Posts by: Kai Pan
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August 25, 2011
Fu Ying, China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, in an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel. Many of her responses were good, but here's why some were bad...
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March 27, 2011
The NYT has added an Editor's Note acknowledging that the anecdote it used to report on Chinese censorship "could not be assumed to represent a broader trend."
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March 26, 2011
Sharon LaFraniere and David Barboza of the New York Times suggest that uttering the word "protest" in China may get your cell phone call disconnected. Really?
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October 16, 2010
Thousands of Chinese hold anti-Japanese protests in Chengdu as thousands more line up for hours to visit Japan's pavilions at the Shanghai 2010 World Expo.
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October 9, 2010
Reactions from the Western media & Chinese government have been typical. While meaningful symbolically, it's unlikely to lead to any practical near-term change.
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October 2, 2010
Chinese netizens are forwarding around these photos of "large-scale" anti-China demonstrations in Japan in response to the recent Diaoyu Islands collision.
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September 27, 2010
These maps created by Yanko Tsvetkov illustrate the geography of Europe as seen through the eyes of various Europeans (and Americans). Is there one for Asia?
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September 20, 2010
One Chinese blogger suggests that communism is why some drivers, upon accidentally hitting someone, will choose to run them over repeatedly until they're dead.
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September 17, 2010
After Thousands Of Years Of Civilization…
“It’s simply assumed, for instance, that anyone who is working for the government is meant to be bribed.”
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September 9, 2010
Google China's recent advertising campaign appears before the latest Hollywood blockbuster to make it onto Chinese cinemas, Inception. What does this mean?
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September 8, 2010
Poll: Is Media Bias Getting Worse and Can Something Be Done?
Read “The Journalists Formerly Known as the Media: My Advice to the Next Generation” by Jay Rosen.
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August 31, 2010
Is Feng Xiaogang's movie about the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake in China worth watching? Sure. Is it epic? No. Could it have been? Yes...but it wasn't. Here's why.
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August 18, 2010
Semi-intelligent musings on Western media bias like: "It's good to combat Western media bias. It's not so good when you emphasize 'Western' over 'media bias'."
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August 17, 2010
Is it "immoral and propgandistic" behavior to report China surpassing the United Sttes as the world's largest energy consumer without citing per capita figures?
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August 13, 2010
Did the passage of California Prop 8 banning homosexual marriages somehow contribute to "the world" judging democracy on its adherence to science and fact?
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August 12, 2010
Venting Doesn’t Help With Your “Life In China” Frustrations
Catharsis, or venting, doesn’t actually help you deal with your anger, frustrations, or other negative emotions. It apparently only reinforces them. Doh!
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July 22, 2010
While some Chinese recognize the contributions Christian missionaries have brought to modernizing China, is the growth of religion a good or bad thing for China?
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July 15, 2010
“Muslim Honor Killing” of Noor Almaleki & Media Narratives
First Law of Media: offer the reader the opportunity to debate the conclusions, but force him to accept the form of the argument.
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July 10, 2010
How can the "#1 Internet & eCommerce analyst on Wall Street" be so completely ignorant yet confidently opinionated about Google's situation in China? Let's see.
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Google’s ICP License Renewed…Wow, That Was Easy
The Chinese government has surprisingly renewed the ICP license Google needs to keep Google.cn, accepting a link when it was unhappy with an automatic redirect.
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June 29, 2010
China's government tells Google it cannot keep redirecting Google.cn to google.com.hk if it wants to renew the ICP license required for the google.cn domain.
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June 24, 2010
Would you trust the People's Daily, official mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, to provide you with trusted internet search results? More so than Baidu?
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June 19, 2010
Recent news show that American builders & contractors had known about possible Chinese drywall issues but chose to stay quiet to continuing selling to customers.
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June 16, 2010
You’ve Always Known You Are Not So Smart
Just so Stan doesn’t feel lonely in being the only one apologizing for our recent lack of posts, I’m sorry….more »
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June 6, 2010
2 months after Google dismantled its internet search engine in China, the good news is that Google hasn't been blocked but the bad news is Baidu is stronger.
