With the Chinese stock market affecting the international markets, a new series of articles sprang up in all the business newspapers. The new Chinese superpower and economical promise turned into a "concern" overnight with new experts explaining the problems in China that everybody likes to ignore. Some of those articles are hilarious, some outrageous, but [...]
Danwei announced that this month has been “a record month for Jewish-Chinese stuff in the Western media” mentioning a few interesting stories :
Journey From a Chinese Orphanage to a Jewish Rite of Passage (The New York Times)
Three weeks ago, she stood at the altar of her synagogue on the Upper West Side and gave a speech [...]
Background
The student response to the Internet crackdown by the Chinese government was a small example of the power of the Internet in forming a new type of Chinese citizens that respond to both local and nation wide events, using the Internet as a medium to carry out their message. In the following chapters, I’ll [...]
Background
The issue of Internet censorship has been on the international Internet agenda for a few years as part of a more general discussion on the topic of media and citizen control on freedom of speech in the People’s Republic of China.
The Internet poses unique challenges for the Chinese Government, due to the extremely high volume [...]
Definition
A Netizen[i] is an abbreviation for “Internet citizen” given to people who are highly involved with online communities, sometimes also referred to as a “cyberspace citizen”. Netizens are believed by some to be distinguishable from other Internet users in that they focus on using the Internet as a social tool to engage in various social [...]
With the growing presence of Israeli companies in China and Taiwan it’s pretty hard to keep track. The China sector is a bit easier, since the there are websites out there to help Israeli businesses grow in China, and so most of the vital information can be found there. For an updated list of Israeli [...]
The Israeli Ministry of Industry Trade and Labor has an interesting website on the business relations between Israel and China.
Israel’s Trade Mission to China is a professional unit of the Foreign Trade Administration in the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, which was established in order to promote, enhance and facilitate the economic [...]
Here is a quick roundup of great blog and media articles I read today regarding China and Israel.
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Haaretz has an interesting story about "Harbin’s Jews: Isle of calm for embattled nation"
At the end of January, a group of Israeli journalists arrived at the sub-provincial city of Harbin, capital of the Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China. [...] [...]
