Category Archives: Danwei Picks

Touring China with the guqin

John Thompson on old guqin music; controling coverage of the earthquake; the race for gold medals; a non-looting episode; no more thin plastic bags; why not to learn Chinese.

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Out to buy soy sauce

Buying soy sauce; donations-gate; telecom reform; earthquake scavenging; traffic inflation; quake photos.

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Back patting needs to wait for a while

Hu Shuli evaluates the earthquake; Sichuan’s overtaxed hospitals; Chinese in Uganda; Woeser hacked; Red Cross scandal.

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Glasses-gate and other earthquake scandals

Posturing in the quake relief effort; a guide to handling disabled people; combatting pollution; flood evac.

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Photos from the Good Luck Games

The earthquake; Landslides; Soho Sanlitun; Jia Zhangke; Wen Jiabao; safe schools; Good Luck Games; missing pandas; the Red Cross; blood banks; an aftershock; visa problems.

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Google’s evidence of a moment of mourning

A momentary drop in Google searches; Sino-US matchup; death tolls; letters from Sichuan; Tudou off the blacklist; free press; Uighur forum shutdown.

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More thoughts on the quake

Raymond Zhou, Tim Johnson, and the New York Times on the earthquake.

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The English voice of an animated pangolin

Voicing the Gourd Brothers cartoon; nationalism and business; online youth trends; much more on the Sichuan earthquake; Chinese tourists to the USA.

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The state media’s performance on the earthquake story

CCTV, transparency, and blind protocol; Qian Gang on the earthquake; 60,000 missing.

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Guo Jingjing pregnant?

Guo Jingjing might be pregnant; a talk with the translator of The Kite Runner; and a whole lot about the Sichuan earthquake.

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