Tag Archives: Guangdong

Guys and Sex Dolls – Scenes from the Guangzhou Sexpo

As millions returned to work after one of the most stressful holidays in years on Monday October 8, the Tenth Annual Guangzhou National Sex Culture Festival was finishing its last day. “Look at the time,” Professor Zhu Jiaming, one of the … Continue reading

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Wang Yang says its not the Party’s role to bestow happiness on the people

The Southern Metropolis Daily is a Guangdong-based newspaper with a big print circulation in its home province, and a wide national audience online. The front page headline today is: “At the Party Congress, Wangyang said we must let go of the false … Continue reading

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Wang Yang’s not lying low

The Chongqing press has stopped singing red and striking black, and former city boss Bo Xilai is unlikely to grace its newspaper front pages again. But Guangdong Party Secretary Wang Yang is not lying low. Bo’s state-led, neo-Maoist ‘Chongqing Model’ … Continue reading

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Beijing is China’s wealthiest town, according to Hurun

Beijing ranks on top of the list of mainland China’s provincial-level municipalities for having the highest number of the country’s richest people

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China blogger conference 2009

Danwei comrades attended the 2009 China Bloggers Conference in Lianzhou, eastern Guangdong where we interviewed prominent bloggers. Much of the talk was about the Great FireWall and Twitter.

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Corrupt officials have things

A Southern Metropolis Journalist journalist Zhang Jun makes a video at a primary school in Guangzhou at the beginning of the school year. He interviews one girl about what she’d like to be when she grows up. She replies that she’d like to be a corrupt official because they have a lot of things.

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Snags in China’s new ISBN distribution system

Guangdong Province didn’t get its new system up in time for GAPP’s change to a per-book licensing model, so publishers were stymied.

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An old gang war makes the front page

China Business View (华商报) reports on an series of gang-related photos from 2007.

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