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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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The trouble with vox pop

Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:25 AM by will
Imagethief, being an arrogant son of a bitch and a bona-fide member of the Ivory Tower Elite, is seldom interested in what the common man has to say. Nothing gets me to change the channel faster than an "iReport" segment on CNN, or the BBC equivalent. 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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Really, we're just editing for word count

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:29 PM by will
Black and White Cat compares an August 10th New York Times article on Beijing's preparation for the Olympics with a heavily "improved" version run in translation in the Beijing Evening News (with attribution). The Cat creatively shows the omissions and Read More...
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All hail the Olympic Games, except for those who praise them

Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:35 AM by will
Xinhua headlines from the last 36 hours, almost all of which came to me in one Google news alert: Swiss media praise Beijing Olympic Games World leaders, media praise Beijing Olympics U.S. media praises "truly exceptional" Beijing Olympics Iranian media Read More...
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Nationalism in the news: Jon Ansfield on the Global Times

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:56 AM by will
Take some time and read journalist Jonathan Ansfield's post on Newsweek's China blog recounting his participation in a meeting with the editors of the Global Times ( 环球时报 ). The Global Times is the fiery, flag-waving, tabloid companion to the Party's 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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Why child-singing-gate is a PR perfect storm -- Amended

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:52 AM by will
Amended: Sorry--this wasn't meant to be published. It was a placeholder and a few notes for a possible full-length post. Apologies to all those who thought I'd got lazy and decided to move the tweet format into my regular blog posts. However, for posterity, Read More...
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21 Olympic edicts from the Chinese propaganda department

Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:29 PM by will
As published by the Sydney Morning Herald . No link to a Chinese version, no citation of a source, and no way of confirming if these are genuine. But they look pretty credible and consistent with prior guidelines from the propaganda bureau. Nothing surprising Read More...
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China loves a good spokesman

Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:47 AM by will
Not much I can add to this Xinhua article : Most Chinese pay attention to govt. spokesmen, want more transparency BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Wang Weitao, a PhD candidate at China's University of Science and Technology, said Premier Wen Jiabao's manner Read More...
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Hurting the feelings of the Chinese people

Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 5:42 AM by will
As a PR person you're always alert to formulaic messaging, where talking points or messages are repeated by various spokespeople in various forums. Skillfully executed, this kind of approach can saturate media channels with a message. The Bush administration Read More...
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Introducing the Jinan precision Segway assault squad!

Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:45 AM by will
An "anti-terrorism" drill in Jinan: Yeah, these guys won't be difficult to target at all... Also featured in this quite clearly made-for-TV exercise, a demonstration of that most selective and discriminate of urban pacification weapons, the flame thrower 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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The quake changes the game for the Olympics

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:28 AM by will
Have a read of this article in the Wall Street Journal that looks at the reaction of the activists that have been protesting the Beijing Olympics to China's devastating earthquake: Before the earthquake, China's image abroad had taken a beating. The first Read More...
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