Author Archives: Danwei

The David T. K. Wong Fellowship

The David T. K. Wong Fellowship is a unique and generous annual award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about the Far East to spend a year in the UK

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Toon omelettes

Kitchen Yo is a new online cooking show about food in China with the first episode featuring Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn as host.

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June 4 roundup

Links related to the 20th anniversary of 6-4.

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Hard Queen, Up from the Underground

The full cut of Luis A. Tapia’s documentary Up from the Underground, about Shanghainese band Hard Queen as it prepares to release its debut EP, “Holiday.”

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Eddie Cheng’s Standoff At Tiananmen

“I chose to tell the story from the perspective of the student collective who is indeed the main protagonist. I hope this approach could help to re-create the students’ experience and provide a proper background and atmosphere in their emotional state and decision-making process.”

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Mei Jianping on China’s economy

An interview with Mei Jianping, finance professor from Cheung Kong Business School talked about how China’s export market can be mitigated by growth in government spending and consumption, with domestic consumption the real key.

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China: Museums by Miriam Clifford, Cathy Giangrande and Antony White

Michael Rank writes about a new guide to China’s museums. The museums discussed range from archaeology to sex, tap water to the Cultural Revolution.

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Chinese-run supermarkets in Argentina

Nancy Liu, a health researcher, an NIH/Fogarty Scholar in Buenos Aires, writes about the supermarkets and Taiwanese where she is.

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Insatiable longings: a review of Wang Gang’s English

Josh Summers reviews the English translation of Wang Gang’s novel ‘English.’

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Junyao Group and the importance of the letter e

Why did Juneyao Group (钧瑶集团), an aviation and real estate outfit based in Shanghai, change its name from the original Junyao?

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