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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 hung on the side of construction sites are pretty common in this town. Then it turned out that ...

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, airplanes aside, felt like it was all in slow motion). More on the parade from me ...

This article is a couple of weeks old now, but I still suggest taking a moment to read Gady Epstein's recent Forbes piece on the challenges facing China's successful video sharing sites. More than any other article I've read recently, this article lays out the unique political minefield that these companies are tiptoeing through. In particular, ...

ESWN translates a good essay on proposed reforms of CCTV's ''Network News'', the nightly news broadcast that is something of a televised version of the People's Daily: A protocol driven recitation of government messages.Since inception, the ''Network News'' has been described as a three-part program: In the first ten minutes, the state leaders are ...

There was an interesting profile of CCTV personality Rui Chenggang by journalist Dave Barboza in yesterday's New York Times. Or, at least as interesting as a 1,200 word profile can be. With all respect to Mr. Barboza, who has done some great stories, I get the feeling Rui and the phenomenon he represents would make a good subject for 10,000 words ...