Zhang Lijia When people compare the China Daily of twenty years ago with the Chinese English-language publication of today, they might think that things have improved. They might have, but they are still not well.Jeremy Goldkorn‘s Danwei points at an article by the Chinese author Zhang Lijia, where she defendsRead More →
Image via Wikipedia In my quest for interesting new angles and possible speakers for the China Speakers Bureau I have started to read a book I received yesterday from the publisher Wiley “China’s Creative Imperative: How Creativity is Transforming Society and Business in China” by Kunal Sinha, working for Ogilvy,Read More →
Zhang Lijia Celebrity author Zhang Lijia expresses in the Korea Times her amazement about the ignorance on China she noted when she was on a recent book tour in the United States, and tells why she support the Beijing Olympics: Zhang Lijia, author of the New York Times bestseller, “SocialismRead More →
Kaiser Kuo The Beijing Olympics will be the first one facing a full scale web2.0 exposure and Ogilviy’s new media guru Kaiser Kuo looks at his weblog at the dilemma’s: There’s ample irony, and for some perhaps a certain poetic justice, in this — that the capital city of aRead More →
Arthur Kroeber China is ready for democracy, but its ‘middle class’ is opposing it, writes Arthur Kroeber on Tuesday in the Financial Times.In debates the emerging consumers and the Chinese governments most media depict both as opposing forces in the struggle for more democracy, but according to Kroeber they areRead More →
Kaiser Kuo Kaiser Kuo’s plea to foreign correspondents attending the Beijing Olympics to forget the cliches about China, made it today to Reuters. “I think the highest blood boiler for me is the phrase ‘coming-out party’,” he told Reuters after writing a tongue-in-cheek column warning the media of the pitfallsRead More →
Zhang Lijia Author Zhang Lijia remembers her youth and tells the world it is about time to stop criticising China, in Comments are for free of The Guardian. She documents the massive changes the world has been going through but who are not seen by many in the outside world.Read More →
Kaiser Kuo China and the internet are hitting the international agenda yet again as the Beijing Olympics draw near. That is a good moment to listen to our own internet guru Kaiser Kuo, former journalist, now director digital strategy at Ogilvy in Beijing. Taking on journalistic cliches about China, explainingRead More →
Johnny L. Chan Alright, this could have happened everyday. Here in the radio program Marketplace, three of our prominent speakers at The China Speakers Bureau explain US companies what problems they might face when entering the China market.They disagree profoundly with each other. Shaun Rein of research company CMR explainsRead More →
Shaun Rein In another powerful argument Shaun Rein explains to Bloomberg why Olympic sponsoring is not helping the advertisers much in China this year. “Eighty percent of the Chinese does not care who the sponsor is,” he says. “Advertisers fail to understand what the consumers want.”More at Bloomberg. Shaun ReinRead More →
Tom Doctoroff Olympic advertising touched on specific Chinese sentiments, by using Chinese athletes’ parents to get their message out, writes the Wall Street Journal, quoting JWT‘s Tom Doctoroff: “The parents were shy,” says Tom Doctoroff, the north Asia chief executive of WPP Group‘s JWT, which made the Satine ad forRead More →
Paul French The production of Christmas presents is getting under heavy pressure because of the restrictions on visas for China, tells China-guru Paul French the Guardian. Because buyers, inspectors and others cannot enter China because of the restrictions, our presents might be late or very expensive. “With a lot ofRead More →