Monthly Archives: November 2008

He stole my parking space!

A Chinese perspective on the Kaixin social network “He stole my parking space!” It’s 9 AM on Tuesday morning and my co-worker frantically runs over to my computer, types in his user name and password and begins to look at … Continue reading

TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailShare

Observer ABC: Making Sense of the Message

Many of you may have been curious about the meaning of the SMS message in my previous post covering the bulk SMS phenomenon in China. The content is not the most relevant to the Chinese marketplace, but it is still … Continue reading

TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailShare

China Announces $586 Billion Simulus Plan

The New York Times Online/November 9, 2008 BEIJING (AP) — China unveiled a $586 billion stimulus package Sunday in its biggest move to inoculate the world’s fourth-largest economy against the global financial crisis… Read More

TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailShare

SMS & IM: Communication Tools For “Indirect Directness”

How much money do you make? How much did you pay for your apartment? These are just a few of the typical questions that you may be asked the first time you meet a new Chinese friend or coworker. Why … Continue reading

TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailShare

The Wall Street crisis in the Chinese Media

Danwei.org/November 5,2008 Seismic shifts are reshaping Wall Street this year, and the grim denouement of that process is unfolding as we speak. There is an overwhelming consensus — brought to the fore by the second Obama-McCain debate â

TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailShare

Visual Observation: Beijing Tiananmen Square

TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailShare

Open Your Eyes…WIDER

China’s upper/middle class are consuming more than just luxury goods The delicious smell of Beijing roast duck mixed with the spicy scent of mapo tofu fills my nose. After our waitress finishes cleaning away the previous customers’ exce

TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailShare

China’s Dilemma-Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change

Series of Reports/For more info read All Roads Lead to China Thirty years of reform (1978–2008) have turned China into one of the largest and most dynamic economies in the world. China, however, faces three significant and profound challeng

TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailShare

Spread the message, China Mobile’s cashing in

3…2…1 RINGGGGGGGGG! When the clock strikes midnight on the eve of Chinese New Year fireworks are not the only cacophonous sound in the air. Millions of people’s mobile phones start ringing simultaneously as their friends and fa

TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailShare