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Imagethief stumbled blearily to his computer this morning expecting a relaxed scan of the news but found the Chinese Twittersphere ablaze with the news of Google's bombshell blog post, which went up in the middle of the night early this morning our time. Titled ''A new approach to China'', the post, by Google's Senior Vice President for Corporate ...

Update: Due to the obnoxious autoplay of the two videos, I have removed the embedded versions so as not to drive  people who visit the site rather than using RSS totally insane. You can follow the links in the paragraph below to view parts one and two. -Will A couple of weeks ago I and Saina Silverman, late of Edelman and now independent, ...

On the sidelines of Ad:Tech Imagethief was cornered for a brief interview by the video sharing service Youku. The results are below. Won't be anything in this brief discussion that my audience doesn't already know, but you can check out the seasonal goatee. No Chinese subtitles, I'm afraid, which may explain why one of the two comments on ...

With everyone else on the planet weighing in on Obama's visit to China last week, I didn't want to miss the party. I wrote a brief article for the website of the magazine Foreign Policy comparing Chinese and American press coverage of the visit. The title and blurb are theirs (the title is much better than mine, but I never used the phrase ...

Imagethief will be moderating the digital PR panel at Ad:Tech Beijing (or, as they style it, ad:tech) tomorrow (November 18, Wednesday). Panelists will include Hong Kong-based Jeremy Woolf, SVP and global social media practice lead for Text 100; Vincent Li, digital lead for Edelman Beijing; and Jeffrey Wu, COO of CIG Advertising. Our blurb:The ...

From the strange PR files comes this article in today's Shanghai Daily about the Guizhou provincial pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. The theme is apparently liquor and girls. This seems like a winner on many levels (after all, it worked for the NFL), but the implementation is a bit weird:The province will make the liquor the centerpiece of its ...

Note: As threatened, Imagethief is coming out of hiatus from time to time, when things catch his eye. Last Wednesday, the 21st, the IT news channel of giant Chinese portal Sohu published the transcript of an interview of Sohu CEO Charles Zhang by Hong Kong-based BusinessWeek journalist Bruce Einhorn. All well and good, you might think. Chinese ...

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 ...

Imagethief arrived in China on June 6th, 2004, a naive and wide-eyed whelp of just 36. The last five years have been quite an education, and it's an older and (incrementally) wiser Imagethief who corresponds with you today. China years are like dog years. It's not so much the frequency of events as the amplitude. China seems a nation always on ...

It's funny, listenable (if you like country) and tragic all at the same time: As an amateur musician and frequent shipper of expensive things like underwater photography gear, this resonates. H/T @melvinyuan. Note: If you're reading this on Facebook, the video will not display. Follow the link to the original blog post, below.