From The International Herald Tribune (link): On bright red billboards throughout the city, Michelangelo’s “David” says “Ni hao!” to a terra cotta warrior, who responds “Ciao!” It’s the Year of Italy in China, a cultural extravaganza highlighting Italian art, music and design. With visitors flocking to see paintings by Michelangelo, Puccini arias soaring through the […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Although just a fraction of all Chinese go online — and most who do play games, download music or gossip with friends — widespread Internet use in the nation’s largest cities and among the educated is changing the way Chinese learn about the world and weakening the Communist Party’s monopoly on […]
Read MoreAmerican 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 […]
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