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Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu
Danwei interviews Jonathan Watts: “Copenhagen will shape our lives for years to come”
Danwei interviews The Guardian’s first Asia Environment Correspondent on Copenhagen, his new book out in June, and reporting the environment in Asia.
Posted in Foreign media on China
Tagged Copenhagen, Jonathan Watts, The Guardian
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Liliane Willens’ Stateless in Shanghai
Stateless in Shanghai is the true story of Dr. Liliane Willens’ experiences growing up as a “stateless person” in cosmopolitan Shanghai from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Willens was born to Russian Jewish parents, both denationalized by the Soviet Union after fleeing the Bolshevik revolution, hence her “stateless” status refers to her families inability to flee elsewhere
Posted in China Books
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New waste incineration technology: Parents and kids act to get rid of pollution
Today The Beijing News reported that parents in the Panyu district had received instructions that their children will be take part in a “performance,” acting out their support for the incineration project.
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged Lijiang Gardens, Panyu, primary school, waste incineration
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Duncan Hewitt’s Getting Rich First
Just released in the US as a paperback by Pegasus Books, with a new foreword, under the title China － Getting Rich First: A modern social history, the book draws on Hewitt’s experience as a student in China in the 1980s, and as a journalist in Beijing and Shanghai for the BBC and Newsweek since the 1990s.
Posted in China Books
Tagged cosplay, Duncan Hewitt, Getting Rich First, Newsweek
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Narrow Dwellings: a TV series that slipped through SARFT’s guidelines
The series has drawn a lot of criticism as well as recommendation. The former for its poor script and one dimensional characters, and the latter for its social commentary, which focuses on people of different social statuses, nailhouses, corrupt officials and mistresses, all wrapped up in the setting of a consumerist metropolis. There are edited versions of Narrow Dwellings on Youku and broadcast on TV, and lines that have been deleted for its “bone-baring” (露骨) directness.
Posted in TV
Tagged corruption, Narrow Dwellings, officials, SARFT, Sex, TV series
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VeryCD.com may be closed for not having a license
Today, one of the more popular music, film and TV series sharing sites, VeryCD.com, displayed “Network Timeout” and failed to connect. An article from the entertainment section of The Beijing News today ran an article about VeryCD and its application for a license to share content, the license is the “Information Network Broadcast Audio Visual Programming Permission Certificate” (信息网络传播视听节目许可证), which VeryCD does not have.
Yeeyan.com stops publishing and shuts off server
Yeeyan.com, a Chinese translation website that collaborated with The Guardian, has shut down their servers apparently due to the government’s regulations.
Posted in Net Nanny Follies
Tagged net nanny, server, The Guardian, translation, Yeeyan
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Lawrence L. Allen’s Chocolate Fortunes
Lawrence L. Allen, who for seven years was an executive with Hershey in China, and later Nestlé, has written Chocolate Fortunes, published by Amacom Books.
Posted in China Books
Tagged Amacom Books, Chocolate Fortunes, Lawrence L. Allen
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No computers allowed for the weekend
The top headline on today’s Morning Post (北京晨报) concerns neighborhood volunteer teams that are going to go around this weekend and “fine” people using their computers to go on the Internet. Their reasoning? Trying to promote the “moderate use of the Internet.” Journalist Dong Zheng (董正) reports. Also, a follow-up story on the 690 captured cats in Tianjin (天津).
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged Internet watch, Morning Post, neighborhood communities
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The highly educated chengguan might be no better than the neighborhood committee auntie
The Beijing Youth Daily reported that the Chengguan (the para-police force who are responsible for “cleaning” the streets in cities) in Hefei, Anhui province, are recruiting university-degree level employees. Yesterday the paper ran a letter-editorial from Anhui province about the move.
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged Beijing Youth Daily, chengguan, editorial, Hefei, The Beijing News
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