The Guardian – August 18, 2007:
China has ordered its media to report only positive news and has imprisoned a pro-democracy dissident amid a clampdown on dissent ahead of the most important meeting of the communist party in five years.
In Beijing the municipal propaganda department has issued detailed instructions to editors on how they should cover the test of traffic-easing measures, which started today. During the four-day trial more than 1m cars have been ordered off the roads. Local newspapers and TV stations can only report on the improvements to the environment and transportation. Interviews with inconvenienced commuters or images of overcrowded buses are forbidden.
Most state media have also been banned from reporting on the collapse of a bridge in southern China which killed at least 41 people. Reporters said local officials punched them and chased them from the scene of Monday’s disaster.
“This crackdown is a legal gun to the head to responsible journalists who want to report on the basis of facts,” said Sophie Richardson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
#26 “I am still learning to work with them (or around them at times). I just want to do the best job for my company, but it is very difficult. My manager works out of Malaysia and is from China. I learned early on not to EVER disagree with her if anyone else is present.”
That is the truth!! The Boss is supreme: rule #1
And when the boss is wrong go back to rule #1!
One thing I discovered about Chinese is because of rule #1 the task is always more important than the result. So Chinese workers just do exactly what they were told to do and never once think about why they are doing it our what the result is of what they are doing.
Very frustrating!
Good Luck with your job!
Cheers