.

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Musings about money

A free exhibition requires ID to buy a ticket, but a scalper’ll give you one for 10 kuai. No one wants to run free schools. Shanghai gives 2.5 yuan a month to parents of only children.

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Guo Jingming’s new magazine and charity

Guo Jingming (郭敬明) and the new Top Novel (最小说) fiction magazine.

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Misleading hutong names

A list of street names in Beijing that have changed significantly from their original meanings.

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Online video tainted by spoofs

Translation from Qiu Ao, and bits from the Legal Mirror about the SARFT regulations on personal internet video.

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Organs and murder for sale

Illegal ads for organ sales and murder in Beijing and Harbin.

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Reporting on the World Cup, this millennium and last

Interesting attitudes from Chinese sports reporters at the World Cup in Germany.

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Beijing cleans up its sign translations

Racist Park and other Chinglish signs ‘vanish’. Then, Beijing looks to cleaning up uncomfortable Chinese place-names as well.

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