Category Archives: Danwei TV

Danwei TV Hard Hat Show:
Together with migrants?

This episode of the Hard Hat Show is about migrant workers in Beijing. It includes interviews and footage of an event at Beijing’s Jianwai Soho real esate development where an NGO called Hua Dan, together with UNESCO and the property … Continue reading →

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Together with migrants?

Danwei TV: Swedish sailing ships and porcelain in China

Last year, some of the best and rarest pieces of Qing porcelain from Swedish collections were transported back to China for an exhibition in the Forbidden City. Your correspondent produced a documentary film commissioned by Scandinavian Airlines about the porcelain … Continue reading →

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Sexy Beijing – Chinese people’s English names

Lost in Translation: Su Fei goes around Beijing asking Chinese people what their English names are, and why they need them.

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Sexy Beijing – a new Danwei TV show

Sexy Beijing is a new Danwei TV show about love, lust, youth culture and street life in China’s capital. This episode is about one girl’s search for a boyfriend on the mean streets of Beijing, featuring interviews with old timers … Continue reading →

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Danwei TV: African football champions of Beijing

Last year, the Danwei TV crew made a documentary film about Beijing’s African football team: African Boots of Beijing. We caught up with the team again this year to see how they were doing at the end of their season, … Continue reading →

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Danwei TV new show
Danwei Music: Beijing Band – Another Idea

Danwei Music is a new Danwei TV show that will feature reports and tunes from China’s contemporary music scene, from rock-n-roll to hip-hop and punk, classical music to jazz. In this segment, Wang Li, the guitarist and lead singer of … Continue reading →

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Danwei Music: Beijing Band – Another Idea

Hard Hat Show: Hong Huang Part II – Her Acting Debut

Meet media mogul Hong Huang (洪晃 ) in the second part of a two part interview. Hong talks about the Chinese beauty mystique, jealousy, feminism, bar-fights, and her acting debut in recently released feature film Perpetual Motion, which was directed … Continue reading →

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Danwei TV: Hong Huang – Media Mogul and Blogger

Hong Huang’s (洪晃) mother was Mao Zedong’s English teacher. She was sent to the U.S. for education as a teenager, and has returned to become one of the most influential entrepreneurs in Chinese print media. Now she has discovered the … Continue reading →

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Danwei TV Hard Hat Show
Dashanzi Festival 2006: Art, trash and kebabs

This episode is a tour of Beijing’s Dashanzi Art District (aka Factory 798) during its annual festival, including interviews with artists, festival organizers and visitors. The district was recently threatened with demolition, and the episode tells the story of how … Continue reading →

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Dashanzi Festival 2006: Art, trash and kebabs

Danwei TV: A Hong Kong Story with Roland Soong

This installment of the Hard Hat Show features Roland Soong of ESWN, guiding us on a short literary quest in Hong Kong. We are looking for real places that feature in Eileen Chang’s (张爱铃) novella Love in a Fallen City … Continue reading →

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