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

New Century Weekly . December 11, 2009 New Century Weekly . December 21, 2009 New Century Weekly . January 1, 2010 Century Weekly . January 4, 2010. Image: Source Hu Shuli, China's "most formidable editor" who was in charge of Caijing until...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2010 2:45 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Dongguan's ISO sex industry

Southern Metropolis Weekly December 4, 2009 Rejected cover This week's issue of Southern Metropolis Weekly presents an extensive cover feature on the sex industry in Dongguan, a manufacturing center in Guangdong Province. The city seems perpetually...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2009 3:48 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Danwei talks to Caijing about the public's right to collect information

Li Xin, English editor at Caijing Caijing magazine has a formidable reputation in Chinese media circles. They reported straight away when the Green Dam "delay" notice came from Xinhua last night, and has held onto their reputation for hard,...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2009 5:00 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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So Rock! says "never mind the machine"

The June issue of So Rock! magazine (我爱摇滚乐) has a modified version of Edvard Munch's The Scream on the front cover, and a t-shirt on the back: So Rock! magazine, June 2009 back cover Under the silhouette of a tank on the t-shirt is the line "So...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2009 11:55 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Reading Style: Another dodgy digest magazine launches in Beijing

Reading Style , June 1, 2009 The white cover showing a shot-through cleaver hanging from a noose belongs to the launch issue of Reading Style (精品阅读), a new magazine jointly sponsored by the Publishers Association of China and China Youth Press. Registered...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2009 3:56 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Launch issue of China National Geography English edition

China National Geography , Chinese edition, was started in 1949 and has been regarded as China's response to the American National Geographic , with the font and the theme matching the American magazine. But there is a Chinese edition of National...

Published Sun, May 05 2009 3:12 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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A news weekly that believes in China

China Weekly launch issue, May 5, 2009 A nearly brand-new newsweekly was launched this month. The Time -esque red-bordered covers of China Weekly (中国周刊) appeared on newsstands in China's major cities on May 5. The new magazine was actually founded...

Published Sat, May 05 2009 1:04 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Today's new youth

"La Jeunesse" supplement to Life , April 2009 May 4, 2009, marks the 90th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, student protests launched in 1919 against Chinese government capitulation to concessions and unfavorable treaty terms. To mark...

Published Mon, May 05 2009 4:19 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Toilets and trashy motel rooms in a new arts magazine

O'ZINE 符号 April-May 2009 A series of staged photographs set in a fleabag motel has captured the attention of Chinese Internet over the past two weeks. The photos, which had circulated without any information as to their creator, turned out to be part...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2009 12:30 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Red guards and brand fundamentalism

iLook , April 2009 The cover feature of the April issue of iLook magazine (世界都市) is titled "Brand Red Guards and Shanzhai Rebel Groups" (品牌红卫兵和山寨造反团, translated on the cover as "Brand Fundamentalists and Rebels with a Parody"). In...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2009 6:15 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Three decades after the Sino-Vietnamese War

Phoenix Weekly April 5, 2009 The thirtieth anniversary of the start of the Sino-Vietnamese war was observed this past February 17. The current issue of Phoenix Weekly includes an extensive cover feature of what it calls "The Forgotten War: 1979 ...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2009 7:00 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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In search of UFOs

The Journal of UFO Research March 2009 The Journal of UFO Research , China's premier publication devoted to investigating the paranormal, has gotten a makeover. The magazine, now printed in full-color, appears to no longer be an embarrassment to its...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2009 12:36 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Goodbye Koreatown

Faux-Korean on CBNweekly , March 16, 2009 Beijing and Shanghai are home to tens of thousands of Korean nationals whose lives and businesses have been hit hard by the snowball effect of the downturn. The Korean won's decline against the RMB forced...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2009 11:08 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Italian women's magazine Grazia's first China issue

The first Chinese issue of Grazia Grazia 's Chinese edition is called 红秀 Grazia , and its first issue came out on February 11. Grazia has been circulating in Italy since 1938, and has been reproduced all over the world, in countries such as Australia...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2009 4:25 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Black power in a Chinese men's magazine

Maňgazine , January 2009 Inspired by the "color revolution" that installed Barack Obama as president of the United States, the January issue of the men's lifestyle magazine Mangazine is all about "Black Power." Forty pages are...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2009 12:44 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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

Dongguan's ISO sex industry

Danwei talks to Caijing about the public's right to collect information

So Rock! says "never mind the machine"

Reading Style: Another dodgy digest magazine launches in Beijing

Launch issue of China National Geography English edition

A news weekly that believes in China

Today's new youth

Toilets and trashy motel rooms in a new arts magazine

Red guards and brand fundamentalism

Three decades after the Sino-Vietnamese War

In search of UFOs

Goodbye Koreatown

Italian women's magazine Grazia's first China issue

Black power in a Chinese men's magazine