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  Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia China -
China or Zhongguo (中國) is an ancient cultural and geographic entity in continental East Asia with some offshore islands which is currently divided between the People's Republic of China (governing Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau) and the Republic of China (governing Taiwan and several outlying Fujianese islands).
China was one of the earliest centers of human civilization, and became a large united country with an advanced culture at a very early stage, outpacing the rest of the world in areas like art and science.
In the east, along the shores of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea are found extensive and densely populated alluvial plains; the shore of the South China Sea is more mountainous and southern China is dominated by hill country and lower mountain ranges.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ch/China   (1336 words)

  
 Media in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
China's rapid economic development, as well as educational advances leading to greater literacy, have been important reasons for the dramatic expansion of the Chinese media and the diversification of coverage.
Although difficult to quantify, growing skepticism toward authority in China appears to be spurring public support for media criticism (often indirect and carefully couched) of the State and slowly diluting the legitimacy of the party.
Although the trend in China clearly is toward greater media autonomy and diversity and away from government control and intimidation, crosscurrents of resistance persist.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/media_in_china   (4992 words)

  
 Learn more about China in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
China (Traditional Chinese: 中國, Simplified Chinese: 中国, Pinyin: Zhōnggúo) is an ancient cultural and geographic entity in continental East Asia with some offshore islands which since 1949 has been divided between the People's Republic of China (governing Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau) and the Republic of China (governing Taiwan and several outlying Fujianese islands).
The historical capitals of China were mostly in the east.
The Chinese characters have had many variants and styles throughout the history of China, and was "simplified" in mid-20th century in mainland China.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/ch/china.html   (1555 words)

  
 Media in China
China will see an increase in so-called ‘Rich lists’ as the longest standing list of Rupert Hoogewerf will reappear on October 30 as a co-publication with the British Euromoney, while Forbes – his original host – is expected to come with its edition only weeks later when it wants to start publishing in Chinese.
The Xinhua report, quoting the China Family Planning Association, does not say with whom people are having sex, but both anecdotic evidence and the report suggest they mostly have premarital sex with the partner they are going to marry anyway.
Chinese media were an extension of the government, mostly the local government, who was not only eager to avoid public interest, but even more eager to avoid the interest of the central government for their failures.
mediainchina.blogspot.com /2003_10_01_mediainchina_archive.html   (4366 words)

  
 MediaChannel.org - NEWS DISSECTOR | The U.S. Media And China
China bashers are having a field day with this one, but let's recognize that China may have some legitimate interests at stake here, and that no one will benefit from a new Cold--or, G.W.B. and Jiang forbid--Hot War.
More recently, Rupert linked himself to China in a more personal way, dumping Anna, his wife of many years, to marry Wendy Deng, who hails from the mainland and had climbed to corporate heights in his Hong Kong operation before "merging" with the boss (who is 30 years her senior).
Sadly, other media outlets that are emulating this collusion are just as guilty as Murdoch's in pulling their punches, especially in giving the Falun Gong issue the sustained coverage it merits.
www.mediachannel.org /views/dissector/prostitutes.shtml   (2450 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - China - The Media | Chinese Information Resource
Since 1978 the media had been one focus of the CCP's efforts to modernize key sectors of Chinese society, and it operated on the premise that more responsible and factual reporting would help to narrow the distance between the elite and the masses.
Before 1978 the CCP used the mass media as a tool to "serve the interest of proletarian politics" or the party's "class struggle" and "mass line." Having these priorities, the party was concerned neither with openness nor accuracy.
By 1984 China reported having "radio and television universities" in 326 cities and 1,168 counties throughout 28 provinces, autonomous regions, and special municipalities, making the use of television an important aspect of higher education in China (see Education Policy, ch.
reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/china/china299.html   (1548 words)

  
 The World Today - Heavy media restrictions in China
Media freedoms continue to be heavily restricted in China and they're the sort of restrictions that other countries would never dare to try.
China Correspondent Tom O'Byrne who's been detained, assaulted and followed by Chinese security forces for simply doing his job assesses whether the talk about a rapidly changing China is anything more than just talk.
China says their media control rules are nobody else's business.
www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s689403.htm   (669 words)

  
 China General Information, China Information
China View, Sep. 30, 2005 - The United States and China failed to reach a comprehensive textile agreement in a third round of talks this week but will resume negotiations in October, U.S. trade officials said on Thursday.
China Internet Information Center, Sep. 11, 2005 - China suffers an annual loss of tens of billions of US dollars in its exports trade due to product standards imposed by developed countries, according to discussions at a seminar in Beijing on the World Trade Organization's (WTO) 2005 World Trade Report.
The Bohai Sea is the inland sea of China.
www.chinatoday.com   (754 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Monitoring | Media reports | China's 'war on terror'
China's aim was to win international support for its own crackdown and it has been able to claim some US backing for its policy in Xinjiang.
The state media continues to blame outsiders for Xinjiang's troubles, while calling for tougher measures against separatism, religious extremism and terrorism.
China has accused ETIM of links with al-Qaeda and of seeking to establish an independent state of East Turkestan in Xinjiang.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/not_in_website/syndication/monitoring/media_reports/2241025.stm   (697 words)

