Category Archives: Internet and Media

Baidu eyes Internet finance industry?

Posted on 2013-10-17 by Eric Mu

An article published by China Business News 第一财经日报 on October 17 claims to provide a glimpse into search giant Baidu’s ambitions to enter the Internet financial industry. The article quotes a source “close to the matter” who says that Baidu … Continue reading →

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Pleasant Goat too violent?

Posted on 2013-10-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A Tom and Jerry style animated cartoon featuring a heroic goat who constantly saves his fellow goats from a wolf who has gastronomic designs over the members of Goatville, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (喜羊羊与灰太狼) seems an unlikely target for the … Continue reading →

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Nongfu Spring water: How food safety scandals affect a company’s image

Posted on 2013-09-02 by Danwei

This article is by Chris Marquis, Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School and Zoe Yang, Research Associate at the Harvard Business School. You can find more of their work on Civil China. Food safety is one of the most serious … Continue reading →

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Satan Lucky’s Floating World

Posted on 2013-08-29 by Alexander Ye

Satan Lucky is the pen name of cartoonist and illustrator based in Beijing. He publishes some of his work on Weibo. His style is based on Ukiyo-e — literally “pictures of the floating world”, the traditional Japanese style of woodblock prints and paintings … Continue reading →

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China’s two greatest Internet rumor mongers and “black PR” philanderers arrested

Posted on 2013-08-22 by Neil Thomas

Although the entire foreign press corps and many Chinese Internet users are focused on the trial of Bo Xilairight now, many newspapers and websites are devoting space to a news story and propaganda campaign about online “rumor mongering”. Two suspected rumor … Continue reading →

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Xue Manzi: How Chinese social media can be a force for good

Posted on 2013-08-20 by Neil Thomas

Update August 25: Soon after this was published, Xue Manzi ran into trouble with the police. See this Shanghaiist story: Chinese-American investor Charles Xue arrested in Beijing in ‘prostitution’ sting. It seems that other social media figures are also being targeted … Continue reading →

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Danwei Model Workers 2013

Posted on 2013-08-16 by Danwei

Almost eight years ago in December 2005, Danwei published the first Model Worker Awards, with the following note: Blogs went mainstream this year. Proof, if needed, is that The Economist now uses the noun and verb ‘blog’ without explanation. So it seems … Continue reading →

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Bo Xilai indicted: “No-one is above the law”

Posted on 2013-07-26 by Johan van de Ven

Disgraced former Chongqing Party boss Bo Xilai was indicted yesterday on charges of accepting bribes, corruption, and abuse of official power. Today, Chinese newspapers have responded. The People’s Daily (人民日报) published a strongly-worded editorial under the headline “No one is above the … Continue reading →

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Baidu’s guide to the eight biggest Internet scams in China

Posted on 2013-07-25 by Neil Thomas

The top headline of the front page of today’s Beijing Evening News (北京晚报) is ‘Bo Xilai indicted today’. The Global Times has a good English summary of the way the party is spinning the story. Also on the front page is the headline “21 … Continue reading →

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Zhejiang Plane Crash Victims: “Good Riddance!”

Posted on 2013-07-12 by Hans Gaebler

In recent days, controversy has swirled around the backgrounds of Wang Linjia 王琳佳 and Ye Mengyuan 叶梦圆, the two Zhejiang middle school students who died in Saturday’s San Francisco plane crash, with some Chinese netizens saying: “good riddance” (好死了). While … Continue reading →

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