Tag Archives: China

Red Packets in the USA!

Posted on August 23, 2025 by Will Moss

Evaluating a New York media scandal on the international beer metric Twenty years ago last March, I wrote my first blog post about PR in China. I had been living and blogging in China for nine months, but my early posts focused … Continue reading →

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The Life and Death of a Cool Phone

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Will Moss

That time we tried to make the Moto X in the U.S.A. I’d been working for Burson-Marsteller in China for nearly six years when I got poached away by our client, Motorola. Jumping from agencies to clients can be tricky, … Continue reading →

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Airshow!

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Will Moss

Family fun at America’s answer to the military parade We were living in Beijing in 2009 when the Party celebrated the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the People’s Republic. The main event was a giant military parade that would … Continue reading →

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Re-Sanitized for My Protection

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Will Moss

Two Decades Walking the Lines of Self-Censorship Twenty years ago, I wrote a post on this old China blog, “Sanitized for My Protection,” in which I discussed my approach to self-censorship. The post was prompted by a reader comment asking … Continue reading →

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Imagethief is Dead! Long Live Imagethief

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Will Moss

I surrender to the inevitable, plus a state-of-the-newsletter update In 2004, in one of the great over-reactions of my life, I moved from Singapore to China because I was bored. This was a giant adventure and a hazardous level of … Continue reading →

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Nasty for the Motherland!

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Will Moss

Can the administrative state get horny on main? Cards on the table, I’m a fan of the administrative state. Societies are large and complex, and a little technocratic competence goes a long way in ensuring the availability of public goods … Continue reading →

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Leaping into the Unknown (Again)

Posted on September 3, 2024 by Will Moss

A little over 20 years ago, a man I respected offered me a job I was interested in. This sent me into a panic. I had been living in Singapore for eight years and was going stir crazy. Following two … Continue reading →

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David Wolf – remembering a China hand

Posted on April 8, 2023 by Will Moss

In June 2004, I quit a perfectly good job at a little PR firm in Singapore and went to Beijing to do a three month language program. Eight years in Singapore had made me a bit stir crazy and China, … Continue reading →

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Reverse Culture Shock and Other Myths

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Will Moss

Early last year I moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area after seventeen years in Asia. The number one thing people here asked me about that was, “What do you think of the Niners this year?” because, when push … Continue reading →

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I’m leaving China and it doesn’t mean a thing

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Will Moss

It started with the oven. In Singapore in 2001 I bought a used Sharp R-8H50(B)T Rotisserie combination microwave and convection oven from my buddy, Tuck Wai, for S$200. Say what you will about the Sharp Corporation, which is struggling, but … Continue reading →

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