Ask Not for Whom the Bells Toll — The Bells Toll for Li
Newspapers in China report families won’t cooperate with them in their effort to run obituaries in their pages. The Beijing News had hoped to expand its once-a-week obit page featuring “interesting people” to attract more readers, but hasn’t found enough material to do it, even though the page is open to anyone who died anywhere in China. The English-language Beijing Today reports it too is having trouble, and it may drop the death notices altogether. “The obituary page, a popular page in western newspapers, is all but dead in the Chinese newspaper,” a spokesman said. (Kyodo) ...So, is that an obituary for Chinese obituaries?
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