Tag Archives: The Beijing News

Homeowners beaten on the front page

Cover of The Beijing News (新京报) shows guards savagely beating homeowners.

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For sale: A simple dwelling for plain folks. 3.75 million.

Beijing bans ostentatious (炫富) language in real estate ads. Mansion (豪宅), luxury (奢侈), supreme (至尊) and so forth.

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Talent shows applaud the new professional exams; everyone else scoffs

Talent competitions react favorably to the new Ministry of Culture proposal to certify cultural workers; no one else does.

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Wang Shuo sells out and returns to print

Wang Shuo (王朔) wanted to publish his next work online, but then signed a 3.65 million yuan deal with Rongshuxia (榕树下).

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2006 in review: arts & entertainment

Links to SARFT’s rules for movie titles, a 2006 online media quiz, and end-of-2006 entertainment roundups from The Beijing News and China Daily.

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Republishing: protected by Chinese law?

Ever since the launch of Beijing News in November 2003, TOM.com has been quietly re-publishing their news reports.

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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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Characters in the public interest

A PSA spot in The Beijing News listing 100 common writing errors.

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Dancing around a sensitive issue in The Beijing News

The Beijing News does a feature on Dongdan Park that heavily hints at the park’s reputation as a place for cruising without mentioning sexuality a single time.

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Insulting the Monkey King

A Japanese adaptation of the Journey to the West has Chinese netizens and filmographers angry over its unfaithfulness to the book; a blogger comments that JttW may have inspired Tolkien.

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