Category Archives: From the Web

Danwei Picks: Johnnie To big in Europe

Posted on 2008-02-20 by Joel Martinsen

Citic and Bear Stearns; Johnnie To received warmly by European critics; Mia Farrow comments on Spielberg; two translators pass away.

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Danwei Picks: Non-profits face a new tax burden

Posted on 2008-02-19 by Joel Martinsen

25% tax on operating revenues at non-profits; subsidies for water conservation; Fei-fei dies; Olympic hostesses vs. dog shows; China to build railway in Libya.

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Danwei Picks: Getting to know your local leaders

Posted on 2008-02-18 by Joel Martinsen

Grey-market iPhones; Spielberg, Darfur, and the Olympics; a faked news photo of the year; and government leaders open up in Kunming.

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Danwei Picks: sympathy for the embezzler

Posted on 2008-02-15 by Joel Martinsen

Reactions to Yu Huafeng (喻华峰); Rupert Murdoch tilts at China; the Rio Tinto acquisition; taxi drivers on a hunger strike in Ningbo.

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Danwei Picks: Stephen Chow the migrant worker

Posted on 2008-02-14 by Joel Martinsen

CJ7 and class struggle; Catherine Sampson’s Chinese mysteries; Mao’s 10 million women; and branch campuses in China.

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Danwei Picks: more foreign film shenanigans

Posted on 2008-02-12 by Joel Martinsen

‘Shanghai’ blocked from filming; Suez tries to collect fees for its water utility; more on Edison Chen; Olympic architecture is awesome. And Taoist hell.

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