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Danwei Music: Wu Fei’s Guzheng Experiment

This episode of Danwei Music is about experimental musician Wu Fei. She is a classically-trained musician who plays the guzheng, one of China’s most ancient string instruments. Wu is a Beijinger but now lives in the United States, where she … Continue reading →

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Slogans with Chinese characteristics

Slogan or poem? In China, you will see slogans every day and everywhere. Not only is this a tradition with a long history, it is a trend that has remained popular, particularly in the red and crazy 1950s – 1970s. … Continue reading →

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Hard Hat Show – Bringing it all back home

From Danwei TV, interviews with three Chinese 20 somethings who were born in Mainland China but went abroad at a young age, and who now are back in Beijing.

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Wang Xiaofeng’s Naked Chatting

Wang Xiaofeng (王小峰) hosted a face to face meeting to his fans yesterday in a bookstore in Dongcheng District, Beijing.

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Sexy Beijing – Sexy San Ba

March 8, or ‘san ba’ in Chinese is International Women’s Day, a holiday that is traditionally celebrated with much official support in China. But ‘san ba’ is also a rather insulting way to refer to a woman. In this episode … Continue reading →

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Choice Cuts-Beijing Jam

Danwei Choice Cuts brings you work from up and coming Chinese filmmakers and DV documentary producers. This time we present Beijing Jam, a short film by Lois Xiang about cars, traffic jams and road rage. It’s a visual essay that … Continue reading →

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Sweet secrets: a Reader’s Digest of Sex

Sexy psychology magazine.

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The mobile phone man

The very definition of the modern man According to statistics from China’s telecoms regulator MII (Ministry of Information Industry), there are over 426 million mobile phone users in China, the biggest user group in the whole world. The cover story … Continue reading →

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Wang Shuo thought bomb

Wang Shuo: ready to reload? Wang Shuo (王朔) is a popular Chinese novelist. He is known as something of a rebel, perhaps the closest thing China has to a counter-cultural icon. His works include novels, TV shows and movies. Most … Continue reading →

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Corruption, terrorism and Saddam

Graft and terrorism The headlines on today’s Beijing Youth Daily are two general press releases from Xinhua News Agency, which means most newspapers had to use these articles as their headline stories. Corruption clampdown The first is President Hu Jintao’s … Continue reading →

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