Author Archives: Jeremy Goldkorn

Cute little Japanese devils

A compilation of Japanese cartoons of “Riben Guizi” (Japanese devil), a Chinese insult that Japanese computer nerds are trying to turn “into a beautiful young girl” to let Chinese people full of hostility become fans of anime beautiful young girl.

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Chinese general gets shanzhai Peace Prize

Nobel shnobel! Former Chinese Defense Minister, General Chi Haotian has received the World Harmony Award.

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If you don’t serve the people, get out!

A Hangzhou TV show calls a Zhejiang government official to ask about citizen complaints about parking fees; unhapy with the official’s response, one of the guests shouts at him: “What kind of official are you? Resign! If you don’t serve the people, get out!”.

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What happened to the men who built China?

Daily Telegraph’s Malcolm Moore takes a look at China’s first generation of migrant workers transformed China, building its skyscrapers, manning its factories and digging its mines.

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Royalty fee for a Chinese tweet: 25 yuan

A royalty check of 25 yuan for a reprinted Chinese tweet.

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Harvest Season: Q&A with novelist Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor is the author of Harvest Season, his debut novel set in southwestern China and published earlier this year by Earnshaw Books. He recently answered Danwei’s questions about how he came to write his first work of fiction.

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Wild leopard cats of Beijing

A sighting of a rare leopard cat near Beijing.

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China the bogeyman

An American political ad by a group called Citizens Against Government Waste playing up the China threat. See also At last there’s proof: 44% of Americans are crazy by James Fallows.

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Plastered life in Beijing

An infomercial for Plastered T-shirts.

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Hu Shuli on China’s boom

Caixin editor Hu Shuli on the reasons for China’s boom, one of a series of interviews on the subject on a new website from the Asia Society.

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