Blog Tag - Media

Mandarin Monday: Tricky Headlines That Blame Victims Rather Than Criminals
More than any other grammatical obstacle, my friends who have studied Chinese always seem to stumble when it comes to correct usage of “被 bèi“ and ”把...
Beijing Bunker: "I Need a Proper Vacation After All This. It Has Been Stressful!"
As Beijing enters its fifth week in self-quarantine, the stories of how people have been dealing with the coronavirus outbreak – by staying, leaving...
Beijing Expats Decry “Click-bait-y” Reports About a Christmas Crackdown in China
Reports of China’s Grinch-iness have been greatly exaggerated. At least that’s what a number of Beijing expats are saying in lieu of international...
Chinese Celebrity and the Soft Power Machine
Celebrity in China is big business. Celebrity feeds off of and nourishes the advertising model that underpins the commercialization of what was long...
We Call Bullsh*t: International Media Sensationalizing Beijing Pollution
Yes, the pollution is sh*t. Yes, we've had a rough couple of weeks, including our current foray into the second ever red alert. But the sheer...
Screentime: James Chau, Television News Anchor
You can catch James Chau on CCTV 9 when he isn't helping the United Nations fight against HIV/AIDS discrimination. We ask him about his TV habits...
Call it a Comeback: Hip Hop Bling King Damon Dash does Beijing
With both the Midi and Strawberry festivals going down this past weekend, hip hop impresario Damon Dash was spotted out and about town taking in...
Google Lockdown Underway?
Google rarely runs smoothly at the best of times in our office, but our friends down at Shanghaiist are reporting that we may now be entering the...
August’s issue of the Beijinger has hit the streets - and to celebrate, armies of journalists, the world’s finest athletes, thousands of tourists,...
In many ways the BBC's Reith Lectures are a classic example of the British public broadcaster's penchant for busying itself with the moral...
Tom Shanahan is the television presenter for the CCTV-9 program Rediscovering China. Below is his first-hand account of reporting on the scene about...
Hey, Democrats! To vote in the primaries for the Democratic party, register at this website today. It doesn’t matter if the primary has already...
that’s Beijing Abstracts columnist and longtime contributor Lee Ambrozy has penned an article on the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), which...
Olympic fever continues this week with news from the Financial Times about a controversy over pigs reportedly reared to help athletes pass doping...
The Guardian: Beijing's "bird's nest" stadium to open in April Test events at the Olympic stadium will start next spring in the run-up the Games in...