China China’s public diplomacy shifts focus: From building hardware to improving software October 24, 2013 0 Written by Ingrid d’Hooghe. China spends more money and effort on developing public diplomacy strategies and instruments than any other country in the world. The…
China China’s struggle with soft power October 22, 2013 0 Written by Gary Rawnsley. In 1990, Joseph Nye published Bound to Lead, which first introduced the term Soft Power to the vocabulary of international relations.…
Culture and Society Media War Over Shanghai July 22, 2013 2 Written by Peter Harmsen. For three months during the fall of 1937, hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Japanese soldiers clashed in a titanic battle…
Taiwan Taiwan’s Anti-Media Monopoly Movement: Achievements and the future May 2, 2013 0 Written by Chou Ya-Wei. The beginning of Taiwan’s anti-media monopoly youth movement dates back to July 31, 2012, when we started the first series of protests…
Taiwan Anti-Media Monopoly Policies in Taiwan March 25, 2013 1 By Ming-yeh Rawnsley. The student-led Anti-Media Monopoly Movement (反媒體壟斷運動) in Taiwan has garnered strong support within and outside the island since the second half of…
Taiwan Media Freedom in Taiwan: The Real Threat of Monopoly February 28, 2013 6 By Ketty W. Chen. During the past winter break, a group of university students traveled around Taiwan in the back of a small, old pickup…
China-Japan (Un)leashing Public Opinion: The State, Media, and Audience Demands during Anti-Japanese Protests in China February 20, 2013 0 By Danie Stockmann. Nationalism seems to be on the rise in China. Since the late 1990s nationalist protests have taken place almost annually. As evident…
