Author: Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer

“You westerners take copyright issues far too serious. The web is not about intellectual property, it’s all about spreading ideas!” (A Chinese...

On December 23 I was witness (always painfully conspicuous as a foreigner) to the year-end meeting of Sohu’s featured bloggers. All the big chinese portal...

The Mindmeters website was founded in May 2003, originally as an online magazine providing space for contributions made to the Book Review supplement of the Eco...

Trying to come to grips with the all-important topic of Chinese portal brands and their strategies. I’m still crunching the available numbers and details,...

As an aside, when I recently mentioned my fledgling Chinese media research in a conversation with some german colleague, he immediately talked about the recent ...

Corporate media are on the rise. In a country like Germany, where established journalistic standards like thorough research and independence are felt to be unde...

China is considered by many to be the wild Wild West of Intellectual Property. Not necessarily so, when there are reasonable standards, it seems. Thanks to the ...

If I interpret this news correctly, Chinese portal provider Sina.com has registered 1.5 million entries as yet in its blogs related to Ang Lees movie “Lus...

I start this blog with an unspectacular pointer to the 3rd Annual Chinese Blogger Conference in Beijing. John Kennedy has an english language live blog from the...