It looks like the word "Taikonaut" is gradually adopted even by the Chinese themselves.

From Mark Wade (Astronautix)

First, congratulations to Chen Lan for achieving immortality by coining the
term 'taikonaut'. Xinhua resolutely stuck to using the word 'astronaut' but
CCTV-9 used Taikonaut, and it was taken up by CNN and Sky News and the
German media. A permanent entry in the dictionaries of the world...

Some of the 'experts' unearthed by the media were rather dire. One fellow
was going on how Yang must be glad to have an ejection seat since the rocket
he was on blew up more often than not...

Of course Phil Clark and Charles Vick supplied accurate points of view, to
the extent possible with some of the inane questions put to them ("does
Shenzhou use the splash-down or bump-down method of landing?") Vick was
transformed by Sky into 'a NASA spokesman'.

A real treat were the many historical documentaries shown on CCTV-4 and
CCTV-9. Footage of early rockets, satellites, etc. I hadn't seen before.
Awesome film of the CZ-1 on the first satellite launch attempt (trying to
beat the Japanese into space) in 1969 with the CZ-1 coming back down
straight into the desert with a huge explosion. Hilarious account of 12
engineers boarding a bus to go to a department store to examine (not enough
money to buy) one of the first folding umbrellas in Beijing (as a model for
the deployable 'optical' skirt on DFH-1).

CNN International covered the whole thing fairly closely. Unfortunately
other majors (CNN USA, CBS, BBC, ARD, arte, etc) relegated it to very low
priority (not even mentioned in the headline stories).

It was like time stood still since 1969 in one way. Reporters on Sky, CNN,
etc immediately dragged out: " 'some' (the famous journalistic 'some'='I')
say that this is a terrible waste of money when so many people in China's
provinces are living in poverty". Oh well, I guess it's something they learn
in journalism school. All space projects are a waste of money that should be
going to the poor, all political scandals are another Watergate, all wars
are another Vietnam. I just can't figure out how reporters not even born
then can still be 'stuck in the sixties'.

On the basis of the rather thin coverage and lack of press interest, it can
be assumed that Chinese space feats will not spark popular outcry for a new
'space race' any time soon. Of course some reporters breathlessly informed
everyone that Chinese space technology had 'Pentagon circles very
worried'...

This was found in the Friends and Partners in SpaceBBS. I'm a member of the list, as well as Chen Lan, Mark Wade, James Oberg, Jim Harland, Charles P Vick, etc....all kinds of very knowledgeable space people. Raoul