“We Shanghainese value our image. We don’t want to lose face in front of the entire world…”
Meme circulating in Chinese internet forums on special awards given to the Shanghai World Expo pavilions. Fun guide when you go to the Expo Park. See for yourself if these pavilions really do deserve their “awards”.
The Chinese people came together to mourn the victims of the Yushu Earthquake. Expo volunteers, students, and online portals contributed in their own ways.
Children’s writer Zheng Yuanjie proposes a Yushu Earthquake Memorial Hall for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo to grieve for the victims. Netizens give him a piece of their mind.
English translation of Baidu’s press statement in light of the Qinghai earthquake.
HUBS1, a hot Shanghai travel startup, is hiring an Online marketing manager for its English Expotia site. If you see the potential for e-commerce and online marketing in China and globally, this is a great career opportunity for you to further develop your e-commerce and marketing skills at a fast growing company.
Shanghai-based HUBS1 is hiring a Product Manager to develop the English version of Expotia.com, a new travel website focused on inbound international travelers to China. If you’re passionate about online marketing and e-commerce, and want to work for an up-and-coming venture-backed company, check this out.
Google leaving China will not be as big a revolution in the business world as you think. Getting excited over China’s loss of face may be playing into its hand.
Google.cn features manipulated & censored search results, but it still offers Chinese internet users a choice other than Baidu. Less choice is less freedom.
Kaiser Kuo speaks at TEDxHonolulu about the crisis in US-China relationships on a person-to-person level, exacerbated by large-scale and unmediated contact over the internet.
Summary of interesting points and the English-language China blogs mentioned in the recent BON TV David Moser interview with Jeremy Goldkorn and Michael Anti.
Does China’s mainstream media fear competition from new media like the internet? Editors of the People’s Daily don’t think so, and say bloggers are parasites.