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Chinese mourning rituals and the great Wenchuan quake

Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:40 AM by will
During the official mourning period declared a week after last month's Wenchuan earthquake, I put up a post remarking on the government message that replaced the foreign entertainment channels on my building satellite TV system. This got me zapped by Read More...
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Good PR for American tech firms providing quake help

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:08 AM by will
An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today on some things that American technology companies are doing in addition to donations to help out with quake relief. Google, Microsoft and IBM are all using their technology in various ways to help Read More...
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The quake's effect on perceptions of China

Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 7:09 AM by will
A good Wall Street Journal article on how the vigorous response to the quake has helped China to improve its image: Natural disasters sometimes leave damaged governments among the rubble in their wake. But more than a week after a giant earthquake shook Read More...
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Shaming companies into donating

Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:52 AM by will
Good post from Stan Abrams at China Hearsay on companies (and individuals) being shamed into making contributions to earthquake relief: Humiliating individuals and enterprises for not contributing enough to earthquake relief is taking all this a bit too Read More...
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5/12, 9/11 and three minutes on Monday afternoon

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:19 AM by will
On Monday, May 12th, Imagethief was on the 27th floor of the Kerry Center for a meeting at 2:28PM. We all spent a couple of spooky minutes at the window watching Kerry and Fortune Plaza sway alarmingly, not knowing that it was just the faintest echo of Read More...
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The quake changes the game for the Olympics

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:28 AM by will
Have a read of this article in the Wall Street Journal that looks at the reaction of the activists that have been protesting the Beijing Olympics to China's devastating earthquake: Before the earthquake, China's image abroad had taken a beating. The first Read More...
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China's mourning period: What's on TV tonight?

Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 10:20 AM by will
Here is the screen being broadcast over every non-news foreign channel on my cable system in Beijing (click image for a larger version): In this case, it's from what is normally HBO, but it's the same for ESPN, National Geographic, MTV, and the French Read More...
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Does your quake donation stack up?

Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 1:41 AM by will
Sina has collected an illustrated master list of all the corporate donations to earthquake relief, ranked by size, and linked to company announcements. This makes it easy to see who's being generous and who's being stingy or, worse, hasn't donated at Read More...
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The post-quake entertainment blackout

Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 8:52 PM by will
Reports from the net and Twitter this morning that as part of the three days of official earthquake mourning , scheduled to begin this afternoon at 2:28PM, many and perhaps most entertainment venues, websites and broadcasting are to shut down. For more Read More...
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