In 2004, the Chinese government banned a Nike ad that depicted LeBron James defeating a martial-arts teacher, flying spirits and what other creature?
"Immortals and Dragon styles. Example of styles attributed to historical figures include Xing yi and its relationship to Yue Fei and T'ai chi which trace its origins to a Taoist Zhang Sanfeng. Family affiliations are also an important means of identifying a Chinese martial arts system. Heavily influenced by the Confucian tradition, many styles are named in honor of the founder of the system. The five family (Choi, Hung, Lau, Lei, Mok) of Southern Chinese martial arts are representative of family styles. Family styles can also denote branches of a system. For example, the families of Chen, Yang, Wu and"
"and the government. Several video games have been banned in China for these reasons. In 2004, the video game Hearts of Iron was banned as the Ministry of Culture deemed the games portrayal of World War II to be distorted. In 2013, the Chinese Ministry banned the video game Battlefield 4 as they claimed it misrepresented China and was an attempt to ""smears China's image"". The German ""Strafgesetzbuch"" (Criminal Code) in § 86a outlaws the use of symbols of unconstitutional organisations, § 130 Volksverhetzung (agitation of the people), and § 131 instructions for crimes. In the official lists, these three"
"2004, Zhiqiang sued Nike, Inc. for unauthorized use of his stickfigure designs in an advertisement; Nike representatives denied the accusations, claiming that the stickman figure lacks originality, and is public domain. The company failed to appeal and was ultimately ordered to pay $36,000 to Zhu. Zhu Zhiqiang Zhu Zhiqiang (; born June 8, 1976) is a Chinese graphic designer, animator, writer, producer, and voice actor best known for his ""Xiao Xiao"" series of martial art stick figure videos. Zhu lives in Beijing, China, where he is an Internet phenomenon. He makes money from his animations using advertisements for major companies."
"to ban the film ""Memoirs of a Geisha"" on February 1, 2006. The fact that Chinese actresses played Japanese geisha, often wrongly perceived as prostitutes in China, had caused considerable controversy among some elements of the Chinese population. There have been several reports that stores, restaurants, public institutions and hospitals in China refuse to serve Japanese customers because Japan has not apologized for the invasion of China. During the Asian Cup 2004, an association football championship held in China, Chinese fans booed the Japanese team during the playing of the Japanese national anthem at matches against several countries, including China."
"Xiao Xiao cartoons, especially Xiao Xiao #3. In June 2004, Zhu filed a lawsuit against Nike for plagiarizing his cartoon stickmen in their commercials. Nike representatives denied the accusations, claiming that the stickman figure lacks originality, and is public domain. Zhu eventually won the lawsuit, claiming his copyright on his style and not the stickman, and Nike was ordered to pay $36,000 to the cartoonist. Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao () is an Internet Flash cartoon series by Chinese animator Zhu Zhiqiang, featuring stick figure men performing choreographed fight scenes. Some of the cartoons are interactive and game-like. All cartoons are"
"offers educational, healthcare, and sports programs to young people"". Many people like and admire Kobe Bryant but most NBA players do not ""receive the same wild reception"" as he does when he goes to China. Bryant has been on billboards, reality shows, commercials, and websites both in the United States and China. ""Three factors driving Bryant's popularity in China are his on-court talent, his philanthropic actions, and his appreciation of the country's culture"". Apart from Yao Ming, Bryant is said to have the largest fan base in China and his no.24 jersey outsells the national hero Ming. Kobe Bryant China"
"magical horns give him the power to see in the future, envisioning plays and moves before they actually happen. He wears a red and blue uniform with the tournament's logo and high tops by China's top player Yao Ming and the winning mascot was designed by Yan Xu. The mascot was chosen over other finalists Speed Tiger who was inspired by a Siberian tiger and QiuQiu (a.k.a. Little Lightning) who was inspired by a Chinese lion. The official mascot made his first public appearance on 28 June 2018 in Shenzhen. There are concerns from national federations that they will not"
"June 2013, Sina Weibo, China's most popular microblog, blocked the terms ""Today"", ""Tonight"", ""June 4"", and ""Big Yellow Duck"", because Chinese activists were photoshopping the ""Rubber Duck"" sculpture into the Tank Man photo of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. If the term ""Big Yellow Duck"" was searched, a message would say that according to relevant laws, statutes, and policies, the results of the search could not be shown. The ""Rubber Duck"" has made appearances in the following locations: Rubber Duck (sculpture) Rubber Duck refers to any of several giant floating sculptures designed by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, which have"
"government have also been subject to censure. Guns N' Roses' album ""Chinese Democracy"" was banned in the country, as its title track criticizes the Chinese government and contains references to the Falun Gong. The song ""Legacy"" on Pet Shop Boys' 2009 album ""Yes"" was changed to an instrumental for its Chinese release, as it contains the lyric ""governments fall"". In July 2017, it was reported that Justin Bieber had been banned from performing in the country, citing ""a series of bad behaviours, both in his social life and during a previous performance in China, which caused discontent among the public."""
