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An interesting blog post with photos of Chinese New Years celebrations from around the world. A little surprising some of the locations you will find there. Yet I suppose it's also not that surprising when you consider the size of the Chinese Diaspora

Nowadays, Chinese people are enjoying greater freedom of speech and access to Internet. Both external environment and domestic development contribute to this. As in the new nationalism that forbidden by authorized government, the changing web of Chinese nationalism is such a powerful tool that inspires people to observe and thought independently. It also creates online nationalism, which could be considered as a growing potential turbulence.

I agree what you talked about the online nationalism of Chinese as a growing potential turbulence. In fact, there are a lot of cases showing the trend of the ' growing potentail turbulence'. The debate between Chinese governement and the Melbourne Film Festival on the documentary of Rebiya Kadeer (The 10 Conditions of Love) has led to breakdown of Film Festival's offical site. People believed that the site has hacked by Chinese hacker. I believe that the Chinese nationalism is obviously leading to an online nationalism which may impact on both positive and negative sides.

the reasons behind social networking services failing in the Chinese market, are not only the language (Facebook has a Chinese version), but also the failure of realising the common desire of subgroup in the market..

As copycatting goes, China is King. It is an incisive criticism, which sharply points out the most significant existing problem in China in the copyright respect. This bug on policy and regulation corrupts Chinese creative thinking fundamentally.

It is sort of a comment on the counterterrorist issue which happened recently from a chief commissioner of VIC police. It expresses the hope from the police, that all the residence, including the members from descrimnated communties and the members may descrimnate against ones from other communities, should be responsible for the safty of the whole society rather than just the police are involved. To persuade all the residence feel positive about the prospect of social harmony and minimize the discrimination against some communities, this urgent appeal is a strategy from Victoria Police. As a matter of fact, I suppose that the main point of the author truly makes sense, and the argument makes me think a lot about some social problems in China. Social harmony is one of the slogans from Chinese government these years and I think, the sense of participation is significant for Chinese people, as well, to deal with the social problems. As the article's title said, inclusion is the key to social harmony.

even though Chinese government try the best to govern the mass media but sometimes it is hard to give the restriction on online information because of its fast speed of spread and a large amount of information.

Is it a propaganda or PR tool?

I think it can be said as a propaganda film because it draws a lot of Chinese to revisit the historical moment, then of cause, the stars in the film are doing a good job in drawing the audience in the first place lol~

Can China achieve its aims by acting in this way? Is closing dialogue with Australia as 'punishment' going to solve anything? And does China except us to take their political pressure to restrict constitutional rights such as freedom of speech (such as in the Kadeer case)? Just some thoughts.

QQ is China's largest instant messenger service; in 2008 it owned 86% of the market, with MSN owning 5%, and a bunch of others owning less. QQ dominates the market - but the money made seems not to be from its instant messenger; rather its leveraging and channeling that huge audience through a gauntlet of micro-payments.

The parade, in best old school communist tradition, is quite an interesting national display of power at this time. While it is predominantly aimed at the Chinese public (though not all, as access to the event was strictly controlled and limited) broadcast by national TV throughout the "Reich der Mitte" it is reinforcing the identity of a military super power, solid leadership and military state institutions, it also serves in a sense as a means of justification and proof for successful ideology to the ruling elite. And of course the display is aimed at the rest of the world, showing that China is a power to be reckoned with, not just economically but also in regards to it's military - just in case anyone has had any doubt. But is that a message the west needs to be reminded of? With the cold war over, and globalization making a path for cooperation and convergence of east and west in both in the economic and political arena, maybe the display is aimed at old friends eg. Russia and possible future "problems" (from a chinese point of view) such as Iran or N.Korea, who are working towards a stronger military recognition and/or are in strong competition with the market powers China has been able to built up eg: India, Japan.

Such an interesting news which reminds me the news between the Imperial Palace of China and starbucks. Please google 'Starbucks in the Forbidden City' if you want to know further. Someone argue that Starbucks in the Imperial Palace is not embodying Westernization or Globalization but eroding the Chinese traditional culture. The issue of Mcdonald in Louvre gives me a similar feeling although they are not exactly the same. Should we remain our own traditional culture without any modern symbol ?