China’s media is booming creating opportunities for marketing-savvy businesses. But many companies have little understanding of how to harness the power of the media in the world’s most populous country.
The following are ten points to consider when embarking on a media relations strategy in the Chinese market and identifying with the Chinese media.
1. Understand cultural [...]

China is such a large country that it is impossible to see even a fraction of it in one visit. It is advisable to specialize in just one area, and get a good guided tour. Ten-day guided tours are available starting at approximately $1100.
For instance, the ancient civilization of mystical Tibet has always fascinated travellers. [...]

“Authoritarianism is noble. Individualism is selfish. Liberal democracy yields economic stagnation (or worse) and technocratic dictatorship produces sustained growth.”
Is this how mainland Chinese really feel?
Through the Looking Glass. Chinese values exist in a parallel universe, one in which our white is their black and their black our white. The United States and China can form [...]

Over 20 percent of the world’s population are Chinese, and by economic standards, China’s ascent is only just beginning. The Chinese nation, culture, economy, and language are going to get more and more important in the world during your lifetime.
But how much do you currently know about modern China?
What you learned at school about China, [...]

The Greening Of China
As the economy has grown, so have waste and pollution. But there’s big money in repairing the environment
By rights, the city of Xining ought to be a pretty nice place to live. A remote provincial capital of 2 million people, it’s perched 2,275 meters up, right on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet [...]

In the 1830s, Britain illegally exported opium to China in large quantities, bringing severe damage to China in political, economic social and other aspects. The Qing Government finally made a resolute decision to ban opium smoking and the opium trade in Guangdong.
In 1840, Britain launched an undeclared war on China. Cities and towns along Chinese [...]

he Qing Dynasty, which was founded by the Jurchen (Manchu) people, was the second ethnic group to rule the whole of China. It is also the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history. It was during this period that imperial China reached its zenith of power and influence.
The Jurchen people, believed to be the ancestors of [...]

The face of the new China is not the medical masks spawned by the SARS outbreak or the bubble-headed visor of the country’s first astronaut. Rather, it is the image of a lone young businessman howling in the middle of an empty highway, having just been hit in the head with a brick.
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This photograph, The [...]

What if the Ford “Way Forward” plan included an alliance with a Chinese auto manufacturer?
Certainly the players on the top floor of Ford’s Glass House will scoff publicly at the idea, talk about the blue oval as an American icon and suggest that digging a hole to China is more possible than such an alliance.
Perhaps. [...]