Author Archives: Danwei

Understanding The Playground

Elyse Ribbons reviews The Playground, an avant-garde play.

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Another wild leopard in Beijing?

In Beigou village, sheep and goats are mysteriously injured or killed.

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An exploding cell phone, or a zip gun misfire?

A Guangdong man’s cell phone reportedly exploded in an electronics store, cutting an artery in his neck. Now witnesses say it wasn’t his phone: it was an improvised firearm.

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The Internets are full of human meat users

The first ‘human flesh search’ court case and an infelicitous understanding of the word in the IHT.

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In Shaanxi’s ad industry, there’s a new cowboy in town

The Economic Observer reports on a former journalist who now slings fancy copy in the service of PR for New Development Zones.

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May the Milk Wars commence!

Ads and PR for beleaguered milk companies Yili, Bright and Mengniu.

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Zhang Lijia: Socialism is Great!

Zhang Lijia is an author and journalist who spent most of the 1980s as a worker in a missile factory in Nanjing.

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Leftover women

A review of 剩女郎, aka ‘Pride and Prejudice 2008.’

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Beijing rock–Asia Society at the Olympics

The Asia Society on Beijing rock music.

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Olympic Model Worker updates

More good blogs that were left off the Model Workers list.

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