Tag Archives: Super Girls

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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Cui Jian’s concert on the square

A four-song concert given in 1989 by Cui Jian and his band.

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A Super Girl sings Cui Jian

Super Girl finalist Huang Ying sings Cui Jian’s ‘Nothing to my Name’.

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China Media Timeline, an excerpt

What follows is a two-year excerpt from Danwei’s timeline of media and visual culture in China since 1978.

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Reality TV woes and the 2008 China Media Yearbook

The Beijing-based media consultancy CMMI has released the 2008 Edition of their China Media Yearbook and Directory. The excellent “yearbook” section of the publication sports essays with summaries, analysis and forecasts on the development of China’s media and media policy. The book also includes a directory of China media business listings and a host of statistics and graphics on the media industry.

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SARFT’s guide to talent show etiquette

SARFT releases a new notice regarding talent shows (广电总局进一步加强群众参与的选拔类广播电视活动和节目的管理).

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Are the Super Girls gay?
by Dinah Gardner

Or lesbian, perhaps, says singer Qiao Qiao.

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by Dinah Gardner

Hunan TV’s new publicity stunt

Hunan TV has naked girls with eggs, Beijing gets a safety makeover, Olympic rowing looks to reality TV for a coxswain, Ogilvy acquires Black Arc real estate advertising, and Hu Jintao gets a weepy caricature.

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Chinese journalism played by the Super Girls

Latest scandals to hit the Super Girls competition (August 2006), and a translation of a piece by Yang Yu decrying journalists’ lack of objectivity when they participated in the judging.

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If prostitutes could participate in TV talent shows

Wang Xiaofeng comments on Super girls and other TV shows.

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