Author Archives: Jeremy Goldkorn

Han Han on Google leaving China – deleted post

Young adult fiction author, blogger, race car driver and current flavor of the month for American journalists and bloggers who cover China recently posted a rather acerbic post that included a section on Google leaving China.

The post was deleted from his Sina blog, but copied on to another Sina blog which is still available in Google’s cache.

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Love in Beijing for African women

Sexy Beijing‘s Su Fei interviews Zimbabwean Vimbayi Kajese, a news presenter on CCTV 9, about the dating scene for African women in Beijing.

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Julien Gaudfroy and Chinese comedy

An interview with Julien Gaudfroy, a young French man who is making a name for himself as a performer of cross talk (相声), a traditional type of Chinese stand-up comedy. Interview by Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn, video by Janek Zdzarski for See China.

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Bye bye Google

At 3am Beijing time this morning, Google announced the end of Google.cn: the search engine will cease censoring Google.cn, and redirect search traffic to their Hong Kong website at Google.com.hk.

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Global Times, China World, South Beauty and Zhang Ziyi

Scandal sheet The Global Times recently offended and delighted different groups of people in Beijing with an advice column by the pseudonymous Alessandro, who answered a question from a “reader” named S. Natch: “If unused for a long time, can … Continue reading →

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Shanghai Expo: A significant event or cash up in smoke?

Shanghai Expo 2010 a.k.a. The World’s Fair: a significant event or just a big waste of cash

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Taxi vs Taxi

Two films about Beijing taxi drivers have some remarkable similarities.

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Bankrupt schools and their fleeing foreign bosses

Why are so many foreigners fleeing China in the wake of language school bankruptcies?

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Call for participants televised debates about China

BON TV is launching a debate show and calling for particpants.

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A dance and a secret women’s script

A video by Janek Zdzarski for See China HerStory (or Nüshu 女书 in Chinese) is the name of a contemporary dance inspired by the secret women’s writing system, choreographed by Helen Lai, recently performaned at at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing.

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