Occasional Observations on Chinese Online Media and Other Topics
Posted in Blogosphere, Market, Realm of Thought on Oct 8th, 2008
China’s Internet community is ablaze these days with the Social Networking phenomenon. Whereas the Facebook hype seems to finally deflate (at least according my own subjective observations), the Chinese have just discovered the joys of six degrees social graphs and buddy functionality. Big portal providers and bloghosters like Blogbus are adding SNS features to their […]
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 […]