|
Foreign media on China
A new twist on an old clichéPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, October 29, 2007 10:18 AM
In 1995, when your correspondent arrived in China, the Western press was publishing stories about about the "sexual revolution" in China symbolized by the opening of sex shops that sold vibrators and aphrodisiacs. Since then, the foreign press has never tired of noting that Chinese people do, golly gosh, enjoy sex. Japan's Mainichi Daily News has just published another such story. Although the article contains nothing new and is not worth reading, the headline is inspired: The 'Sleeping Dragon' next door wakes up with a woody. |
Partner Links
Jobs in China
Recent Comments
Gareth on
Gamble your life away in ZT Online
Inst on
The Mouse looms over Shanghai
Anonymous on
Giant Mao Zedong stands alone in the autumn cold
Joel Marti on
A centenarian monk reads the newspaper
little Ale on
Those damned English experts
China Media Timeline
Major media events over the last three decades
Danwei Model Workers
![]() Recommended blogs and new media
Books on China
Xujun Eberlein's Apologies Forthcoming: Hong Kong's Blacksmith Books has published a short story collection by Xujun Eberlein.
Princess Der Ling: Two Years in the Forbidden City: Two years in the Forbidden City is largely a reminiscence of the minutiae of life for one of history's most powerful women, by one of her court attendants, a Manchu noble's daughter by the name of Der Ling.
Carl Crow's The Long Road Back to China: In 1939 Carl Crow - an American journalist, advertising executive and author who had lived in Shanghai for 25 years until forced out by the Japanese - travelled up the Burma Road from Rangoon to Chongqing on assignment for Liberty magazine - 'the most interesting assignment I have ever been given'.
Front Page of the Day
A different newspaper every weekday
From the Vault
Classic Danwei posts
+ The Dazhai Spirit gets religion (2007.10): In a Window of the South (南风窗) feature on model village Dazhai (大寨), Li Xiangping (李向平) writes about the role religion, in the form of the Pule Temple, plays in the village's changing identity. + Will the Boat Sink the Water? a review by Göran Leijonhufvud (2006.11): Göran Leijonhufvud, former China correspondent of several Scandinavian newspapers, is now researching village elections in minority nationalities areas in Yunnan. + One Country, Two Versions (2005.02): CEPA eases co-productions between the mainland and Hong Kong, but does it undermine creativity?
Danwei Archives
Danwei Feeds
Via Feedsky
or Feedburner |





Comments on A new twist on an old cliché
They must enjoy "IT"...they have the largest population...DUH!!!!!!!!!!!
Large population means they do it often, with great productivity, like burger flippers in Macdonalds making burgers. That is no indication of "enjoy"ment.
"That is no indication of "enjoy"ment."
---JOHN
Of course they enjoy it...most of the Chinese are not Catholic like myself
long stretches without major wars--> large population.