Sparrow poster

Kelly Lin

http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/p/2008-06-16 ... 1552.shtml

Stills of Painted Skin Made Public
September release planned


Sun Li, Zhou Xun

http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/06/16/1321@369521.htm
http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2008-06-16/03482061365.shtml

Carnival of Seoul
A Dirty Carnival impresses with old fashioned storytelling and some self-reflexive trickery
http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/080613/art ... ntID=93546

Typhoon Blows
Typhoon tackles 21st century political intrigue by channeling Hollywood -- and not in a good way
http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/080613/art ... ntID=93604

Mei Lan Fang scheduled for December release
Gillian Chung missing from promotional materials?
http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2008-06-16/10012061563.shtml

Jacky Cheung, Josephine Siao Fong Fong promote children's safety on Father's Day

http://ent.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/news/sho ... 896&ct=pic
http://ent.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/news/sho ... 885&ct=pic
http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/h/p/2008-06-16 ... 1455.shtml

Eason Chan in Malaysia concert

http://ent.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/news/sho ... 895&ct=pic

Tony Leung, Carina Lau Getting Married
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/06/16/1261@369524.htm

Supermodel/actress Rosemary

http://ent.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/news/sho ... 875&ct=pic
http://ent.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/news/sho ... 898&ct=pic


A Touch of Disney for China’s Pandas
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2008/ ... lenews_wsj
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111798 ... Id=19&cs=1

TV: China seen through eyes of young adults
'Young and Restless in China'
http://www.mercurynews.com/tv/ci_9599986

Kadokawa asks site to cut links to fansubs
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/6278/1/

Olympic Games Still a Puzzle
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/6277/1/

China puts mourning on screen
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/6279/1/

Anger at police strip-search of domestic helper
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... con_type=1

Olympic Games Still a Puzzle
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/6277/1/

Some less well organized repression in Olympic history:

http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11090825

Nice find, Ed.

Hopefully history won't repeat itself, but it'll be difficult not to expect some . . . digressions . . . during the upcoming games.

I gotta admit, the myopic "four part Olympic cheer" outlined in the Variety article gave me a case of fish-eye. I sincerely hope we'll see Chinese spectators doing their own thing once in a while when the cameras pan the crowds. Plenty of sport fans the world over seem quite capable of whipping up cheers on their own when enough of 'em are gathered together, but to issue a manual created by no less than three government agencies . . .

Brian wrote:

but to issue a manual created by no less than three government agencies . . .

I've heard that some really great work has been done by the Communist Party's Office of Spiritual Civilization Development & Guidance