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• How Steve Jobs Touched the Chinese Zeitgeist | TrackBack (0)
• Chinese Censors Take on the Nation’s Netizens | TrackBack (0)
• Would You Like a Job, Peggy Olson? | TrackBack (0)
• In Social Media We Trust? | TrackBack (0)
• You Know It's Almost Chinese New Year When . . . | TrackBack (0)
• Edelman Yunnan Clean Water Project | TrackBack (0)
• Embracing the Complexity of Public Affairs in China | TrackBack (0)
• Coming To a City Near You: The Chinese Tourist | TrackBack (0)
• The Smartest of the Great Apes | TrackBack (0)
• Internet A Key Ally for Chinese Journalist Pursued By Police | TrackBack (0)

October 15, 2011

How Steve Jobs Touched the Chinese Zeitgeist

The death of Steve Jobs echoed through China in a uniquely emotional and Chinese way.

Unlike the rest of the world, this event was not merely a chance to mourn the passing of a technology icon. Instead, it was an occasion for Chinese citizens, especially the emerging middle class that is the key to the nation’s consumer culture, to reflect on what Steve Jobs’ life said about their own prospects and future.

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August 31, 2011

Chinese Censors Take on the Nation’s Netizens

The battle between netizens and the government for control of content on China’s burgeoning social media outlets is heating up. China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua, fired a broadside this week at Chinese internet companies, urging the police and other regulators to do more to clean up “poisonous rumors” on the nation’s websites.

This comes just a few days after one of Beijing’s top Communist party leaders visited the offices of the nation’s most popular Twitter-like microblogging service, Sina Weibo, and strongly suggested that Sina do more to block the spread of “false information” among its 200 million plus users.

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April 6, 2011

Would You Like a Job, Peggy Olson?

The critically acclaimed TV show about the advertising industry, Mad Men, opened its latest season with an episode titled “Public Relations.” In a way that great television often does, the episode captured some stark truths: In this case, the essence of the PR industry in an era 35 years ago when advertising was the dog and PR was the tail of the marketing mix.

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January 31, 2011

In Social Media We Trust?

When the 2011 Edelman Trust Barometer survey was released last week, it generated a surprising amount of attention in China, and I was reminded of the power and the limits of social media.

It wasn’t so much the survey that prompted the notice, but rather one data point that was included when the overall global results were shared during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos.

The survey found that 88% of the people surveyed in China (more on that in a moment) trusted the government to do what is right. This unleashed a significant number of comments within Chinese social media, especially Sina Weibo, China’s premiere microblogging platform.

The gist of the comments was that this figure was impossibly high, given that most of the netizens posting comments said people in China do NOT trust the government.

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You Know It's Almost Chinese New Year When . . .

. . . the Third Ring, looking north from Fortune Plaza, looks like this at 1 p.m. on a Monday.

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