Chinese ‘FHM’ (男人装) Magazine Controversial But Popular

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FHM, originally published as For Him Magazine, is an international monthly men’s lifestyle magazine. The magazine is printed on high quality glossy paper and the photography is of high technical quality.

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The Chinese edition of FHM has been published since May 2004 by Trends Magazines in Beijing. The magazine is named 男人装 [nan2 ren2 zhuang1] in mainland China, and 男人帮 [nan2 ren2 bang1] in Taiwan. Despite constant controversy, Nan Ren Zhuang remains very popular with certain type of readers.

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Some translated Chinese netizen comments from a Beijing Youth Daily news article about Nan Ren Zhuan reprinted on NetEase:

网易贵州遵义网友:

If China were to become [sexually] open/liberal, the porn/sex industry would surpass Japan within one year.

dgldgl198704:

Playboy!

网易浙江杭州网友:

There was a well-known website’s deputy director. When he was asked about his future career plans, he half-jokingly said: “I just want to be a photographer for Nan Ren Zhuang. If it cannot be realized, being an intern of Nan Ren Zhuang works for me as well.”

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网易江苏无锡网友:

If you want to see sexy girls’ bodies, you should not look on paper media. There are tons of them on eMule.

网易北京网友:

The director of our website booked one year’s Nan Ren Zhuang. When we are not busy, we always steal a few looks. Of course, we only look at the beautiful girls, and don’t even look at the remaining 90% of content.

网易辽宁本溪网友:

The more you repress/suppress [your desires/impulses], the stronger they become. Sad.

Liu-Jianan

网易哈尔滨工程大学网友:

This magazine is also very hot in my university. If our dorm room only buys one magazine, each roommate only pays 5 kuai.

网易浙江金华网友:

Males these days are so stressed. With the CPI so high, housing prices rising every day, and stock prices falling every day, there are very few things that are happy and yet they are not allowed to have a magazine, to enjoy some simple joys?

网易北京网友:

The models of Nan Ren Zhuang are really zan [赞,means very good]. Their faces may not necessarily be good, but their bodies are chao zan [超赞,means super beautiful and hot]. Now matter how they are PS, these kind of bodies put all women to shame, and make all guys excited. After the garbage tomboy trend of Super Girls [a very popular talent show among Chinese females, which is similar to American Idol], the appearance of Nan Ren Zhuang is undoubtedly a shot a life-saving shot of cardiac stimulant for all male comrade’s sense of aesthetic beauty!!!

Qi-Wei

网易湖北武汉网友:

I always want to buy this magazine, but they are always sold out…Depressed…

网易浙江金华网友:

很黄很暴力 [A very famous catchphrase from Edison Chen's sex photo scandal in 2008.]

网易吉林通化网友:

Embarrassingly, I am a girl, but seeing the photos of this magazine makes me excited.

Zeng-Li

网易江西南昌网友:

Boring. These pictures, when compared to Great Teacher Edison Chen’s work, simply cannot be looked at. Ever since I saw Teacher Chen’s work, I felt this world was too uninteresting. If something does not surpass Teacher Chen’s work, I’m not even willing to open my eyes anymore.

网易山东菏泽网友:

Reminder, those who are working in the sex industry always say China is conservative. This is all because they are motivated by money!

网易福建泉州网友:

Actually it’s no big deal. Just treat it as art.

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84 Responses to “Chinese ‘FHM’ (男人装) Magazine Controversial But Popular”

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    anime ftw
    says:

    Nippon easily claims the first post

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    by
    says:

    I had picked up that “2006″ pic which has that first photo at the top of this article. Good pics, really. Not porn, but certainly very suggestive, yet still artsy.

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      B. Prichard
      says:

      Artsy!? This makes me question if you have any access to art of any kind. It’s just cheesy softcore, lad magazine bullshit. Terrible and misogynist in the West, terrible and misogynist in the East.

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    Xav
    says:

    250@ And you claim the smallest brain…

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    capt. LING DAN WANG BA
    says:

    I think these photos are way hotter than the edison chen photos. This is why china should start doing porn, so to have some real porn instead of that edison chen celebrity amateur stuff (unless you are into them.)

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    Josh
    says:

    I used to look at this magazine when I’d go to my friend’s barbershop but never noticed that it was published by FHM. Pretty girls and great photos, all the way.

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    akbar lo
    says:

    maybe i have been brainwashed by the west,
    its just weird seeing asian people on any magazine.

