Occasional Observations on Chinese Online Media and Other Topics
Posted in Input on Jan 20th, 2009
Behind the Chinese blogging boom (Danwei.org, January 19, 2009) - Column by Kato Yoshikazu, originally from Oriental Outlook (瞭望东方周刊), about the significance of blogs in contemporary chinese media culture. Very good
Li Changchun on the media and China’s “global influence” (CMP, January 19, 2009) - Background by David Bandurski about chinese government’s plans to put 6.6 […]
Posted in Input on Oct 3rd, 2008
China tangled up in red, white and blue (Shen Dingli, Asia Times, 2008-10-03) - Overview of China’s ‘official’ attitude towards the US elections by a scholar from Fudan University (a little too ‘balanced’ to be really interesting)
The Great Crash of China (Brian Klein, FEER, 2008-10-01) - Misleadingly titled article giving a rather bleak outlook on […]
Posted in Input on Oct 1st, 2008
China watches U.S. elections with bemusement (Los Angeles Times, 2008-09-06) - To the Chinese the US elections seem to be a strange, overdone spectacle
The Three Closenesses 三贴近 (CMP Media Dictionary) - Li Changchun’s January 2003 elaboration on Jiang Zemin’s notion of “guiding of public opinion” with the three-tiered “Closeness to reality, closeness to the masses […]