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Imagine my joy at this...

Posted Saturday, February 06, 2010 4:48 AM by will
A few days ago, on the construction site across the main boulevard from where I live, a set of huge characters went up, exhorting the workers to "close the gap, finish the building". OK, twenty-foot characters seemed a bit excessive, but exhortations Read More...
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Don't be too CNBC: Xinhua slaps down foreign financial media

Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 8:14 AM by will
In the latest salvo in the largely hidden war over the right to distribute financial news in China, Xinhua has accused western media of being complicit in the financial crisis. This claim has been made elsewhere, most famously by Jon Stewart in his now Read More...
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Coke, Huiyuan and the audiences that matter

Posted Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:19 AM by will
Nothing as timely as the blogs, I tell you. As everyone on the planet now knows, the Coke-Huiyuan deal has fallen through . It retrospect, it wasn't particularly surprising. It broke new ground in size, and public sentiment was never behind the deal. Read More...
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Clay Shirky on the fate of newspapers

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 6:14 AM by will
An interesting read from author Clay Shirky. The first couple of paragraphs: Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the Read More...
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BBC: China's return to the land

Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 12:35 AM by will
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville has a long and interesting video segment on the return of Chinese migrant laborers to the land. The video is online , but the BBC doesn't support embedding. Quentin, perhaps you could have a word with them about that... Read More...
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The end of Beijing's building boom

Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 6:56 AM by will
I've been wondering why the cranes atop the concrete skeleton going up across the street haven't started moving again, even though the lunar new year is well over. This very interesting LA Times article may have the answer: By [distressed real estate Read More...
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Danwei: How did Chinese media spin the recent GDP numbers?

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 6:40 AM by will
Danwei's Joel Martinsen has an interesting look at how different papers reported the recent gloomy economic news and the 2008 whole-year figures. Yes, there is some variation. Worth a read to see how different papers covered the numbers. It's all good Read More...
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Is the latest round of Chinese Internet purification a sign of things to come?

Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 5:22 AM by will
Imagethief enjoyed a lovely two-and-a-half weeks in the US over Christmas and New Year, during which I paid very little attention to what was happening in China. At my peril, it turned out, since I got back to find that Bullog had been harmonized , Zhang Read More...
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