Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu

1910s Chinese nudes and 1800s Formosa farmers

Thomas H. Hahn has published a series of historical China photographs on Zenfolio, a photo-hosting site.

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It only matters what the machine thinks: getting diagnosed in a Chinese hospital

On July 20 The Beijing News printed a reader comment about the kind of medical service they received when they paid a visit to the ophthalmologist.

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The riot was much more serious than the one in Tibet last year: reporting from Xinjiang

Bruce, Lui Ping Kuen, is Hong Kong Cable TV’s China correspondent and was on the scene at the early July ethnic clash in Xinjiang. Danwei asks him about the reaction of Hong Kong media as well as other views.

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Poorly Made in China by Paul Midler

Poorly Made in China is the title of recently published book about China’s export manufacturing sector.

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97 former residences of the famous demolished in Beijing

Yesterday’s The Beijing News ran something on the former residences of famous people in the old parts of Beijing and their state now.

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Doing our best to choose articles and reports based on facts: Yeeyan and translation

Jiamin is the founder of Yeeyan. Danwei interviews him below about work with The Guardian, publishing books and the facts of translation.

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Ethnic integration policies and the Han costume

Rose Luqiu Luwei recently wrote a blog about Hong Kong’s new policy to prevent racism within its multi-ethnic community of Southeast Asians and Indians. Leung Man-tao, blogger, book writer and well-known host of Phoenix TV, wrote for Southern Weekend in April 2008 on the issue of race in China.

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The botany professor who wants to give Deng Yujiao a degree

In yesterday’s Southern Metropolis Daily, blogger Xifeng wrote in to respond to the news that Fu Dezhi (傅德志) professor at the Chinese Academy of Science, and famous for championing that the “South China tiger” was fake, has declared that: “I am definitely taking in this [Deng Yujiao] graduate student!”

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Twitter is blocked

In another act of net nanny folly Twitter.com has been blocked on the Chinese mainland.

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Jasper Becker’s City of Heavenly Tranquility

Many foreigners who lived in old Beijing and succumbed to its charms became more Chinese than the Chinese, preferring a fantasy China to the real one. Danwei publishes an extract from Jasper Becker’s new book on Beijing: City of Heavenly Tranquility (Penguin and OUP) describing an enduring phenomenon.

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