Tag Archives: New Century Weekly

Many wish good luck to Hu Shuli’s new magazine Century Weekly

Reactions to the change of editorship came in the form of newspaper columns as well as blog posts. Ten Years of Chopping Timber (十年砍柴) is a reporter at Legal Daily. He commented on the move in Southern Metropolis Daily and gave the conclusion that no-one should blame Hu Shuli. An ex-deputy editor of New Century Weekly, Wen Zhang (文章) also blogged about his reaction to the takeover: it satisfied him, he wrote; both posts are translated below.

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How the Nazis brought about the end of the Cultural Revolution

How The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was translated and circulated in China, from the 1960s through the 1990s.

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Have you had your housing flu shots?

New Century Weekly (新世纪周刊) for 1 December, 2007. Housing flu (房流感), fengshui (风水), and the doctor-patient relationship.

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Six decades of Eileen Chang films

New Century Weekly (新世纪周刊) compiles several articles about Eileen Chang 张爱玲 as cover story. The cover girl is Tang Wei 汤唯, who casts Wang Jiazhi 王佳芝, the leading character of the movie.

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How to become famous in China

Some celebrities at the end of 2006.

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News magazines: Sister Hibiscus gets her head shrunk and New Weekly turns 10

A rundown of the major Chinese newsmagazines for the week of 25 August.

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Sakura Momoko and dia

How Chibi Maruko-chan (樱桃小丸子) started the ‘dia’ (嗲) craze among mainland Chinese girls.

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