Category Archives: Blogs

The Golden Island Bath House

Posted on 2007-02-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Here is a newish Chinese blog written in a very literary style, all about sex: A Big Kang. It’s hosted on the Soho Xiaobao blog provider, which is owned by Beijing’s SOHO real estate development company. Below is a rough … Continue reading →

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When is something newsworthy?

Posted on 2007-02-01 by Joel Martinsen

Wu Fei (吴非) writes about what is and isn’t newsworthy in China.

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Frustrated petitioning

Posted on 2007-01-24 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Time magazine China blog has an interesting entry by Susan Jakes about people who come to the magazine’s Beijing bureau seeking justice for wrongs they have suffered, usually at the hands of local provincial officials: The Time Magazine Office … Continue reading →

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Wang Shuo thought bomb

Posted on 2007-01-23 by banyue

Wang Shuo: ready to reload? Wang Shuo (王朔) is a popular Chinese novelist. He is known as something of a rebel, perhaps the closest thing China has to a counter-cultural icon. His works include novels, TV shows and movies. Most … Continue reading →

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Talking about Japan in the street: reaction to Antiwave video

Posted on 2007-01-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The post below this one is a Danwei TV interview with the guys behind the Antiwave podcast, Flypig and Ping Ke. Flypig posted the Youtube version of our video on his blog late last night, soon after we first released … Continue reading →

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Podcast Pioneers — Antiwave 反波

Posted on 2007-01-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

This episode of Danwei TV’s Hard Hat Show is an interview with Flypig and Ping Ke, the two Chinese bloggers who make the excellent Antiwave podcast. We talk about Antiwave’s birth and history and touch on several subjects, including media … Continue reading →

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China in headlines

Posted on 2007-01-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Below are some recent headlines from mainstream media and blogs. If you read a huge variety of English language media, you can get an idea of the complexity of China’s increasingly diverse society. Of course, most people in the West … Continue reading →