Author Archives: Jeremy Goldkorn

Mr Wu and Family, by Pallavi Aiyar

One of communism’s lingering legacies in China was a basic belief in the dignity of labour and to me it was this belief that created the broadest gulf between India and China; a chasm ultimately much harder to bridge than that of GDP growth rates or flashy infrastructure.

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Ink stained wretch at Next Media

The Far Eastern Economic Review‘s Travellers’ Tales inteviews Thomas Crampton at Next Media with tons paper destined to become the IHT.

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An Indian perspective on China: Pallavi Aiyar

Both China and India are experimenting with economic reforms although the pace and scope of these reforms differs. One of the greatest lacunae in India is administrative reform, so that we have a bloated administration that is not held to account for its shoddy implementation of legislation intended to help the poor. In China on the other hand, it’s the lack of political reform that hampers accountability.

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No blacks or Mongolians for bars, or no sources for SCMP?

A dodgy story in the South China Morning Post.

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The other Olympic architecture

An article about all the different Olympic projects including the lesser known stadia.

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Beijing: 纽约女导演寻找23-32岁居住在北京的单身女性

Looking for Chinese woman in Beijing for documentary film.

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Hu Jintao is also grandpa

‘Grandpa’ Hu Jintao welcomes children from the earthquake zone to Zhongnanhai.

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Beijing architecture fest

A round up of recent articles about Beijing’s new architecture.

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U.S. earthquake web page blocked?

An aftershock in Sichuan’s earthquake zone, and the a blocked web page.

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Reality TV woes and the 2008 China Media Yearbook

The Beijing-based media consultancy CMMI has released the 2008 Edition of their China Media Yearbook and Directory. The excellent “yearbook” section of the publication sports essays with summaries, analysis and forecasts on the development of China’s media and media policy. The book also includes a directory of China media business listings and a host of statistics and graphics on the media industry.

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