Tag Archives: Southern Metropolis Weekly

Chiung Yao’s dizzying TV dialogue

Posted on 2007-07-31 by Joel Martinsen

Chiung Yao (琼瑶) talks about her new TV series, Dreams Link (又见一帘幽梦, aka Fantasies Behind the Pearly Curtain II). Video of a saccharine moment.

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Haruki Murakami in Chinese

Posted on 2007-07-09 by Joel Martinsen

Lin Shaohua (林少华) talks about how his translations of the works of Haruki Murakami (村上春树) are received in China.

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Wu Si on the intractable problem of forced labor

Posted on 2007-06-30 by Joel Martinsen

Wu Si (吴思) talks about the history of slaves working in mines and kilns over the last few centuries in China.

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Treason as farce: Yuan Weishi on Yu Quanyu’s seditious speech proposal

Posted on 2007-03-18 by Joel Martinsen

Yuan Weishi (袁伟时) talks about the anti-seditious language proposal (惩治汉奸言论法) put forth by Yu Quanyu (喻权域). What makes a ‘hanjian’?

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Booklists: things Ming, under-appreciated gems, and over-rated junk

Posted on 2007-02-25 by Joel Martinsen

From Southern Metropolis Weekly, a list of over-rated books from 2006, under-rated books from 2006. Also, Ming Dynasty histories.

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Spring Festival keywords

Posted on 2007-02-16 by Joel Martinsen

Some musings on what Spring Festival really means.

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What makes a master?

Posted on 2007-02-11 by Joel Martinsen

A new book by Ji Xianlin (季羡林), Li Ao (李敖) on the mainland’s lack of cultural elite, a six-point definition of a great master in academia, and a review of a new Southern Metropolis Daily book that talks to elderly literary folk, The Last of the Cultural Nobility (最后的文化贵族).

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2006: The year in spoofs

Posted on 2006-12-29 by Joel Martinsen

Southern Metropolis Weekly (南都周刊) runs a year-end issue filled with nothing but spoofs of the major stories of 2006.

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Southern Metropolis Weekly weighs in on the Chinabounder affair

Posted on 2006-09-09 by Joel Martinsen

Cover of the Southern Metropolis Weekly edition of 8 September 2006.

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Assessing the media’s victory over FoxConn

Posted on 2006-09-03 by Joel Martinsen

Journalist Zhang Rui pours cold water on the Chinese media’s victory celebration over FoxConn’s 30-million-yuan suit.

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