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    Yan Xishan
    says:

    And to think, just a few years back all we had was “Underwear Industry Monthly”

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    Canton Pop
    says:

    Is the girl in the second photo holding calipers?

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    Canton Pop
    says:

    … maybe just knives

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    krdr
    says:

    I remember that first numbers of FHM was given away in Carrefour. Nothing special compared to German, Swiss or UK.

    The “tatoo” photo is great!

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    Tortue
    says:

    I’m a fan of the TW version (which is also distributed in Singapore and Hong Kong)

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    GuoBao
    says:

    Why is there so much fuzz about H1N1 when the real issue here is yellow fever?

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    Master C
    says:

    Any with the ladies on all fours and on a leash? Play is just fine but don’t let it become worship . . .

    Men of the China, Chinese Men worldwide and Men of the World, read the article on the link and be cautioned on what is happening :

    http://www.henrymakow.com/feminism_is_key_to_making_of_a.html

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    sam
    says:

    so many craps comments about a magazines

  15. What’s the big deal? China is getting more and more liberal anyway……There is FHM in Singapore as well and the magazine is quite popular among men.

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    GermanChinese
    says:

    This isn’t good. China needs to be (become) a strong confucian & nationalistic country without such unmoral things. But luckly, China will never be so perverted like 小日本, because Rape, Incest, Zoophilia, Necrophilia and other weird stuff are a unique part of Japanese culture. All other things, which are good like the traditional culture, art, architecture, clothing, writing, games (“Go”) and many, many more are plagiarized/stolen from China.
    In Korea and Vietnam (to some dagree) too.

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      bleah
      says:

      Koreans will approve of your post, expect for the point, that in fact all these traditional things originate from Korea.

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        GermanChinese
        says:

        Maybe, but this doesn’t really matter. The Japs, Koreans and Vietnamese, everybody will have his proper place in Chinas sinocentric World Order in the distant future. And for Japan, Korea and Vietnam it’s pretty clear = A Chinese vassal state, like most of their history.

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      kimjongIV
      says:

      is it your first comment on china smack or you´r just one of those brainwhased old fashioned Japan-haters while working in a japanese company, buying japanese products and ignoring the fact that japan is china best business partner….patetic

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        GermanChinese
        says:

        I live right now in Germany. I would never work in a Japanese company.
        And yes, Japan is a importend business partner…for now.
        And if they accept Chinas rise, then rule and their place in it, there shouldn’t be many serious problems.

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        Xav
        says:

        Thank mate, was waiting for someone to say that…Too much Japanese, Korean,etc,…, hating here.

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          GermanChinese
          says:

          What hate?
          It’s just the truth and facts.
          Look at Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese history/culture and see how it was made/created/civilized by Imperial China.

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      Teacher in China
      says:

      Rape and incest are a unique part of Japanese culture? That’s funny because I swear I used to hear about these things happening in Canada when I used to live there. Hm, guess it must have been Japanese people visiting the country that were doing it. Damn. Thanks for opening my eyes on this GermanChinese.

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      Chen
      says:

      what? you are saying there is no rape in china, no perverted things in china? you might wanna do your homework, search in chinasmack before you defend china blindly

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        GermanChinese
        says:

        Hm? I didn’t said that.

        But if you compare Chinas size and population with (really little) Nippon, such things mean nearly nothing in China.

        Its a fact that the Japanese are the most perverted people on this earth. Or just ask around. Most people will say: Japan.

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          Xav
          says:

          Ok we get your point…You’re just a pathetic hater. By the way, how comes that you know so much about the Japanese sex culture??? You’re not a dirty hentai lover, now are you?

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            GermanChinese
            says:

            Please, i don’t need to know “Japanese sex culture” to know that Japanese just are like that.
            It’s a common truth. Like it or not.

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          DUKE FLEED
          says:

          …and Chinese are the most amoral ones…China has already the highest per capita pronstitution rate in the world by the way. The fact that sex industry doesn’t follow the same path is because is not allowed by ur governors; when/if it will be you will see a level of perversion that japanese society never achieved. As for the china domination of the world, forget it. Even, and I doubt for genetic reasons related to creativity, if china will rise, the world will be already fucked up by that time

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            Yin
            says:

            I agree. The only reason Japanese are creative is because of their Aryan genes, which they got from a lost white colony which ruled the Japanese but later degenerated because they mixed with the natives.

            WHITES ARE THE MOST GENIUS RACE! WHITES CREATED EVERYTHING! WHITE POWER!!!

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          Somethin Somethin
          says:

          Shiza Films…thats all I have to say to a dude from Germany calling out the Japanese on their porn.

