Posted in Chinese media on April 27th, 2008 No Comments »
When reporting the incident in Tibet last month, a CNN website photograph shows a person running in front of a Chinese military truck — but it cropped out rioters stoning it. 1 The Washington post also provided false information 2 on the issue. Then some western media choose to report only the protests during [...]
Posted in Business-to-business, China, Communications in China on April 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
“I hired a student from a local university to do my translation…and it ended up hurting my reputation.”
This was the story I heard from a business contact I met with a couple of weeks ago. He works for a large chemical manufacturer with a presence in China, and they needed their website translated into Chinese. [...]
Posted in China marketing on April 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Genocide Olympics. Tibetan protest Olympics. As the world continues to pelt rotten issues at China left and right in the race towards the Summer Games, somehow the stench is coming back at us.
Sure, I get it — the Olympics are a perfect opp for bringing to light the human rights violations within China (Tibet included) [...]
Posted in Culture on April 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Have you swept the tombs of your ancestors recently? In Chinese culture, April 4th is the Tomb-Sweeping Festival, or Qingming Festival, meaning Pure and Bright Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Festival is on the 15th day from the Spring Equinox and is one of the official public holidays in China starting in 2008. The festival is a time [...]
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