That's a fantastic article. It echoes something I heard from one of my students a couple weeks ago. She said that "westernization" shouldn't concern China. Instead, in a phrase she seemingly coined herself, the world should be thinking about "easternization"

I remember that post you did - it was in an Asia by Blog. You're right in that China's cultural influence works both ways.

Interesting article, but when we speak of cultural imperialism it means kids dancing to britney spears, people taking vacation in Korea, because they love Korean dramas or people shopping for manga porn.

Most of the people mentioned in the article are learnig chinese to do business with China, not to understand the poetry of Li Bai.

I don't see mainland china pop-culture taking up rest of asia like HK or even Taiwanese pop-culture any time soon.