Guo Meiling, a Chinese influencer better known as Guo Meimei, was among 75 people arrested by Shanghai police for selling diet food that contains banned substances, news portal The Paper reported on Monday (April 12). The Pudong district police in Shanghai issued a notice in March on Guo’s detention and later confirmed the arrest. There have been 74 other people.
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China’s 3,500-Post Edit War Over Feminism
Zhihu’s “feminism” page has been edited thousands of times since 2011. What’s all the fuss about?
On Jan. 2, 2011, Li Ruyi, a user of the popular question-and-answer platform Zhihu, created a new topic page on the site. There was nothing particularly extraordinary about this. Topic pages on Zhihu function like a cross between tags collecting all Zhihu posts related to a given topic in one place and a Wikipedia entry where curious netizens can read an open-source introduction to a subject or issue compiled by their fellow users. For the first three years of its existence, Li’s topic page attracted almost no interest or edits, but since 2014 it has experienced several bursts of user activity, amounting to thousands of modifications in the space of just a few years.
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Rescuers unload relief supplies in Shuangshi township, Lushan County of Ya’an, Sichuan province, April 24, 2013. Tens of thousands of homeless survivors of China’s most recent devastating quake are living in makeshift tents or on the streets, facing shortages of food and supplies as well as an uncertain future.
Earth Moves, China Rallies
May 4, 2013
By Caixin staff reporters Xie Haitao, He Xin, and Chen Baocheng, with Zhang Tao in Ya’an; Wang Xiaoqing, Cui Zheng, Wang Jing, and Liu Hongqiao in Beijing; and Yu Dawei in Shanghai
Rapeseed was ripening in the lush fields ringing the village of Renjia when a local farmer, forced from his home, stepped into the sea of green stalks and pitched a tent.
Black PR Duo Arrested Amid Online Rumor Crackdown
Posted by Josh Rudolph | Aug 22, 2013
Yesterday, news surfaced on the arrest of two men for “deliberately fabricating rumors” online and “illegally obtaining benefits.” Qin Zhihui and Yang Xiuyu, the two men currently in detention, were two major players in China’s “black PR” industry: a thriving trade of online reputation management often utilized by businesses, celebrities, and officials to bolster their images or harm those of their competitors. A post at Danwei looks at Chinese-language coverage of the recently arrested duo to
Qin and Yang have since March 2010 headed a lucrative “black PR” business called Beijing Erma Interactive Marketing and Planning Company 北京尔玛互动营销策划有限公司 (no website for which could be found), one of the over 15,000 Chinese “water army” (