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After bashing each other with frying pans for decades, cat-and-mouse cartoon combo Tom and Jerry are fighting a new battle - against Chinese nationalism. Beijing's censors banned the pair from the airwaves in October because Chinese producers had given them voices in local dialects instead of Mandarin, the national language. The ban reflected the government's effort to unify China's disparate regions by stressing national over regional interests. Yet these days, China's profit-driven media are pulling in the opposite direction by marketing to provincial pride. A hot-selling series of new books, for instance, celebrates...
After bashing each other with frying pans for decades, cat-and-mouse cartoon combo Tom and Jerry are fighting a new battle--against Chinese nationalism. Beijing's censors banned the pair from the airwaves in October because Chinese producers had given them voices in local dialects instead of Mandarin, the national language. The ban reflected the government's effort to unify China's disparate regions by stressing national over regional interests. Yet these days, China's profit-driven media are pulling in the opposite direction by marketing to provincial pride. A hot-selling series of new books, for instance, celebrates...
...Most important, perhaps, are efforts to attract new blood. Wong in September opened a special box at Sha Tin featuring Mandarin-speaking announcers and staff to woo the millions of mainland-Chinese tourists flooding the territory. The club employs "ambassadors" at the tracks to instruct newcomers on the betting process. Next up: Wong is considering a year-round racing schedule. "If we want to stay alive, we have to invent," he says...
David Lou ’08, who was born in Beijing but moved to the U.S. at the age of two, said he is considering applying to improve his fluency in Mandarin, “to be in touch with family in China...because they speak very little English...
...Eastern and Western Europe and members of the ruling Politburo Standing Committee have made six more. China is clearly trying to exploit strains between Europe and the U.S., and has voiced its own gripes with the U.S. as well. Shortly before the election, China's most important foreign-policy mandarin, retired former Foreign Minister Qian Qichen, publicly criticized the "Bush Doctrine" for its "cocksureness and arrogance" and its quick resort to force...