Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu

Houseboat days

Book excerpt: Houseboat Days by J.O.P. Bland, with an introduction by Paul French.

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China according to China

MovingCities introduce an online documentary in five parts, made by Diego Grass Puga of 0300TV, which profiles five leading Chinese architects on the topic of “China’s current situation and history.”

The online documentary is filmed by Diego Grass Puga of 0300TV, a site that specializes on “interviews, news, articles, videocast” about architecture. The video segments are listed under the titles “What is exactly happening here?” “Speed,” “Agrilculture,” “Education” and “Architecture: 2008, China.”

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China Dirt comes back after hiatus

The girls at China Dirt have announced that they are back with more “stories of atrocious male expat behavior” after nearly a year’s break.

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China’s used metal market crisis

Channel 4’s video about the fight over Chinese metal scrap, which is turning violent due to the slowing economy.

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Cankao Xiaoxi hoaxed by spoof migrant banker story

Reference News messes up its acronyms and reprints an article from the wrong German source.

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Free WiFi for Beijing’s urban and rural areas by 2011

Plans for WiFi Beijing 2011: wireless Internet will be available across the capital in three years.

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Beijing hoop dreams

A video portrait of basketball players in Beijing by Dan Chung, multimedia editor at The Guardian‘s Beijing Bureau.

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