Category Archives: Internet and Media

Danwei Model Workers 2014

Posted on 2014-10-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Danwei has been publishing the Model Worker awards – our list of the best websites, blogs, Twitter feeds and podcasts on China since 2005 (there are links to the earlier awards at the bottom of this post). This year, we’ve … Continue reading →

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Air pollution policy making and social media in Beijing, 2011-2013

Posted on 2014-04-24 by Johan van de Ven

This article is by Johan van de Ven, whose undergraduate dissertation at Oxford University examined the effects of factors such as environmental movements, diplomacy and social media on air pollution policy-making in China. In a study conducted from June to … Continue reading →

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A Brief Guide to China’s Media Landscape – February 2014

Posted on 2014-02-20 by Rachel Wang

The table below shows mainland China’s most important websites, newspapers, and broadcast news organizations, together with numbers for website traffic, circulation and audience. The numbers are guesstimates based on media reports, listed companies’ public filings, media advertising rate cards, Alexa.com … Continue reading →

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Gree interested in investing in Meizu?

Posted on 2014-02-17 by Eric Mu

Fans of mobile phone brand Meizu were recently allowed a rare glimpse of J. Wong, the reclusive founder of the brand of sleek Android-powered smartphones based in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. In a two-hour speech posted online, Wong announced that he … Continue reading →

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Police bust PR companies for illegal deletion of news and social media postings

Posted on 2013-12-07 by Jeremy Goldkorn

On December 5, the People’s Daily published a report about a police investigation into companies that offer services to delete news items and social media postings from the Internet. The article does not, of course, mention that the biggest deleter of information … Continue reading →

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Internet Poll on changing China’s strange public holiday system

Posted on 2013-11-28 by Hudson Lockett

While much of the world looks forward to official holidays that can be predicted years in advance, China’s annual muddle over the coming year’s holiday schedule has long been a reliable source of confusion. But yesterday the Holiday Office published … Continue reading →

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Big three Chinese telecom operators criticized for profiting from spam

Posted on 2013-10-24 by Rachel Wang

Beijing Times 京华时报 yesterday published an article (based on a report in the CCTV 1 program Focus Interview 焦点访谈) analyzing the profit chain of spam texts sent by China’s three leading telecommunication operators. According to the report, many spam texts are sent from numbers … Continue reading →

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Mobile banking: Minsheng bank punches above its weight

Posted on 2013-10-24 by Eric Mu

EnfoDesk, a Chinese market research company, published a report on China’s mobile phone banking sector. According to the report, bank transactions conducted via mobile phones in Q4 of 2013 reached just over 370 billion yuan, 35.90% higher than the previous … Continue reading →

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Paper fights back against journalist arrest, Zoomlion alleged fraud back in spotlight

Posted on 2013-10-23 by Eric Mu

Guangzhou-based New Express ran a front page story today with a massive headline reading RELEASE HIM (请放人). The article requests the Changsha police authorities to release Chen Yongzhou (陈永洲), a journalist working for the newspaper who was arrested on October 19 at … Continue reading →

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Does Vancl face a cash crunch?

Posted on 2013-10-21 by Eric Mu

Upstart Chinese clothing brand Vancl, a rising Internet star that aims to be Zara and Amazon rolled into one, has been the subject of a series of negative news reports. Of late, according to New Financial Observer(新金融观察报 ), a financial newspaper … Continue reading →

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