Category Archives: Beijing

GAPP to clean up periodicals; Anti-Piracy Office shuts down a magazine

China New Observer (中国新观察) shut down by GAPP and the anti-pornography and anti-piracy office. Censorship, or punishment for scam running?

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Liu Qi on civic responsibility

Liu Qi (刘齐), a Beijing humorist, writes about the reticence of Chinese people to get involved in other people’s business.

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New York Times reveals identity of anus sign censor

The ‘most emailed’ story on the website of The New York Times is currently No Spitting on the Road to Olympic Glory, Beijing Says. The article refers to a billboard in Beijing that many native English speakers found rather charming, … Continue reading →

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Sexy Beijing – Sexy San Ba

March 8, or ‘san ba’ in Chinese is International Women’s Day, a holiday that is traditionally celebrated with much official support in China. But ‘san ba’ is also a rather insulting way to refer to a woman. In this episode … Continue reading →

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Beijing Macintosh User Group

‘Sod the iPhone‘ — the last post on Danwei about Apple computers — fluffed up some feathers in the sensitive Mac user demographic and also elicited sympathy for your correspondent’s Mac travails from other sufferers in the self-inflicted Jobs ghetto. … Continue reading →

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Parsing the Babel cuts

Two different news reports on the cuts to the mainland Chinese version of Babel.

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Beijing will allow provincials into the capital for the Olympics

According to Sina.com (in Chinese), the vice-secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee says outsiders will not be prevented from coming to Beijing during the Olympics

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Big numbers for a book signing

Yu Dan (于丹) signs 15,060 copies of Things I Learned from Zhuangzi (于丹《庄子》心得); Wang Xiaobo’s complete works have typos that no one will take responsibility for.

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The return of bike registration greeted with derision

China’s regulatory authorities announce plans to register all bike purchasers. People laugh dismissively.

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Blogger Wang Xiaofeng sticks it to the man

We discussed Beijing culture – or the lack of of it – swearing, idiots on the Internet, Northeastern Chinese jokes about sex, blogging, and the meretricious behavior of Sina.com.

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