  
 Media in China
According to HR in China those questions cannot be asked in a country like China, even more, you cannot conduct any opinion poll in a country where the government is molding the opinion of its citizens.
Now even the official media use the incident as a good way to discuss the values of this society, maybe in a slightly moralizing way, but giving the persons involved to make their own choices.
Not so much time to look at the media in China, but our Muzimei is getting better coverage, also that to Andrea from Living in China.
mediainchina.blogspot.com /2003_11_01_mediainchina_archive.html   (1240 words)

  
 Mots Pluriels Alan R. Kluver
All media types have their own unique technological and cultural characteristics that make them useful and appropriate for certain kinds of interaction, but not for others.
Although users in China, particularly savvy ones, are able to skirt government control over their surfing habits, the ability of the government to track illicit visits to Taiwanese web sites, for example, has increased by leaps and bounds.
China Daily web site to understand the Chinese perspective, and a miniscule number had the Chinese language skills to access the hundreds of other web sites where they might have seen other perspectives.
www.arts.uwa.edu.au /MotsPluriels/MP1801ak.html   (4422 words)

  
 IT-Director.com: Media liberalisation in China: will it imp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In China the media has been and is firmly controlled by the organs of the State and Communist Party.
As such the media should be commercialised taking the financial burden of operation and administration away from the State.
Foreign media may have made a few inroads into China but this is confined both in the content of what may be provided and as to who may access it.
www.it-director.com /article.php?articleid=11751   (598 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Internet loosening media control in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
NEW YORK — China's government has long controlled the information its citizens receive through official media, but that may end as the Internet burrows deeper into the fast-changing communist country, a Chinese Internet expert says.
China has about 68 million Internet users among its 1.3 billion people, according to figures provided in July by the China Internet Network Information Center.
China has closed more than 3,300 Internet cafes in what it calls a safety crackdown since a fire in June 2002 at a Beijing cafe killed 25 people.
www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2003-11-21-china-net-filters_x.htm   (931 words)

  
 Family Planning Media in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In late 1981 I was appointed as Media Specialist to a United Nations Project concerned with the promotion and publicity of the Family Planning Project which had as its slogan, "One child is best".
I was based in Beijing and worked at the National Centre located in a park through the entranceway to the Forbidden City.
It's my interpretation of the way China's family planning policy and publicity were carried out.
www-personal.edfac.usyd.edu.au /staff/goodwinb/China.html   (453 words)

  
 Media in China
I'm moving my new weblog "China Herald" to a new host at www.chinaherald.net, that is - unlike the blogspot host - also available in China.
Rumors from China suggest that both the Google cache and the domains of weblogs produced by Google's www.blogger.com (those with 'blogspot' in their url) have been unblocked.
China is a country of poets, you can see from the headline only, and as all poets they can use their phantasy, reality is only disturbing for a poet.
mediainchina.blogspot.com   (1623 words)

  
 BBC News | MEDIA REPORTS | China's lion gift to Kabul
China is giving two lion cubs to Afghanistan to take the place of Marjan - the lion of Kabul - who died in January after surviving years of bloody civil war.
The TV showed Afghanistan's representative in China, Abdul Basir Hotak, slipping his hands through the bars of the lion enclosure to stroke Zhuangzhuang's mane.
Links to more Media reports stories are at the foot of the page.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/monitoring/media_reports/newsid_1894000/1894189.stm   (501 words)

  
 Asia Times -Media in China: The door slams shut
BEIJING - A brief period of relative openness in the tightly controlled state media in China has been put on hold as the Communist Party braces for an upcoming speech by party chief Hu Jintao, where he is expected to push for much delayed political reforms.
Reporting on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China - the country where the disease is thought to have originated and is the worst affected by it - has pushed the limits of taboo topics.
According to the New York-based CPJ, China is the world's leading jailer of journalists, and is currently holding 38 journalists in prison.
www.atimes.com /atimes/China/EF24Ad01.html   (1126 words)

  
 China First Media Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
China First Media Service GmbH is the answer to a rising interest in the Chinese market, that no longer is a production location for European companies, but increasingly becoming an export market.
China First Media Service launched in 2004 during the WirtschaftsWoche German-Chinese Business Congress in Berlin to present themselves to a wider public - and to cater for the needs of SMEs.
China First Media Service GmbH is well-networked with partners in China and has direct contacts with many Chinese media.
www.chinafirstmedia.com   (172 words)

  
 Comprehensive Rankings of Private Media Firms in China Released
The opening of the Chinese media to foreign investment, in the wake of the Sixteenth National Congress of the CPC and a series of policy reforms, has created intense interest in international finance markets in the current state, and future development prospects of privately held firms in the media sector in China.
At the same time, the media market in China is complex with financial markets unclear of the true 'landscape' in the sector.
Media magazine selected thirteen privately run media corporations with assets valued at more than RMB100 million for analysis and comparison against the following five indices: total assets, net assets, revenue, net profit and visibility (brand awareness).
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-18-2005/0003030165&EDATE=   (1401 words)

