American Public Media’s Marketplace is broadcasting a special report Live from China from January 9-20. Their website includes the the full-show audio as well as Latest Features, Photo Gallery, Music, Economic Timeline and Story Archives. It also includes a blog, in which correspondent Jocelyn Ford writes about covering the recent protests in Zhongshan: First thing […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: It is more than 7,000 miles from New York’s various corporate headquarters to the skyscrapers of Shanghai, but the workings of media companies like Time Warner and NBC Universal loom large in the mind of Li Ruigang. Mr. Li runs the Shanghai Media Group, a budding Chinese conglomerate with a […]
Read MoreFrom The Observer: Dongtan will be a relatively quiet place, where most of the noise will come from birdsong, laughter and music rather than the petrol or diesel engine,’ says Peter Head, the driving force behind the project. The Arup sustainable development expert was speaking in Shanghai last month at a meeting with Shanghai Industrial […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: At Korea City, on the top floor of the Xidan Shopping Center, a warren of tiny shops sell hip-hop clothes, movies, music, cosmetics and other offerings in the South Korean style. A South Korean businessman eats at one of the many Korean restaurants in Beijing. South Korea’s cultural influence on […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via CNET, The China Daily also published this article on their site: The new wave of blogging took off earlier this year. In the past, a few pioneers of the form stood out, but now huge communities of...
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Washington Post: A typical Chinese Internet user is a young male who prefers instant messaging to e-mail, rarely makes online purchases and favors news, music and games sites, according to a new study. The only major public opinion research tracking Internet use in China, the survey was conducted in five […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: Video recorder in hand, Wang Hong sat inside a small stone-and-brick house with one of China’s aging musical masters ” a Mongolian vocalist named Hajab who once sang his region’s ancestral melodies for Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Wang had ventured from his home in San Francisco to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia […]
Read MoreFrom ABC News: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger left for China on Sunday for a six-day mission to encourage Chinese officials to crack down on the piracy of copyrighted music, movies and software and to promote California products. The trip also gives him a chance to revive his political image after the bruising defeat of his “year […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The half-poetic, half-academic title of the Friday program at the Peter Norton Symphony Space was “Yunnan Revealed: Indigenous Music and Dance From China’s Land of Clouds.” It was full of interesting bits, and everywhere it has been, which is mostly to East Coast colleges, it has been festooned with panels […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.co.uk: Yang Chengang was a music teacher by day and lounge singer by night in central China’s Hubei province when one day three years ago a friend suggested putting one of his songs on the Internet. Fast forward to 2005, when Yang and his song, “Mice Love Rice,” have become two of the hottest […]
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