Category Archives: From the Web

Danwei Picks: clean attitudes in the mainstream media

Xinhua cleans up a Monitor article; Eliminating officialese; TV shows and mainstream attitudes; Hu Jia, Zeng Jinyan, and international PR.

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Danwei Picks: Globalization through scholarship

Ji Xianlin and the Tocharian language (吐火罗语); deaths in Olympic construction; Olympic boxer Zou Shunli (邹顺利)

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Danwei Picks: Filming contemporary Chinese society

Donations for the Shanxi brick kiln families; new drinking songs; Rupert Murdoch in China; and a documentary about classroom democracy.

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Danwei Picks: another sort of PX protest

MLB to come to China; PX workers protest the plant move; Gan Xiao’er’s religious film-making.

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Danwei Picks: Profile of a successful literary website

Taco Bell leaves Shanghai; Paper Republic profiles Heilan, an online literary magazine; marriage and morality; Bank of China denies sub-prime problems.

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Danwei Picks: China, Africa, and the western press

Pambazuka News on how Sino-African relations are reported in the west; radio from wartime Shanghai, and new adventures in advertising from Focus Media.

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Danwei Picks: Anhui’s most grateful citizen

Air China vs. China Eastern Airlines; Beijing Newspeak bids Xinhua goodbye; an Anhui peasant is a familiar face in gov’t propaganda, and a look at a younger Hu Jia.

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Danwei Picks: 2008-01-21

NIMBY politics, Ai Weiwei grumbles about the Olympics, a documentary on Hu Jia, and Liang Qichao on social darwinism.

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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-18

Nick Mulvenney on a BOCOG press conference; magazine covers, and an airplane crash.

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Danwei Picks: 2008-01-17

Liao Yiwu (廖亦武) in the Paris Review; Danone Asia head resigns; fortune cookie origin found in Japan; guide for online censors.

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