I saw an ad on the subway in Shanghai recently, featuring Audrey Hepburn and LG phones…and i saw the fine print and yes, it seems that the images is legally kosher…but one wonders about these things. It reminds me of when Apple was doing think different and had Martin Luther King, Eleanor Roosevelt, etc. Arthur [...]

Excuse me for being a dick, but I just had to point out this email that I found … someone said that it might be phishing type email, but I think it might be real … I have shopped at Amazon.cn and maybe I inadvertently signed up for their email notifications and newsletters.

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Sure, why the hell not. Like Frank Yi said they copied his way.
I mean the publicly listed Chinese fashion sportswear company, Xtep, whose recent commercials during the Olympics caught my attention because of the music used. The song is called “It’s My Way” and it doesn’t take a New Jersey-born fan of 1980s hair rock [...]

Most students of cultural studies, Middle Eastern studies or the humanities in general are bound to be familiar with the concept of orientalism, the title of the late Edward Said’s watershed explication of the West’s images and discourse of the east and other non-white peoples. There is also a “mirror-image” phenomenon called occidentalism—the cultural [...]

Lenovo’s Olympic ads - BusinessWeek
I think they use completely different ads here in China. The sumo wrestler/Xpad 300 ad is this one:

Here’s even more bleeding edge avant-garde one for the Z60:

And here’s a Chinese one featuring Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi from way back when:

This Xpad 300 one is rather tepid by comparison:
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售房广告称"50万以下身价者恕不接待"引争议(图)_网易新闻中心 via kwout

This ad for some posh Chinese apts featuring pictures of some poncey-ass Chinamen like you’ve never seen raised some hackles because of its main slogan: those that are worth less than 500,000 RMB need not apply. This got some people pissed off because they might not be worth that much at the moment, [...]