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Coke and Huiyuan: Let the PR slanging begin

Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:36 AM by will
Have a read of this post from the Wall Street Journal's China Journal blog on some of the communciation issues Coke is having around its attempted takeover of the Huiyuan juice company in China: More damaging may be the allegations that Coke is trying Read More...
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Excellent gallery of late '50s Chinese political cartoons

Posted Sunday, August 31, 2008 2:58 AM by will
Via Boing Boing , Ethan Persoff's website of political and counterculture cartoons (and other interesting things) has an excellent gallery of 35 late '50s and early '60s Chinese political cartoons. Unfortunately the cartoons are not translated, but the Read More...
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An angry-youth asks who you're calling brainwashed

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:50 AM by will
Two or three weeks ago the New Yorker carried a good article by Evan Osnos on the phenomenon of China's "angry youth" ( fenqing ). Much of the article was a profile of one young man in particular. In truth, he sounds more passionate than angry. It's worth Read More...
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5/12, 9/11 and three minutes on Monday afternoon

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:19 AM by will
On Monday, May 12th, Imagethief was on the 27th floor of the Kerry Center for a meeting at 2:28PM. We all spent a couple of spooky minutes at the window watching Kerry and Fortune Plaza sway alarmingly, not knowing that it was just the faintest echo of Read More...
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Why do Americans like to hate on poor Jing Jing and Cha Cha?

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:46 PM by will
Another year, another congressional hearing at which American technology and Internet firms are taken to task for propping up the Golden Shield. This time it's Cisco taking it on the chin, thanks to the emergence of an internal presentation in which they Read More...
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Sina.com's anti-CNN banner

Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 6:19 AM by will
The interesting top banner from Sina's page dedicated to the perfidy of western media : Click on the image or the web page link above for the (large) full size version. The Chinese reads (as best I can translate it): Rise up! Angrily resist the demonization Read More...
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Jack Cafferty brews more trouble for CNN in China

Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:47 AM by will
CNN hasn't had a good go of things in China recently. Roundly pilloried for allegedly "biased" coverage of the riots in Tibet, they found themselves the subject of a popular website, " Anti-CNN ", and featured in a critical video that went viral in China Read More...
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A few stories to start the new year

Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:56 AM by will
I am ringing in 2008 by being officially too lazy to write anything original. But here are a few interesting stories from the past few days that are worth a read: And I thought Aussies were relaxed Controversy in Australia, which has announced the implementation Read More...
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