Comments on: Chinese Guerilla Advertising

By: David

David — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:41:39 +0000

Thanks Tom, glad you approve!

By: Tom F

Tom F — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:13:56 +0000

I like your latest articles and the sharper focus you now have from living there, and delving deeper into the culture. Keep it up

By: florance

florance — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:24:26 +0000

i used to live in the old apartment where is advertising anywhere in the stair

By: David

David — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:43:46 +0000

Sorry about that Joy, I have fixed the unicode problem which was stopping you writing Chinese in the comments (test 测试)

By: Joy

Joy — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:08:53 +0000

I wrote Chinese in my last reply and I thought it can be read.Seems no and forgot what did I wrote.

By: David

David — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:45:49 +0000

Interesting that even a school would go to such lengths to advertise! I guess we could see this as a certainly form of “creativity” at one level. Thanks for your comment.

By: yaoyao

yaoyao — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:27:55 +0000

En,David,this is really a wonderful article which is based on close observation of China.

Do you know New Oriental School(China’s biggest English-training institute).Its CEO(Yu Min Hong) had ever advertised like this by himself when New Oriental School is just established.

By: David

David — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:04:52 +0000

You’re right, I’ve never seen anybody placing the ads but somehow they’re everywhere! They do make the streets a bit unsightly but somehow seems to be a part of Chinese city life. Thanks for your insight but please don’t get yourself killed on my behalf

By: Aku

Aku — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:12:03 +0000

Incredible! If they can advertise so openly, it means that the black market is HUGE and that its claws most likely run rather deep in the local authorities as well…

By: Shuo

Shuo — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:19:37 +0000

First of all,the title is genius–you probably haven’t seen those sneaky people who pasted those ads.I found them funny but also pathetic.When I was young,say 10 years ago,those ads were handed out by some old women(as those “fa piao” women).People like me never seriously read those ads but I guess there must a huge (black)market out there.

The Shenzhen government tried to figure out different ways to avoid those street ads but failed.They tried to develop some kind of detergent and,a few years ago,encouraged by the official,people collected the ads and sold them to recycle bin for 6~10 RMB/half a kilogramme(I can’t quite remember tho).

Maybe I should call those phone number and find out how they work as a tight group,it should be fun.^^