Category Archives: Media and Advertising

China Businesscast: Chinese Word of Mouth with Sam Flemming

Flemming talks of net stars and other commercial trends in the Chinese web How do you sort through the massive noise of millions of messages posted daily on Chinese web forums, aka BBS sites? Sam Flemming, CEO of CIC Data, … Continue reading →

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Incest, beauty standards, and manipulating public opinion

A Jiang Wenli ad for Maxam cosmetics has a son saying he’d like to marry his mother. Debate has raged in the Chinese media; feminist commentator Lu Pin says that this is missing the point.

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Google – Youtube: it’s all about search

Koolhaas-hunting on Youtube: this Danwei video is a frequent search target Google’s recently-announced purchase of Youtube for the cool sum of 1.6 billion dollars has excited the chattering classes of the Internet. People are asking all kinds of things about … Continue reading →

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Writing and packaging young adult fiction for teenage girls

YA novels for girls, featuring GirlneYa vs. Xiao Nizi.

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CCTV News, the youth don’t need you no more

Within hours of the news of North Korea’s nuclear test breaking yesterday, the following video was published on Tudou, which is the most prominent of China’s Youtube clones. It is a clip from Phoenix TV in Hong Kong about the … Continue reading →

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Moonstruck: Fallout from the Mid-Autumn Festival

Traditional dress on the Moon Festival, mooncake pricing problems, and Zhang Gongyao’s initiative to junk the lunar calendar.

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China Businesscast: Interview with Ogilvy

In this episode, I interview Debby Cheung and Johan Vakidis of the Shanghai office of Ogilvy, the international marketing, advertising, and public relations firm. Having just interviewed Vanessa Seow of PR company Weber Shandwick, this interview sheds more light on … Continue reading →

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Another National Day
by Geremie R. Barmé

A translation by Geremie R. Barmé of interviews by Sang Ye of two individuals about their experiences before and after the revolution.

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China’s national anthem
by Peter Micic

Nie Er 聂耳 and the March of the Volunteers, presented by Peter Micic

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Confuciuan confusion

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. This report was compiled by Joel Martinsen, Bill Zhang and Jeremy Goldkorn. Will the real Confucius please stand up Confucius … Continue reading →

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