Here's an article from what seems to be a China expats' blog, Sinocidal.com, that pokes fun at the 'modern China' type news articles that seem to be quite common these days.
Kind of a 'How To...' guide for lazy journalists:
Nobody really understands China. Especially you, because you hadn’t even heard of the country until last week when you failed to be chosen as a New York correspondent.
So get around the whole problem of writing difficult conclusions by just presenting a series of contrasting images. Here are some easy ones to start you off:
- A statue of Mao with an advert for Coca-Cola in the background.
- An elderly Chinese man, with a long wispy beard, sat on a bench next to a fibreglass model of Ronald McDonald.
- A sign saying “Promote Environmental Awareness” stuck in a field full of nuclear waste and dead babies.
- A girl with a mobile phone walking past a tramp.
- A description of a fashionable Shanghai socialite who hangs out at Starbucks and likes KFC, quickly followed in the next paragraph by a description of a former prostitute who works 5 million hours a day in a condom factory for just two grains of rice a year.
Read the full article here.
No comments:
Post a Comment