  
 Xinhua PR Newswire - The Voice of Chinese Business
The Company is one of the first digital TV operators in China to deploy the trial of IP based STB with its high-end users.
To be added to China Digital Media's investor e-mail list, please send e-mail to our Investors Relations at ir@chinadigimedia.com.
Arcotect (Guangzhou) Technology Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDGT in China, is the sole contractor and operator of digital television services in Nanhai, a city with 400,000 cable television subscribers.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=908496&TICK=XPRN&STORY=/www/story/10-18-2005/0004171356&EDATE=Oct+18,+2005   (438 words)

  
 Media Marketing In China: Airspace Turnover Exceeds All Expectations.
Beijing, China - 25 February, 2002 (PRN):Beijing Airspace Broadcasting Marketing Service Co. Ltd., a radio advertisement agency, is the first sino-foreign JV in China to get involved in the professional marketing of advertising time as an agency.
Li Kai, Marketing Director at Pepsi, Beijing states: "The life-style oriented, educated audience of BMR is one of the reasons that Pepsi chose to work with BMR and the Pepsi radio-show that has been enthusiastically achieved for three years now, has proven to increase the brand-awareness".
Veeh, an expert in media marketing, already manifested his competence during his former position at the German Handelsblatt publishing house by increasing a turnover of 725 million DM eight times.
www.pressreleasenetwork.com /pr-2002/feb/mainpr1073.htm   (444 words)

  
 TV programs in China, media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For TV-drama addicts in China, the year 2002 might be somewhat disappointing.
At show's end, the final digit of each player's score will be strung together to form a seven-digit "lucky number." Viewers who can match all or part of it with a personal number — a home phone number, an official ID, a utility bill, even a car license plate — will collect up to $500.
At first sight, it is quite similar to "Discovery," an American TV series popular among Chinese intellectuals since it was introduced to China in the late 1990s.
www.websitesaboutchina.com /main/medi/media_1.htm   (845 words)

  
 China Media and Advertising: Danwei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Donald Rumsfeld is in China, and Xinhua has published a report about the visit, illustrated with the photo on the left showing Rumsfeld doing something odd to his nose.
The return module of China's second manned spacecraft Shenzhou VI has come back to Earth, and the astronauts are safe.
A big reason is that recent news about media in China has been either brutal or dull.
www.danwei.org   (3306 words)

  
 Central News Agency (Taiwan): The Courts and Media in China Are Accomplices in the Persecution of Falun Gong
Central News Agency (Taiwan): The Courts and Media in China Are Accomplices in the Persecution of Falun Gong
According to a CNA report on September 19, 2002, Zhang Qingxi, Director and Spokesman of the Taiwan Falun Dafa Association, stated that the courts and the media in China have been used as accomplices in persecuting Falun Gong.
The media and the courts in China have become accomplices of Jiang's government in the persecution of Falun Gong.
www.pureawakening.net /pa/article/2002/9/30/12217.html   (387 words)

  
 China Briefs
Foreign retailers that violate the rules will not be permitted to open new stores or to enter into joint ventures with Chinese partners unless they change their behavior to be in line with the new guidelines.
Minister of Labor and Social Security says it will take China two or three years to resolve problems related to workers laid off from state-owned enterprises in China.
China’s State Intellectual Property Office has filed an application at the Ministry of Finance for permission to implement this information platform project.
www.sinopolis.com   (620 words)

  
 South China Post
China National Petroleum Corp, a state- owned oil producer, will meet with Russia's state firm Gazprom next month to discuss proposals for Russia to export natural gas to China.
CHINA'S defence chief accused the US yesterday of exaggerating China's annual military budget by about $US60 billion ($80 billion).
SHANGHAI, China - Germany's Volkswagen AG plans to introduce up to 12 new models in China by 2009 while cutting costs and improving service in hopes of regaining its erod...
southchinapost.com   (602 words)

  
 Quantitative Study Uncovers US Media Blackout: China Youth Daily
Quantitative study into US media covering America's use of depleted uranium bomb reveals that news flout by mainstream media on certain issues bearing on America's own national interests has been proved an indisputable fact and this has even been implemented to a most rigid extent.
A cold fact is that the mainstream media of Western countries, especially the US, relying on their huge property and other resources, take in hand the power of "setting news subjects".
Quantitative study on US media covering depleted uranium bombs could prove that news flout by mainstream media on certain issues involving America's own national interests has become an indisputable fact, which has even enforced to an astonishing extent of great rigidity, this is Ms Wu's conclusion.
english.peopledaily.com.cn /200208/28/eng20020828_102232.shtml   (1202 words)

  
 Call for Papers on Media in China
The transformation of Chinese society over the last quarter of century, particularly in the last decade, has been accompanied by a legitimation of the importance of the market in economic and social life within context of the existing political system, along with a gradual integration into the global economy.
This has had a huge impact on the mass media in China.
The rise of market-orientated media has made the field, which originated from an old command model and was monopolized by Party organs, more diversified and competitive.
www.wmin.ac.uk /mad/page-979   (334 words)

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