Jing’an Temple Is All Coked Out - 2008 Jan 06
(Tags: advertising, observations, Olympics)
Karen Mok Makes Puppies Sad - 2007 Dec 26
(Tags: advertising, animals, celebrities)
Missing Person on the Subway - 2007 Jul 24
(Tags: advertising, observations)
More Bondage for English First - 2007 Jul 21
(Tags: advertising, sex)
Trojan Condoms Ads on Shanghai’s Subways - 2007 Jun 30
Subtle Messages from Xintiandi - 2007 Apr 16
(Tags: advertising, Shanghai)
Pizza Hut Easter - 2007 Apr 09
(Tags: advertising, easter, Shanghai)
Big Pair, Little Pair - 2007 Apr 04
(Tags: advertising)
Bad Subway Ad - 2007 Mar 22
(Tags: advertising)
ICBC’s Creative Character Writing - 2007 Jan 21
(Tags: advertising, Chinese characters)
Toys “Я” Us in Chinese - 2007 Jan 03
(Tags: advertising, translation)
Medicine Ingredients = Pun Ingredients - 2006 Nov 10
(Tags: advertising, John B, language)
A New Advertising Low? - 2006 Nov 08
(Tags: advertising, other blogs, taxis)
China, More Tissues (please) - 2006 Oct 20
(Tags: advertising, Japan, Shanghai)
Fortune Cookies for Shanghai - 2006 Oct 12
(Tags: advertising, observations, Shanghai)
Critical Discourse Analysis in China - 2006 Sep 21
(Tags: advertising, grad school, linguistics)
One Finger Zen IT - 2006 Sep 02
(Tags: advertising, Chinese characters, Japanese)
Shanghai Carrefour Showcase - 2006 Jun 17
(Tags: advertising, food, marketing, Micah, Shanghai)
Zhang Ziyi in TV Commericals - 2006 May 07
(Tags: advertising, celebrities, elsewhere, TV, YouTube)
Weight Loss Pun #2 - 2006 Mar 05
(Tags: advertising, language)
No Wendy’s in China - 2006 Jan 17
(Tags: advertising, food, health, John B)
More Christmas Than You - 2005 Dec 24
(Tags: advertising, Ayi, Christmas, girlfriend)
The Baidu Super-Wide Ad - 2005 Oct 28
(Tags: advertising, Baidu, Google, tech)
Weight Loss Pun - 2005 Sep 22
(Tags: advertising, language)
The Curse of Oral-B - 2005 Aug 23
(Tags: advertising, celebrities)
Truly Asia - 2005 Jun 27
(Tags: advertising, culture, elsewhere, funny, travel)
The Mummy in Shanghai - 2005 Jun 22
(Tags: advertising, culture, girls, movies, Shanghai)
Video Coke Machines - 2005 Jun 20
(Tags: advertising, Shanghai, tech)
Laowai Will Like You Too! - 2005 May 23
Suspicious Skype Issues - 2005 May 12
(Tags: advertising, internet, Shanghai, tech, Wang Lihong)
eBay and Wordplay - 2005 May 11
(Tags: advertising, current events, language, vocabulary)
New Site Ads - 2004 Nov 13
(Tags: advertising, CBL, elsewhere)
Dashan in Shanghai - 2004 Jun 14
(Tags: advertising, celebrities, personal, Shanghai, 大山)
Cheerios and Wang Lihong - 2004 Mar 25
(Tags: advertising, celebrities, classic, food, Wang Lihong)
Zi Head - 2002 Dec 01
(Tags: advertising, funny, other blogs)
John has lived in China for 8.3 years. He is a linguist focused on SLA and Asia.