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Antisemitism or pure idiocy in New Weekly? (China)
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| 06.15.05
| Jeremy Goldkorn
Posted on 06/15/2005 5:39:30 PM PDT by Dr. Marten
Antisemitism or pure idiocy in New Weekly?
by Jeremy Goldkorn (last update: June 15, 05 05:35 PM)
New Weekly, produced in Guangzhou by a joint venture between the Guangdong provincial government and the 999 Enterprise Group, was one of China's first glossy magazines, first published in 1996. It has always attempted to mix serious current affairs issues with lifestyle fluff, with each issue dedicated to one theme. The June 1 issue's theme is 'The Death of Childhood: the problems of childhood in an era of electronic media'. One of the articles is called 'Childhood Companies' (p. 42) , which looks at various ways in which money is made from kids, starrting with the example of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, whose name is misspelled as J.K. Rolling.
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To: Dr. Marten
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Antisemitism or pure idiocy in New Weekly? (China)"
Maybe one goes with the other.
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06/15/2005 6:51:00 PM PDT
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familyop
("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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