Category Archives: Danwei Picks

Problems with slapdash translation

Posted on 2008-05-12 by Joel Martinsen

Translation and Guo Jingming; Sichuan earthquake; Wendi Deng and Zhang Ziyi; Beijing tops in toilets; ‘stroll’ arrests; being Chinese; the 14th DL; translation software from Google and Kingsoft; jumbo jets; workers released in Nigeria;

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Foreign tombs in Shanghai

Posted on 2008-05-09 by Joel Martinsen

Tombs of Song Qing Ling and others; Chang Ping on errors; Chinese abducted in Nigeria; Korean and Chinese hackers arrested; Ethnology conference cancelled; The Torch on Everest.

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Real estate doldrums for Beijing

Posted on 2008-05-07 by Joel Martinsen

Developers slow down land trades in Beijing; Tudo fined 50,000 RMB; Online map providers investigate for secrets violations; Tu Jingwei sacked for nipple visibility.

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Free speech from a former Publicity Department head

Posted on 2008-05-06 by Joel Martinsen

Zhong Peizhang on free speech; China gourmet; Paul French vs. Tom Doctoroff; moving to China; music in the Vatican; Barmé on the torch; Chinese firms bargain-hunting.

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Support the Olympics: kill splittists

Posted on 2008-05-05 by Joel Martinsen

QQ Huaxia has an Independence monster; a bus explodes in Shanghai; interviews with youth who aren’t angry; a museum of Tibetan history.

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CCTV broadcasts One World without the Super Girls

Posted on 2008-05-04 by Joel Martinsen

CCTV vs. Super Girls; student interviews DL, who has envoys in Beijing; HK media on the torch; historical and geographic perspectives on the boycotts; book reviews; sketchy underwear ads at Xinjiekou.

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A Shanghai baby talks about old China

Posted on 2008-04-30 by Joel Martinsen

Graham Earnshaw republishes old books on China; China’s PR crises; child labor; green Olympics; local officials vs. central government; overseas students speak; Han in Xinjiang.

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Author Bo Yang dies

Posted on 2008-04-29 by Joel Martinsen

Imagethief on Olympics stories; Han Han on patriotism; counterfeit goods in Kenya; identifying ‘the west’; a hidden plan for the DL? Bo Yang dies; John Cusack in Shanghai.

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Preserving traditional homes in Fujian

Posted on 2008-04-28 by Joel Martinsen

Hakka homes; the Haj and Uighur identity; Tibet flags on the mainland; discussions with the Dalai; mobile users up to 574 mil; Swedish TV channel loses Nobel; and a dreamy security officer.

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Back to the motherland!

Posted on 2008-04-25 by Joel Martinsen

Jiang Rong vs Howard Goldblatt; China Daily girly pics; France and China; retired PLA officer fights pollution; anti-sweatshop or anti-Olympics? Renounce your Canadian citizenship!

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