"of the charismatic megafauna, and are used as the face of conservation campaigns worldwide. In a 2004 online poll conducted by cable television channel Animal Planet, involving more than 50,000 viewers from 73 countries, the tiger was voted the world's favourite animal with 21% of the vote, narrowly beating the dog. In Chinese myth and culture, the tiger is one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. In Chinese art, the tiger is depicted as an earth symbol and equal rival of the Chinese dragon – the two representing matter and spirit respectively. The Southern Chinese martial art Hung"
"(). On the opposite side, there are Four Holy Creatures in Chinese mythology which are called Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger and Black Tortoise. The four fiends are also sometimes juxtaposed with the which are Qilin (), Dragon (), Turtle () and Fenghuang (). Scholars have long been perplexed over the meaning (if any) of this theriomorphic design, and there is still no commonly held single answer. The hypotheses range from Robert Bagley's belief that the design is a result of the casting process, and rather than having an iconographic meaning was the artistic expression of the artists who"
"Initially, Yi declined to sign with Milwaukee for several months before agreeing to a contract with them on 29 August 2007. He later played for three other NBA teams until returning to the Guangdong Southern Tigers in 2012. Yi also plays for the Chinese national team, having represented his country at the Olympics in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016, as well as the 2006 and 2010 FIBA World Championships. As a child, Yi's parents did not allow him to join a sports school, which is designed for children predicted to be future professional athletes. However, a sports school's basketball coach"
"NBA champion Shaquille O'Neal and Allen Iverson. Continuing with the honours, on February 3, 2017, Yao's Number 11 jersey was retired by the Houston Rockets. Yao first played for China in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and he was dubbed, together with teammates Wang Zhizhi and Mengke Bateer, ""The Walking Great Wall"". During the 2004 Athens Olympics, Yao carried the Chinese flag during the opening ceremony, which he said was a ""long dream come true"". He then vowed to abstain from shaving his beard for half a year unless the Chinese national team made it into the quarter-finals of the 2004"
"together, the emblem of the games displayed the Olympic Spirit in a new guise. It also reflected the dynamic power of the Five Elements - Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth. The Mascot of 4th East Asian Games was a squirrel called ""Pak Pak (柏柏)"". ""Pak Pak"" comes from Macau's Guia Hill where there are lots of Fir trees, and is also the site of the oldest lighthouse on the Chinese coast - the Guia Lighthouse. Macau has a National Olympic Committee, the Macau Olympic Committee, it is not a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), so cannot compete"
"""Sky, Earth, and Human Beings"" (), was unveiled in July 2004, a multicolored Chinese character ""之"" () stylized as an athletic figure in motion. Its red, blue and green colors represent sun, sky and earth. The slogan was the same as the 2008 Summer Olympics, ""One World, One Dream"". The mascot was a cartoon cow named Fu Niu Lele (), roughly meaning ""Lucky Ox 'Happy'"". The theme song was ""Flying with the Dream"" . It was performed by Chinese-Tibetan singer Han Hong and Hong Kong singer and actor Andy Lau. The torch relay of the 2008 Summer Paralympics started from"
"Liaoning Flying Leopards The Liaoning Flying Leopards () (also known as the Liaoning Scale Industry Flying Leopards or simply Liaoning Scale Industry) are a Chinese professional basketball team based in Mingshan District, Benxi, Liaoning, which plays in the Northern Division of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). Some home games are also held in nearby Benxi. The Liaoning Scale Industry Group is the club's corporate sponsor while its mascot is a flying leopard. In 2011, Scale Industry took over sponsorship from the Liaoning Panpan Group Co., Ltd. (辽宁盼盼集团有限公司). During the 2004–05 CBA season, Liaoning finished in first place in the North"
"a New York City firm with offices in Beijing. Reports on NBA jersey sales over the last three years (2006–2009) reveal that Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers is the most sold jersey in China; however, Yao Ming fell from 6th to 10th and then back to 6th while his Houston Rockets teammate Tracy McGrady remained ranked third for two straight seasons then fell to fourth in 2009. The MMORPG Second Life, an Internet-based virtual game world, offers its members the option of playing or shopping at a digital replica of the NBA Store. The 3-D virtual replica was"
