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BPA Notice Danwei recently obtained a copy of a notice from BPA, the global organization that audits the circulation of print publications (click on image at left to see full text). The notice says that Business Travel magazine (商务旅行) has been kicked off BPA's list of audited publications: While...
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Science Fiction World turns 30 On the morning of April 1, the website of the magazine Science Fiction World posted an announcement that included the following decision: "Li Chang is suspended from his positions as director and editor-in-chief, and day-to-day agency operations are turned over to...
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Science Fiction World turns 30 On the morning of April 1, the website of the magazine Science Fiction World posted an announcement that included the following decision: "Li Chang is suspended from his positions as director and editor-in-chief, and day-to-day agency operations are turned over to...
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Cosmopolitan magazine April 2010 Actress, director and blogger Xu Jinglei , was once China's top blogger , but she is currently number nine on Sina's blog rankings . Her appeal has always been girl next door rather than glamorous or sexy. So her photo on the cover of the April issue of Cosmopolitan...
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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 late last year, took over New Century Weekly ...
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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 in the midst of a cleanup campaign aimed at rooting...
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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, investigative reporting. Although they talk about...
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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 you've got a tank?" (你不就有辆坦克吗), although...
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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 in Beijing ( CN11-5797/Z ) and published under...
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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 Geographic , the Huaxia Dili or Huaxia Geography ...
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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 in 2002 as Chinaweek , an English-language magazine...
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"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 the occasion, many Chinese newspapers and magazines...
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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 of a feature from the April-May "Super China"...
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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 her editor's column (translated below ), Hung...
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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 – 2009." The magazine approaches the conflict...