Author Archives: Jeremy Goldkorn

Amnesty, RSF, BBC Chinese web pages unblocked

And the sun has come out and the sky is blue in Beijing.

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Very superstitious

A Sexy Beijing show about the ‘ben ming nian‘, every 12 years when a person’s Chinese zodiac sign rolls around.

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Ne’er the twain shall meet

Chris Wip and his girlfriend on East and West.

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The Beijing Olympics: Are they a trap?

The Onion reports on the danger of the Beijing Olympics.

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China Media Timeline, an excerpt

What follows is a two-year excerpt from Danwei’s timeline of media and visual culture in China since 1978.

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Korean TV crew sneak into Bird’s Nest

A Korean TV crew sneak filmed rehearsals for the Olympic opening ceremony.

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253 million Internet users and counting

39.2% of Chinese online go to Internet cafés CNNIC is a state-owned organization that put out official figures about China’s Internet. CNNIC counter-intuitively stands for China Internet Network Information Center, and is pronounced ‘cynic’, which is what you should be … Continue reading →

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Stock market Olympic lock down

The Olympics, and some problems with China’s stock markets.

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Working China

A video about people working in China.

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iWait

A video by Flypig, who went to the opening of China’s first proper Apple store, complete with “Genius Bar” etc. A lot of strange people seem to have a lot of patience for the computer and phone brand that has previously treated its customers in China like unwanted annoyances.

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