"Olympics. He serves as Global Ambassador and member of the International Board of Directors. On July 16, 2009, Yao bought his former club team, the Shanghai Sharks, which were on the verge of not being able to play the next season of the Chinese Basketball Association because of financial troubles. In August 2012, Yao started filming a documentary about the northern white rhinoceros. He is also an ambassador for elephant conservation. Yao has filmed a number of public service announcements for elephant and rhino conservation for the ""Say No"" Campaign with partners African Wildlife Foundation and WildAid. He established The"
"highlight 31 categories of content prohibited online, including violence, pornography and content which may ""incite ethnic discrimination or undermine social stability"". Many Chinese internet users believe the instruction follows the official embarrassment over the ""Grass Mud Horse"" and the ""River Crab"". Industry observers believe that the move was designed to stop the spread of parodies or other comments on politically sensitive issues in the runup to the anniversary of the 4 June Tiananmen Square protests. In the second quarter of 2014, China is by far the main country of origin of cyber attacks, with 43% of the worldwide total. The"
"(such as the """"Baidu 10 Legendary Weapons"""" and """"Baidu 10 Secret Delicacies""""). Meme references can be found throughout Chinese websites. The mythical creatures have names which are innocuous in written Chinese, but sound similar to and recognizable as profanities when spoken. References to the creatures, particularly the Grass Mud Horse, are widely used as symbolic defiance of the widespread Internet censorship in China; censorship itself is symbolized by the river crab, a near-homophone of ""harmony"" (a euphemism for censorship in reference to the Harmonious Society). Cao Ni Ma (, ""Cǎo Ní Mǎ""), literally ""Grass Mud Horse"", was supposedly a species"
"the four great spirit animals of Chinese astrology: the Azure Dragon, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Black Tortoise. In the memorial pavilion are arranged several dedicatory inscriptions from modern Chinese leaders Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, and Deng Xiaoping. In front of the tomb is a pavilion for offerings, in the middle of which stands a stone stele with the three characters ""Yellow Emperor Mausoleum"". The stele was erected by Chiang Kai-shek during the Second Sino-Japanese War but was chiseled blank in 1956 before being restored in 1963 by Guo Moruo. Xuanyuan Temple (轩辕庙 ""Xuānyuánmiào""), named"
"Beikong Fly Dragons The Beijing Beikong Fly Dragons (), also known as Beijing Enterprises Water Group Fly Dragons or Beijing BG Fly Dragons, are a Chinese professional men's basketball team which is based in Beijing and plays in the Northern Division of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). Beijing BG (known in Chinese as Beijing Beikong) is the club's corporate sponsor while its mascot is a fly dragon. The franchise was founded in 2009 in Guangzhou and spent its first five seasons of existence competing at the lower levels of China's hardwood hierarchy. The team relocated to Chongqing in 2012. The"
"Yoga for Hope campaign. ""Amazing"" is an upcoming fiction film from Shanghai Studios, in association with NBA China, expected to reach over 100 million Chinese youth and young adults. On the surface, Amazing is an inspiring contemporary drama about a programmer who has been contracted to design China’s most popular thought-controlled virtual reality basketball game. Amazing supports a series of free NBA Fit clinics throughout China teaching health and fitness to kids and their families. EarthTones Director, Frank Fitzpatrick's theme song for the film, ""The Kiss"" was performed live by Chinese lead soprano Ying Huang at the opening ceremony of"
"Lele (mascot) Lele, also known as Nanjing Lele, is the official mascot of the Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. Lele is based on Yuhua stones, which come in the colors of red, pink, yellow, white and green. It is short and robust with a bulging eye, wearing a smile mouth always. After a competition, the stone was chosen to represent the games. The word ‘lele’ represents the sound of stones colliding together and is pronounced like the Chinese word meaning happiness or joy. The mascot was revealed to the public by Chinese Olympic champions Sun Yang , Huang Xu, and"
"Ju-min Park of Reuters mentioned that a few of South Korea's normally staid presidential candidates are imitating Psy's moves in an appeal to voters. In Chile, the dance was also used by students during massive protests across the country and the Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, who was detained by Chinese authorities in 2011 for his political activism, danced ""Gangnam Style"" with a pair of handcuffs as a symbol of his arrest and uploaded a video titled ""Grass Mud Horse Style"" onto YouTube and other Chinese websites. According to the Associated Press, government authorities had removed the video from most websites"
