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Wow. Have a listen. At what point does possibly legitimate advice becomes an abusive harangue? Discuss.

If you don't know the story, you can read up on the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal (and again in the Journal here, with more focus on the backlash for Skype). In a nutshell, the story is that the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which focuses on Internet, free-speech and censorship issues, released evidence that TOM-Skype, the joint ...

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 to silence critics of the deal in China, which were published in this Chinese language article ...

Today a colleague sent Imagethief a link to an interesting article from the UAE-based newspaper The National about one of the very small group of foreigners who came to China before or during the Communist Revolution and have stayed ever since. The article, a couple of weeks old but still worth a read, chronicles the life of Mr. Sidney Shapiro, an ...

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 images generally speak for themselves. If you're interested in Chinese propaganda art or Cold War ...

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 reading the whole thing, but there was one section I found particularly interesting:When ...

Now: China's gold medal team. Their talent is not to be doubted. Their ages...perhaps:   Then: The 1956 US national squad: Things sure have changed. And not just the fashions.  

First go to the New York Times website and read David Brooks' column about collectivism and the opening ceremony:The world can be divided in many ways — rich and poor, democratic and authoritarian — but one of the most striking is the divide between the societies with an individualist mentality and the ones with a collectivist mentality. ...

Seeing all the headlines about how China now has more Internet users than the US has given Imagethief the same unpleasant feeling that he gets when he runs a strip of nylon cordura between his teeth. Imagethief has no problem with China having more Internet users than the US. China has four times more people than the US, so this is as it should ...

After you swallow a fair dose of the Chinapocalypse coverage that tends to ricochet through western media it can be nice to have a little antidote. John Pomfret, the former Beijing bureau chief of the Washington Post and a long-time China correspondent, has written an opinion piece that attempts to cut through some of the common, alarmist (from a ...