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...sign of the growing popularity of the South Korean brands: Internet screen views of Kia products have increased 283% year over year, the largest of any mainstream brand, according to a study by AutoTrader.com. Views of Hyundai vehicles also increased substantially. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...
...Harvard-Yenching Library—the largest university library for East Asian research in the Western World—signed an agreement on Friday with the National Library of China to digitize Harvard’s entire 51,500-volume Chinese rare book collection over the next six years...
...just what are those values? In China, the press is still overseen by propaganda officials. Online discussion is managed by censors, and the country is one of the world's leading jailers of journalists and bloggers, according to the press-freedom group Reporters Without Borders. It is not those limitations on the media that China's propaganda ministers are trying to modernize. Rather, it's the ability of the political party to have its message heard. An August Qiu Shi article complained about the dominance of the global media by a small number of conglomerates like Murdoch's News Corp...
...while the party's role in Chinese state media wasn't trumpeted, it also wasn't missed by human-rights activists and press critics who attended the conference. While the summit was billed as a nongovernmental event, David Bandurski of Hong Kong University's China Media Project noted on the project's website that Li was formerly the deputy chief of the CCP's propaganda department. The summit, Bandurski wrote, is "a naked ploy by the CCP to enhance China's global influence over media agendas," and the foreign media representatives "an audience at court...
...Plays for access are an inevitable part of the media game. But with China's growing clout and economic status, foreign players take on greater risk to their professional integrity. Murdoch himself has been accused of dropping BBC News from Star TV satellite packages and axing a critical book by Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong. At a time when media are still reeling from the economic downturn and the Internet-led destruction of traditional advertising and subscription models, China has money to spend and offers new markets for foreign media. The risks are high. Not only...