Category Archives: Media and Advertising

China Dialogue: consumption in China

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

China Dialogue, the bilingual discussion website about Chinese environmental issues, has published an article about consumption and consumerism. The piece looks at how the growth of Western style consumerism is not sustainable: If by 2030 China and India alone were … Continue reading →

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Phil Cunningham responds to Danwei comments

Posted on 2006-07-24 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Philip J. Cunningham responds to criticisms in re Chinapol.

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Let the Spiel Begin
by Geremie R. Barmé

Posted on 2006-07-24 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Zhang Yimou, the Olympics opening ceremony, and a historically positive song and dance epics.

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by Geremie R. Barmé

Rupert Murdoch and new media in China

Posted on 2006-07-21 by Jeremy Goldkorn

你好中国二点零 Danwei’s mentor Rupert Murdoch is talking about China again, and this time he’s on about new media. According to a report on the Australian website of The Advertiser (which Murdoch’s News Corporation owns): News Corporation now sees new media … Continue reading →

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Chinese papers note Bush’s Russian reconciliation

Posted on 2006-07-21 by Will

Bush and Putin, very cosy Unfortunately for the Bush administration, Bush’s rhetorical softening toward his Russian hosts at the G8 summit has not gone unnoticed in China. For the past few years, both Russia and China have derided U.S. rhetorical … Continue reading →

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Crazy Stone and piracy

Posted on 2006-07-21 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Shanghaiist has compiled a report on Crazy Stone (疯狂石头), the low budget Warner Bros. film that is both generating buzz and doing very well at the box office, despite its Sichuan dialect dialogue. Excerpt: Warner Bros. is taking an aggressive … Continue reading →

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China: 123 million Net users and counting

Posted on 2006-07-21 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The latest statisitics are out from government controlled CNNIC (China interNet Network Information Center 中国互联网信息中心): Number of Internet users in China: 123 million Computer Hosts: 54.5 million WWW Websites: 788,400 International Bandwidth: 214,175 Mbit/s 18-24 year olds make up 38.9% … Continue reading →

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Youtube blocked in China?

Posted on 2006-07-20 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Youtube blocked and returns in July 2006.

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China Daily becomes an image source for Fleshbot

Posted on 2006-07-19 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Fleshbot enjoys Chinese state-owned media Fleshbot is the porn-watching blog of the New York based Gawker Media mini-empire, one of the most succesful blog media companies, run out of New York by former Financial Times journalist Nick Denton. So, who … Continue reading →

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Sun Yafei: tell me what’s wrong with China

Posted on 2006-07-18 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Last week Danwei’s Joel Martinsen translated an article from the New Century Weekly by Sun Yafei, a writer living in the USA, titled America through Chinese eyes – a columnist living abroad reports on ugly Americans. The post inspired many … Continue reading →

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