Hao Hao ReportThe best China news and blog posts

Li Datong, former editor of The Freezing Point, gives his thoughts on how media censorship in China is on its last leg. In translation (via the awesome ESWN blog), the commentary is insightful and gives hope towards media in the Middle Kingdom.

While the Chinese might accuse the media of being anti-Chinese and yet very fair in the rest of its reporting, let me assure you that the media is going to be biased… I don’t think it is necessarily anti-Chinese, though I do think it is biased period.

Asian media sucks. Imagethief raps about just why that is.

While many China consultants try to model and/or describe best practices, its always helpful to look at bad practices–both as a teaching lesson and to laugh at a little. A look at why Krispy Kreme will probably fail in China.

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"The Beijing Olympic Games meets the aspiration of the Chinese people for the past 100 years and is also the common expectation of people worldwide," said Chinese President Hu Jintao

We can only revert to the rarely seen future perfect tense to describe how elated we will have been during after the Games. The Beijing Olympic Committee has even posted a poll of what the top ten stories from the Olympics will have been. This is perfect to me. They are trying to script things...

Not completely, anyway. A SwissCham Beijing lecture reveals how foreigners can own Chinese media online - and make lots of money. From a podcast.

China is a major force in all but one of the five major areas of cultural products recognized by UNESCO -- recorded media, printed media, visual arts, audiovisual media and heritage goods.

I wrote this article for an expat magazine that is widely distributed here in the top-tier Chinese cities. The idea was to chat about what is going on in the Chinese internet blogosphere. We ran with this topic, but this didn't get past the publisher's Government censor despite what I would would honestly describe as a cut-and-paste treatment of outsider's reactions and viewpoint to internet filtering here in China. So, rather than let it go to waste, here it is in its full, unabbreviated form. Let's see what happens from here.