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Stories tagged with: cartoons (29)

• China Space Mission Article Hits Web Before Launch

  

  From AP:

  A news story describing a successful launch of China’s long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground.

  The country’s official news agency Xinhua posted the article on its Web site Thursday, and remained there for much of the day before it was taken down.

  A staffer from the Xinhuanet.com Web site who answered the phone Thursday said the posting of the article was a “technical error” by a technician. The staffer refused to give his name as is common among Chinese officials.

  The Shenzhou 7 mission, which will feature China’s first-ever spacewalk, ended up launching Thursday from Jiuquan in northwestern China late in the evening.

  Here is cartoonist/blogger Guaiguai’s take on this one:

  

  Translated caption:

  “Get up, my dear!”
  “It is too early to watch Shenzhou 7’s launch. Why do you wake me up?”

  “Early? The Shenzhou 7 has launched…”
  “What? I though it would not launch until the evening of the 25th.”

  “It’s September 27th already. Read this Xinhua report.”
  “But I went to bed on the night of 24th…”

  “It’s really just September 25 today.”
  “Shenzhou 7 must have carried a time-machine, across time and space and made it to September 27th. How powerful our motherland is!”

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  • September 26, 2008 9:03 PM

• Olympics Cartoon: I Am Awed!

  

  From blogtd.org:

  

  Translated caption:

  - “Oh my, the Opening Ceremony is so awesome! Daddy you must really regret that you missed it.”
  (I just changed my pigtails into the shape of two bird’s nests.)

  - If you want to be awed, why don’t you watch stars in the sky.

  - But how can you see any stars in the night sky these days?

  - That’s why I am awed. How huge the screen must be to cover up all these stars! How did they do that?

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  • August 14, 2008 9:01 PM

• Olympics Cartoon: The New Put-down

  

  Referring to the latest lip-syncing scandal at the Opening Ceremony, cartoonist/blogger Guaiguai published a new work on blogtd.org:

  

  Translated caption: “I just learned a new put-down: ‘your look is violating national interests!!!’”

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  • August 13, 2008 10:40 PM

• Cartoon: Watching the Olympic Games

  

  From blogtd.org:

  

  Captions translated:

  - Why do you look so down, young man?
  - I could not get tickets for the Olympic games, so depressing.

  - It’s the same as watching it on TV here. It is on a super large screen.
  - It’s not the same thing.

  - But if you watch games from here, no one will tell you how to dress, what kind of soft drink to drink, what to shout, and what banners to hold. You can do all these things you won’t be able to do at the stadium. Isn’t that cool?
  - Really? That’s excellent.

  - Go China!
  - …… Wait a minute. No nudity here either.

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  • August 6, 2008 8:08 PM

• Cartoon: Netizens’ Olympic Humor

  

  While everyone in China is having an Olympic overdose from official TV stations, newspapers and magazines, there are some comic relief from such images and slogans from witty netizens. Here are two of the latest examples.

  (1) From photobucket.com:

  

  - “My dear, why does your dangerous period for this month have so many days?”
  - “……”

  (2) From He Caitou’s blog:

  

  More Beijing Olympics related online humor are here and here.

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  • August 3, 2008 7:56 AM

• Cartoon: Bus Explosion Anxiety

  

  Although Chinese media are playing down reports of bus blasts in southwestern Kunming, and authorities dismissed a Uighur separatist group’s claims of responsibility for these incidents, many Chinese urban residents start to feel the terror effect while the Beijing Olympics approaches. The following cartoon captured such anxiety. From izaobao.com:

  

  - Why don’t we get on this bus?
  - Something is wrong. Let’s wait for the next one.

  [The ads on the bus reads: "Summer Passion Explodes -JJ Bar"]

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  • July 28, 2008 8:43 PM

• China Extends Prime-time Ban on Foreign Cartoons

  

  In an attempt to provide a favorable environment for the innovation of China’s cartoon industry, SARFT says that from May 1, the prohibition on broadcasting foreign cartoons will be extended for one more hour. From Reuters:

  China will extend its prime-time ban on foreign cartoons by an hour and demand that local television stations seek approval from censors before broadcasting them, the country’s media watchdog said in a circular…

  The watchdog also demanded TV stations observe a daily broadcast ratio of 7:3 for Chinese-made cartoons versus foreign cartoons, as part of a campaign to “provide a favourable environment for the innovation of China’s cartoon industry,” SARFT said in a statement posted on it’s Web site (www.sarft.gov.cn) late on Tuesday…

  The regulation follows an order last week by China’s General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP) to producers to cleanse their broadcasts of ghosts, monsters and other video content made “for the sole purpose of seeking terror and horror”.

  See also AP’s report: China Extends Ban on Foreign Cartoons

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  • February 19, 2008 11:34 PM

• Video: TV Watchlist of a Generation

  

  As China’s first post-reform generation reaches adulthood, “Born in the 70s” nostalgia continues to spread. The latest example is this series of video clips recalling the cartoons and TV dramas of the early reform days, recently posted on various video sharing sites.

  Cartoons of the 70s/80s:

  Three-part series on TV dramas of the 70s/80s:

  Part 1:
  
  Part 2:
  

  Part 3:

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  • January 27, 2008 4:30 PM

• Olympic Events for Chinese Journalists - CPJ

  

  Although the Chinese government has promised greater access to foreign journalists covering the Olympics, domestic journalists may not share the same fate. This cartoon is by Mick Stern at the Committee to Protect Journalists:

  

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  • July 9, 2007 1:03 PM

• Video: My Life as McDull

  

  “My Life as McDull (È∫•ÂÖúÊïÖ‰∫ã)” is the most successful Hong Kong animated feature film so far, which was released in 2001. McDull, the pink cartoon pig character, became very popular in China since then. The stories focus on the life of McDull and reflect the culture and realities of Hong Kong.

  - More info here from Love HK Flim.com

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  • July 4, 2007 6:55 AM

• Sanmao Goes Overseas - Joel Martinsen

  

  From Danwei:

  Sanmao(三毛), the wandering orphan created by cartoonist Zhang Leping in the 1930s, has been adapted for the screen many times over the years.

  The latest adaptation, a live-action movie, is a Sino-Belgian co-production; some fans are worried about the prospect of Sanmao being “updated” and deprived of his Chineseness. Here’s a recent article by Zhang’s son Zhang Rongrong that explains how and why the family decided to grant a Belgian director the rights to the project…[Full Text]

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  • July 3, 2007 5:05 AM

• Cartoon Channel Cancellation Received Mixed Reactions - Josie Liu

  

  From China in Transition blog:

  While the cancellation of a cartoon channel in Zhengzhou, capital of central China’s Henan Province, may not be good news for young children, some parents were happy that it was no longer on air.

  The parents complained that their children spent too much time, including sleep and homework hours, watching the cartoon channel, a subsidiary of Hunan Satellite TV and available in about a dozen Chinese cities. [Full Text]

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  • May 1, 2007 9:47 PM

• “This Is Not Victory!” - Zhao Mu

  

  Blogger Zhao Mu posted an environmental cartoon from Shenzhen Special Zone Daily:

  

  Read Yongfeng Feng’s China’s Deforestation No Longer Driven Mainly By Poverty on the WorldWatch.org
  
  

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  • April 12, 2007 1:01 PM

• A Cartoon for China’s New Generation - Evelyn Iritani

  

  From the LA Times:

  Little P is a red-haired joker with a robot dog and a mind bursting with rebellion. She has a closet filled with tight, midriff-baring clothes. Her biggest worry is getting fat. Meet Bad Girl, a cartoon aimed at a generation of young Chinese raised on a diet of imported video games, Kentucky Fried Chicken and communist rhetoric.

  When Song Yang published his Bad Girl comic book last year, his friends asked whether the character was him in disguise. “I guess I am a lot like her,” said the elfin 25-year-old, dressed in a pair of tight black jeans and a T-shirt. Asked what that meant, he tilted his head and smiled. “I’m naughty.”

  Song, a bad boy with a pen and paper, has the oversized ambition of creating a cartoon character that can help redefine the world’s image of modern China and boost a domestic industry overshadowed by manga from Japan and manhwa from South Korea. China, with its 1.3 billion people, boasts one of the world’s biggest cartoon markets, but the vast majority are imports.[Full Text]

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  • March 18, 2007 9:37 AM

• Cartoon Violence Raises Hackles - Daiwei

  

  From Danwei.org:
  
  

  China’s entertainment media was abuzz last week with the news that CCTV’s children’s channel had halted its broadcast at episode 89 of the Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit (ËôπÁå´ËìùÂÖî‰∏ɉ憉º†) cartoon series. Rumors said that the show was pulled by the authorities for its gratuitous violence and suggestive language - a CCTV staffer disclosed to a reporter that “higher-ups” had called for the halt…

  The show’s been controversial for a while, actually. In January, a parent complained that her son wanted to cut his wrists in imitation of Blue Rabbit’s self-sacrifice in one episode. Then, in early February, someone writing under the name of “Old Egg” posted to several online forums a call for CCTV to pull the plug on the program. [Full Text with Video]

  See the Chinese article as well as the readers’ discussion here.

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  • March 9, 2007 12:18 AM