This week’s Sinica is a great show. We covered two issues, one current and one chronic. The current issue is the Guo Degang affair, in which the student of a famous Beijing crosstalk performer struck a BTV journalist in murky circumstances. While BTV hardly looks blameless, the result has been that Guo has found himself [...]
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The latest Sinica podcast is now live. In this edition, Kaiser Kuo, Danwei editor Jeremy Goldkorn and I discuss the state of English language China blogging. The title and blurb are actually a bit alarmist. Our conclusion is that the sense of community around the China blogs has changed as the main discussions have moved [...] Two interesting articles today, both having to do with Chinese Internet culture, and both leading into an ethical question that came up in a conversation recently. The question was this: Is it OK to put out “viral” videos that embed brands or have some kind of commercial message, but not identify the company behind them [...] It’s symptomatic of something that most of the regular comments to this blog now seem to come to the version that syndicates on my Facebook page. I mention this because in response to yesterday’s post on the worthy Chinfographics blog, I received this comment from an old and sharp-eyed friend, Bob: [T]he front page [...] The latest Sinica podcast is up. In this episode, hosted by Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei.org, Forbes Beijing bureau chief Gady Epstein, Chinese journalist Qin Liwen and I discuss the recent rash of school attacks in China. It was great to have Liwen on board both because she has recently written about this issue and becase [...] To listen to people moan about the fact that China has sixty “Confucius Centers” in the US to America’s zilch-nada in China you’d think the Chinese were wrapping up hearts and minds around the planet while America gets relegated to the public diplomacy junk-heap alongside the usual despotic malcontents. While I’ll concede that China has [...] You may recall that I made something of an ill-starred trip to Hawaii last month to speak on a panel at the ThinkTech Hawaii NewsMorphosis event. I had previously posted video of all the panels at the event. Jay Fidell, who organized the event, has posted on Vimeo a video of just the panel I [...] Should Google have been in China? Did they make the right move in pulling out? Will this influence the Chinese government? What does it mean for foreign businesses in China? Are they evil or not? Who knows? Not me. And none of these questions are going to be answered in this post. But stick with me, [...] The week before last Imagethief was in Hawaii to participate in the NewsMorphosis panel organized by ThinkTech Hawaii and several other organizations. The last week or so since I got back have been a bit hectic, so I haven’t had a chance to write anything about the conference, or the activities around it. The whole conference [...] Just pulled into Narita on my way back from Beijing. We’d been parked in a holding pattern due to high winds (and experienced one of the most roller-coaster landings I’ve ever endured), which gave my bladder extra time to fill up and stretch. It’s the damn Diet Cokes that do it. Anyway, as I was [...] A couple of days old, but you should read this post from the Wall Street Journal’s China Real-Time Report, on silly things politicians said at the NPC. Sample: Li Hongzhong, governor of Hubei province, was asked by a People’s Daily reporter about last year’s case of a hotel worker whose murder charges were dismissed after she [...] As an observer of PR, one of the things I like about China is that the threshold for launching a cover-up is rock bottom. Sure, they can go big, as with the Songhua river benzene spill or the great melamine scandals of ‘08, but they’ve also kind of democratized the coverup. Imagethief believes that no [...] Yesterday, in the US, former journalist, academic and blogger Rebecca MacKinnon gave testimony to the senate in a hearing called, “Global Internet Freedom and the Rule of Law.” A couple of days ago, she posted the written version of her testimony. It’s worth reading the whole thing, as it discusses several issues relevant to the [...] Among the circles that Imagethief runs in it is relatively fashionable to be completely disdainful of the Chinese English-language media. This is not entirely unfair. Chinese English-language news sources have their uses, but by comparison with most international news sources they can often seem amateurish and sloppy and they have a strange tendency to combine [...] |
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