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Seriously? They blocked IMDB?

Posted Thursday, January 07, 2010 8:51 AM by will
Imagethief is as annoyed by the Great Firewall (or Net Nanny or what-have-you) as anyone who lives in China and uses overseas social networks. One of the great joys of my pox-afflicted Christmas vacation was having one of my annual bursts of unfettered Read More...
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The only version of China's National Day Parade you need to watch

Posted Friday, October 02, 2009 8:16 AM by will
An outstanding video from photojournalist Dan Chung, who was in the stands for yesterday's National Day parade and has produced a three-and-a-half minute version with a mix of time-lapse and slow motion. Much more watchable the tedious CCTV version (which, Read More...
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Video: Tanks roll in Beijing for the PRC 60th anniversary parade rehearsal

Posted Sunday, September 06, 2009 8:41 AM by will
We interrupt this hiatus, as we threatened we would from time to time, to bring you some video from this evening's dress rehearsal for the upcoming military parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. As it happens, the Read More...
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Consultants say hardened Chinese death-nerds are coming for your daughters

Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:43 AM by will
Yes, it's true. Those Chinese death-nerds are everywhere. They're in your bank account. They're in the Pentagon. They're sending naked pictures of themselves to your daughter. And they're completely invulnerable to all known countermeasures! Or at least Read More...
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Demystifying Chinese hackers

Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5:43 AM by will
Further to recent salacious reports of sinister Chinese plots to hack into the Pentagon/the White House/NORAD/your refrigerator, some lucid analysis of reporting on the issue from Adam Minter. Adam did a Q&A with journalist Mara Hvistendahl, author Read More...
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Rebecca MacKinnon's conversation with Anti-CNN

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:05 AM by will
Take a moment and read Rebecca MacKinnon's post on her recent interview with the founders of Anti-CNN , the Chinese website that sprang up in the wake of what was seen by many Chinese people to be biased coverage of the unrest in Tibet in March, 2008. Read More...
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Deterrence, communication and a splendid parade

Posted Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:09 PM by will
MCNAMARA I believe the President made it clear that there would be no firing on ships without his express permission. ADMIRAL ANDERSON With all due respect, Mr. Secretary, we were not firing on the ship. Firing on a ship means attacking the ship. We were Read More...
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BBC World Service poll: Nobody understands our wonderfulness

Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:38 AM by will
Imagethief was interested to have a look at the BBC World Service's recent poll (PDF) on public views of several major countries and the EU. I came across this via the blog of former China journalist John Pomfret, who called out China's extremely positive 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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Richard Spencer interview in Danwei

Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:45 AM by will
Imagethief had a lot of time for Richard Spencer's blog when Spencer was the Daily Telegraph's man in Beijing. Richard was rather ahead of the blogging journalist wave. He has recently moved on to a new posting in Dubai (where I presume he is now covering Read More...
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In a world where cadres greenlight the movies...

Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 7:07 AM by will
Imagethief didn't watch the Oscars for a couple of reasons. First, time-zone difficulty. Like the Superbowl, they're on during my Monday morning, which makes them damned inconvenient. Also, like the Superbowl, the Oscars age faster than a Vladivostok Read More...
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2008 best-of-Imagethief and statistics

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:01 AM by will
First, Imagethief feels he owes his readers an apology. Anyone who has been with me for longer than a few months will have noticed that the last third of 2008 yielded a sparse crop of posts. For this I blame a very heavy workload and an increasingly demanding Read More...
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Definitive analysis of who is hurting the feelings of the Chinese people

Posted Sunday, December 14, 2008 12:59 AM by will
From the work of two other bloggers Danwei consolidates a wonderful dig at one of the most tiresome rhetorical devices of the Chinese government, "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people". Genius. The geopolitically astute among you will probably be Read More...
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If you're angry about Guns'n'Roses surely it must be 1991

Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 6:54 AM by will
Let's all take a moment to appreciate the Global Times , the nationalist tabloid cousin to the staid People's Daily , which has decided to get indignant about the new Guns'n'Roses album, "Chinese Democracy". It's not that the Chinese people don't have Read More...
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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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