As the Paris Olympics holds its star-studded opening ceremony, amid transportation disruptions caused by coordinated arson attacks on three French high-speed trains, Chinese social media interest in the Olympics remains notably...
In an attempt to increase China’s soft power and boost its international image, the Chinese...
Descendants of China’s Communist founding fathers have been pushing for the early release of...
Why do the Chinese get so touchy about their country’s image? After a series of difficult conversations outside Beijing cinemas, Dan Edwards has a few ideas: China’s leaders contend that their rigorous suppression of...
The trend in Chinese ideology is going back to harmony (和谐) as a “universal value.” The term “harmonious society” (和谐社会) has been used before by Hu Jintao. As discussed in the fifth annual Beijing Forum...
As China approaches its third mission into space, and the country’s first spacewalk, it not only is making history, but the timeliness of the walk after the Olympics has the additional component of helping build...
James Farrer is associate professor of sociology at Sophia University in Tokyo. He writes in the ChinaBeat blog: Seeing the Olympics as a watershed event, Japanese commentators have speculated about a “post-Olympic”...
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is senior associate dean and Lester Crown professor of management practice at the Yale School of Management. He led the Yale Global Leadership Forum at the Beijing Olympics and studied the Atlanta Committee...
From the Business Standard: For the last two decades, Chinese leaders have been diligently trying to build a new edifice in order to gain some of that missing respect. This made a successful Olympic Games, when all the world...
“Beijing Olympics showcased the rising might of China and its continuing free speech phobia,” said the Houston Chronicle: The opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics featured an opulent cast of 10,000...
Tion Kwa, an editorial writer at The Straits Times in Singapore, is currently a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society in Washington. He writes in the Japan Times: What I found particularly disquieting about the opening...
Henry Sanderson reports for the Associated Press: … the modern image that China is showcasing to the world during its turn in the white-hot Olympic spotlight may be nice to look at, but the Communist Party remains firmly...
Roger Ebert writes in the Chicago Sun-Times: The 2008 Olympics have been magnificently organized and supported by China. That much is obvious. The Bird’s Nest is not only spectacular in appearance, but functional and...
Editor, reporter Sam Eifling writes in the Columbia Journalism Review: The swell of sour press about the Olympics may have begun with a couple of crooked teeth. It was clear to anyone who’d ever watched a person sing while...
From Jessica & Joel’s China Hope Live blog, (h/t Fool’s Mountain): I like living in China. I like living in an all-Chinese neighbourhood and being part of a Chinese community. I like learning Mandarin. I like...
From the New Statesman: Journalists make poor prophets, but I think I’m on safe ground here: early next week the Chinese government will declare that the Olympics have been a roaring success. The International Olympic...
From the Washington Post: The empty Beijing hotel rooms and the lower-than-usual interest in the Games outside China are attributable to more than the strict visa policies and security measures that have discouraged travel to...
From New York Times: Despite China’s remarkable economic rise, and its efforts to spread its influence in Asia through what is known as “soft power,” the country still lags far behind the United States in that sphere, according...
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