Author Archives: Jeremy Goldkorn

Baıdu’s Robin Lı chickens out of speaking engagement

Baidu in hot water.

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Hydropower and Green Beat’s new style

Hydropower on the Nu River: A new rather serious sounding episode of online video series Green Beat, without the home-made rapping and Green Brothers shtick.

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Photos of Beijing in the 1930s and ’40s

Old photos of Beijing by Hedda Morrison and Dmitri Kessel.

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SARFT chills out?

An organization under media regulator SARFT has a funky favicon.

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Tom Carter: Portrait of a People

Tom Carter is a photographer who spent two years backpacking around China, taking photographs of people in every province. The result is a book called China: Portrait of a People, recently published by Blacksmith Books.

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Blueprints for a Beijing that never was

1950s designs for Beijing that were never made into reality.

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Bruce Lee plays ping pong with nunchucks

An ad for a Nokia phone featuring a digitally inserted Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchucks.

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Xinhua relents: Financial news sector open

China has formally opened its market to financial information providers.

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Miriam Makeba

For certain people, Danwei will break its editorial guidlines: Nothing to do with China, but the great South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba died on November 9 at the age of 76, a few days after performing a show in Italy. The video above is from a 1966 concert in Stockholm.

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The body in the lake

An extract from a novel by old China hand Chris Taylor.

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