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      dim mak
      says:

      It’s a troll, do not feed.

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      g khan
      says:

      i agree with germanchinese. china should return to its proper place, a vassal state of MONGOLIA! and germanchinese can be my personal bootlicker while i take his sister and all females in his family below 25 as my concubines. how’s that for knowing your proper place?

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        GermanChinese
        says:

        Hehe.
        Why so envious? In the future Outer Mongolia will be a part of China like Inner Mongolia now. The Mongolian Gouverment is selling your country bit by bit to China like Ma Ying-jeou in the “ROC”.
        Just ask the people in Inner Mongolia how happy they are to by a part of the big Chinese family. But don’t worry, you and the other people in Outer Mongolia need just a little more Patience, like the Chinese in Taiwan. It’s just a matter of time.

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          Alan
          says:

          Just ask the people in Inner Mongolia how happy they are to by a part of the big Chinese family.

          GC, have you personally asked any of them how happy they are to be a big part of your family?

          while you are at it, maybe you can ask them how they (along with africans and uyghurs) felt about being banned from Bars in BJ around olympics time. Grow out of your box, think about it…

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            GermanChinese
            says:

            Of course they are happy. Mongolians, Tibetans, Uighurs…like every national minority in China. They love their Chinese motherland. Besides some 漢奸, members of the national minoritys think they are first Chinese, than Tibetan, Mongolian and so on.
            Don’t let you fool by evil Western Anti-China propaganda or some 漢奸 in China or elsewhere.

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            Yin
            says:

            Just ask the native Indians how happy they are to have their entire continent stolen from them by white colonists.

            Really, who has ever given a damn about what the people wanted? Mongols sure as fuck didn’t. Usually I go long with the “China bad” bandwagon, but there’s a limit to even my tolerance of bullshit hypocrisy.

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    Pauline
    says:

    The comment about only paying 5 kuai per roommate? Priceless! I can only think of a bunch of socially awkward, skinny Chinese college boys passing the magazine around and each having ‘private time’ with it. Sticky hands leaving marks on each of the choice pages. Totally HI-LARIOUS if you ignore the grossness of it.

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    Junjie
    says:

    Can anyone tell me how to order the Chinese FHM in Germany? I’m bored by the German version. No Chinese girls inside there :(

    Any help highly appreciated!
    appletree2k at gmail

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    zammo hung
    says:

    Great photography.

    *right click*

    Some of them girls are fair giving me the horn.

    *save as*

    Bet i could make them scream like an Aztec sacrifice if i had my way ;)

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    Hayley
    says:

    Well let’s hope that never happens Zammo:)

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    DUKE FLEED
    says:

    ..by the way…where’s the first photo man’s dick gone? I hope is a photoshop problem and not his actual size

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      The Lizard King
      says:

      seriously?
      i mean, i know she’s photoshopped to high heavens,
      but thats one hot woman to miss and stare at the guys dick, man…

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        DUKE FLEED
        says:

        u have a solid point here…but mine is just a curiosity…how come that a country like china that is trying so desperately to endorse its own image at any possible level, still commits these mistakes? we saw fake little singers at the olympics, fake historical sites, etc.. such a picture should transmit abundance and passion…but it is just grown up chick molesting a dumbass child

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    fireworks
    says:

    nice photography and brushing and photoshopping…

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    The Lizard King
    says:

    and btw, mmmmmmmmmmmmm those girls aaaaaall look delicious!
    shut up!
    i know they’re PS-ed!
    who cares!
    they are real to me right n..nnn…nnn…noooooooooooooooooow! :D

  24. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN THE WORLD!

    I MUST GIVE CHINA THEIR PROPS!…

    AND ALSO GAVE ONE OF YOUR OWN, MY LAST NAME.

  25. Vote -1 Vote +1 +1
    Alan
    says:

    Hmmmm, where to pick up a copy? The kiosks here haven’t been selling it?

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    Johnny Knoxville
    says:

    FHM is a lousy and overrated magazine…they always show the same overrated and overexposed Chinese stars such as Zhang Zhiyi, Zhou Xun, Fan Bingbing, etc. As if China has nothing else to offer jeez

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    NickNicket
    says:

    Ha, i know girl from picture №1 and №4. Before i have chinese girlfriend in Biejing(by the way she was awesome) and at that time she was her manadger.
    Cover girl name is Aduo, she is singer(she have some good songs, for exe. Na me na me ai 那么那么爱)
    (In real life shi is also beautifu, or at list I thinck so…)

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