Category Archives: Events

Danwei Plenary Session registration closed

Posted on 2007-11-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Registration has closed for Danwei’s First Plenary Session this coming Thursday evening. There may still be a few places left for the evening’s events if you show up on the day, but unfortunately we cannot guarantee admission to this intimate … Continue reading →

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Danwei 4th anniversary T-shirt give-away

Posted on 2007-10-24 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Danwei in its youth Danwei.org is four years old today. Our first post was published at 7:07pm Beijing time on October 24, 2003. It was about Chiang Kaishek’s famous wife, Song Meiling, who died on October 24, 2003 in New … Continue reading →

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Chinese blogger conference 2007

Posted on 2007-10-08 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Registration has opened for the Chinese bloggers conference 2007. The first conference was held in Shanghai in 2006, last year’s was in Hangzhou. The conference naturally has a blog which is being updated as the event schedule falls into place. … Continue reading →

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Cory Doctorow at the Beijing Bookworm tonight

Posted on 2007-09-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Tonight at 7:30pm at the Beijing Bookworm: a speech by science-ficiton writer and Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow. Doctorow has published three science fiction novels which he also gives away for free as Internet downloads (see his website Craphound to … Continue reading →

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Diving expedition to ancient Mongolian lake

Posted on 2007-08-02 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Steven Schwankert is the founder of Beijing diving school SinoScuba. From August 9 to 23 this year, he will lead the first-ever diving expedition to Lake Khovsgol, an ancient body of water in Mongolia that contains two percent of the … Continue reading →

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Borderline moving images festival

Posted on 2007-06-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Borderline is a 9 day long festival of moving images and visual arts held in Beijing. Now in its second year, the festival features video screenings and video art, lectures, a mobile moving image lab, and live music in venues … Continue reading →

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English language theater in Beijing

Posted on 2007-06-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

I Heart Beijing, an predominantly English-language play by Elyse Ribbons, returns to Beijing in mid-June, 2007.

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Danwei Quickie: NOFX in Beijing

Posted on 2007-04-13 by Placeholder

NOFX is a seminal American punk band. Their music has been influencing the Chinese punk scene since it first started over ten years ago. This is a quickie look at the pre-concert press conference before their very first show in … Continue reading →

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Qingdao festival of music, art and film

Posted on 2007-03-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Oil painting by Qingdao artist Da Mao Qingdao MAX is a new annual art and cultural event in Qingdao, organized by the people behind the city’s English-language magazine and website Red Star. The event is dedicated to “showing off some … Continue reading →

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Did you plant a tree yesterday?

Posted on 2007-03-13 by Joel Martinsen

China’s tree-planting compliance rate stands at just 55%.

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