"and LeBron James later that year. In 2010, Monster began developing a series of products for the Chinese market that were co-branded with basketball player Yao Ming. According to analyst firm NPD Group, the Beats brand that Monster distributed exclusively grew to own 53 percent of a $1 billion headphones market. A 51 percent interest in Beats was sold to HTC in August 2011. At the end of the five-year agreement between Monster and Dr. Dre in 2012, Dre decided not to renew. According to Bloomberg, both parties said the separation was ""amicable"" but they had disagreements on who deserves"
"Peter Michael, Quimbé and Rui Paulo. In 2006, ""The Simpsons"", along with other shows such as ""Pokémon"", SpongeBob SquarePants and Mickey Mouse cartoons, were banned from being aired during primetime (5:00 to 8:00 PM) in China. This was done so that Chinese cartoons, which were having a hard time competing with foreign cartoons, would gain more viewers. The government had previously tried several things, such as ordering that networks cut down on the number of foreign animated series being aired in 2000 and in 2004, passed a rule that would ensure that 60 percent of cartoon content came from Chinese"
"2016. Current Chinese players Current International players Former Chinese players Former International players Sichuan Blue Whales The Sichuan Jinqiang Blue Whales (四川金强蓝鲸), also known as Sichuan Jinqiang or Sichuan Blue Whales, are a professional basketball team based in Wenjiang District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, which plays in the North Division of the Chinese Basketball Association. The Jinqiang Group is the club's corporate sponsor while its mascot is a blue whale. In 2016, the team won the CBA Finals in their first appearance in the championship series, defeating the Liaoning Flying Leopards 4–1 in the best of seven series. They became the"
"flying faster than the wind and eating children and human souls. The giant mythological creature, called “Inmyeonjo” in Korean, appeared onstage following the countdown in the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang. Many viewers focused on a giant puppet of a human-faced bird. It soon moved to the center of the stage, surrounded by the Four Symbols- blue dragon, white tiger, red bird, black tortoise - and dancing women dressed in costumes of the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo. The animal's long neck and dragon-like body, combined with its human face, grabbed the attention of many"
"the Summer Olympics. In 2013, German electronic music band Kraftwerk were denied entry visas over their intent to perform at a 1999 Free Tibet concert in Washington, D.C., which was cancelled due to inclement weather. Maroon 5 had concerts cancelled in the country after bandmember Jesse Carmichael posted a Twitter message for the Dalai Lama's 80th birthday, and Oasis concerts in China were cancelled after lead singer Noel Gallagher performed at a Free Tibet concert in New York City. In 2016, the Publicity Department banned Lady Gaga after she posted a video of her meeting with the Dalai Lama prior"
"than in China itself. This discrepancy is attributed to the fact that traditional Chinese customs, including lion and dragon dances, were unable to flourish during the political and social instabilities of Imperial China under rule of the Qing Dynasty, and were almost eliminated completely under the Communist regime of the People's Republic of China under Chairman Mao Zedong. However, due to the migration of Chinese all over the world (particularly Southeast Asia), these dance traditions were continued by overseas Chinese and performed in Chinatowns. Chinese New Year dragon and lion dances are intended particularly to scare off evil spirits and"
"The State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television issued a directive on 30 March 2009 to highlight 31 categories of content prohibited online, including violence, pornography, content which may ""incite ethnic discrimination or undermine social stability"". According to reports, the instruction follows the official embarrassment over the rise of the ""Grass Mud Horse"" phenomenon. Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures The Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures (), alternatively Ten Baidu Deities, was initially a humorous hoax from the interactive encyclopedia Baidu Baike which became a popular and widespread Internet meme in the China in early 2009. These hoaxes, ten in number, are regarded"
"Wu Jingyu. Lele (mascot) Lele, also known as Nanjing Lele, is the official mascot of the Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. Lele is based on Yuhua stones, which come in the colors of red, pink, yellow, white and green. It is short and robust with a bulging eye, wearing a smile mouth always. After a competition, the stone was chosen to represent the games. The word ‘lele’ represents the sound of stones colliding together and is pronounced like the Chinese word meaning happiness or joy. The mascot was revealed to the public by Chinese Olympic champions Sun Yang , Huang"