Category Archives: Foreign media on China

China Specials: Colbert Report and The Times

Stephen Colbert, one of the hosts of spoof American news program The Daily Show has been doing a series of segments about China. The first one defines China as a “frenemy” of the United States. It’s funny despite the fortune … Continue reading →

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Hu Jintao in Africa: a roundup of news and views

In Zambia with President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa – Xinhua image Chinese president Hu Jintao is in Africa again, continuing China’s aggressively friendly Africa policy with a tour that takes in Sudan, Zambia, Cameroun, Liberia, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique and the … Continue reading →

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China in headlines

Below are some recent headlines from mainstream media and blogs. If you read a huge variety of English language media, you can get an idea of the complexity of China’s increasingly diverse society. Of course, most people in the West … Continue reading →

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Time magazine’s China blog

Time magazine’s China correspondents have a blog, called The China Blog. Other Mainland-based journalists with active blogs are Richard Spencer of The Daily Telegraph and Tim Johnson of McClatchy Newspapers. James Fallows, National Editor of The Atlantic Monthly, lives in … Continue reading →

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Who has it in for China?

Global People (环球人物) magazine looks at people who have said bad things about China in 2006.

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Survey: China foreign correspondents and blogs

Former CNN Beijing bureau chief turned blogger and blog researcher Rebecca Mackinnon is conducting a survey about blogs and their influence on foreign correspondents in China. If you are a foreign correspondent, you are invited to complete the survey: see … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: The Future of Chinese Media

Earnshaw talks about running a lifestyle magazine in China and believes the death of magazines is imminent. The Chinese expression 从无到有(cong2wu2dao4you3), to emerge from nothingness, would be a fair way to describe how traditional and new forms of Chinese media … Continue reading →

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Africa and China: The Great Ndaba

Elephants and pyramids in Beijing Billboards all over Beijing are welcoming ministers and representatives from 48 African countries to a high profile summit meeting called the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). It’s intended to be a consensus building event — … Continue reading →

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Xinhua’s new rules; foreigners’ old complaints

Xinhua freezes out Reuters for cash; comments from historical and contemporary sources.

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Rui’an protests documented online

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. High school blues Videos of Rui’an protests Short videos of clashes between protesters and armed police in Rui’an are circulating … Continue reading →

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