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The Cloud Computing China Congress (CCCC 2010), coming up on March 25, 2010 in Beijing, is specially designed for senior IT and line of business executives evaluating and making purchasing decisions in the areas of on-demand infrastructure and software services….

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Dr. Gino Yu from Playlab in Hong Kong does a short rap number he wrote twenty years ago in his college years. (about being Chinese and studying and working in the U.S.). It’s endearing and amusing at the same time.

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I finally finished reading The  Beijing of Possibilities, which literally showed up on my doorstep one day – no note. It’s a collection of dreamlike short stories out of the lives of Beijing’s residents, from crime-fighting, gorilla-costumed messengers to thieves, buskers and composers. The stories form an impression of Beijing on the eve of the [...]

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China is not about to collapse, democracy is not arriving in the forseeable future, censorship will continue, the CCP isn’t going away and it may still be in power generations from now.

Read this detailed and relatively balanced picture of why this is so. This may baffle and/or displease some of us, but it is reality [...]

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I’ve worked in PR in the US and China for quite a few years, and when a friend recently asked me what Chinese and American PR people can learn from one another, it got me thinking.
The approach of mainland Chinese companies to communications is quite different from that in the West. And I mean night [...]

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Most Westerners associate the Internet in China with two things, censorship and nationalism. The media here has given lots of space to stories about the “Great Firewall of China” and the phenomenon of angry young Chinese ranting on the Internet about Japan, Tibet and and what they perceive to be Western “imperialism.” While both of [...]

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A few updates from the folks at Think London. A topic which is currently hot in is clean tech. London’s Mayor Boris Johnson (one of THE TIME 100 Most Influential People) has declared he wants to make London the ‘electric…

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China’s new requirement says ‘all computers must contain censoring software.  Sky Schuyler writes about it in detail.
Reports the New York Times China will require pre-installed software on all new PCs that permits the government to proscribe sites that would be harmful to web surfers. If recent history is any guide, this means censoring sites [...]

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And I thought jumping on a bus in Romania in the early 90s was bad. Try China’s trains.

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Check out this very moving video of 21 Chinese deaf dancers from the China Disabled Peoples Performance Art Troupe, shown on German TV last year, now available for viewing on YouTube for the rest of the world to see. The…

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