Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu

Taobao drink party: strange anniversary date

Taobao UEC’s adverts for a party shows a date that coincides with something else.

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Sexual harassment defined for the first time in Beijing

The 11th session of the Standing Committee of the thirteenth National People’s Congress of Beijing this year had four main suggestions, one was drafting in Beijing the PRC Women’s Rights Protection Law.

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Hank Levine on the new US ambassador to China

Levine has worked in the China Affairs Office of the State Department, at the American Embassy in China, and as the Shanghai US Consul General. Danwei asks him about the new American Ambassador to China.

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Henry F. Pringle’s “Bridge House Survivor”

Pringle was imprisoned by Japanese forces from October 1942 to August 1945, and Bridge House Survivor, available from Earnshaw Books, is his harrowing account of torture under the Japanese.

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“Rebirth” in the news

Today’s black and white, and gray newspapers.

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One year after the quake: cadres, monks and numbers

Southern Weekly, China Newsweek, and The Beijing News write one year after the quake.

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Michael Pettis interviews Carsick Cars’ Zhang Shouwang

In the May issue of Esquire, Pettis asks Shouwang, whose name means “to keep watch”, ten questions about composing the a very famous song, rock music today compared to the ’80s, traveling and “new Chinese music”. Below Danwei republishes the full English interview with Pettis and Shouwang’s permission.

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Tibetan plateau in peril

The Asia Society’s China Green Project has a series of videos on the topic of melting glaciers and the environment of Tibet. One of the videos, above, talks about rivers and lakes that have started running lower, drier pastures, larger deserts, and more unpredictable weather patterns.

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Richard Burger on being a foreign editor at the Global Times

Burger answers questions about the foreign editor’s role, what his daily routine is, the openness of the Global Times and their latest center spread. .

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A year of commemorations, and their history

The China Heritage Project of the Australian National University has published a new issue of China Heritage Quarterly. This time the theme is “The Heritage of Commemoration”. In light of all the anniversaries this year.

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