Category Archives: Internet

Why commemorate the Tangshan earthquake?

Posted on 2006-07-28 by Joel Martinsen

SF writer and Xinhua journalist Han Song asks how we know that the Tangshan Earthquake really happened.

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Daily roundup: Typhoons, taxis and MBA mistress management

Posted on 2006-07-26 by banyue

Illegal guns in Beijing Today sees the return of an old Danwei feature: summaries of news from Chinese newspapers and websites. Today’s Beijing News (新京报) leads with a story titled ‘Beijing: proposal to reduce or eliminate management fees for taxi … Continue reading →

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Spoken words fly away, written words remain

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

This is from Oneaday.org, a sister site of Danwei’s that publishes a Chinese saying or idiom, with translation, every week day: 口说无凭立字为据 kou3 shuo1 wu2 ping2 li4 zi4 wei2 ju4 Spoken words fly away, written words remain See this idiom … Continue reading →

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Two new e-magazines

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

New offerings from China Daily and Modern Media.

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China Dialogue: consumption in China

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

China Dialogue, the bilingual discussion website about Chinese environmental issues, has published an article about consumption and consumerism. The piece looks at how the growth of Western style consumerism is not sustainable: If by 2030 China and India alone were … Continue reading →

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Stopping people’s mouths

Posted on 2006-07-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Danwei’s sister website, One a day dot org publishes a Chinese idiom with English translation and pinyin every week day. Here’s a sample: 防民之口甚于防川fang2 min2 zhi1 kou3 shen4 yu2 fang2 chuan1 Stopping people’s mouths is more difficult than damming rivers … Continue reading →

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Rupert Murdoch and new media in China

Posted on 2006-07-21 by Jeremy Goldkorn

你好中国二点零 Danwei’s mentor Rupert Murdoch is talking about China again, and this time he’s on about new media. According to a report on the Australian website of The Advertiser (which Murdoch’s News Corporation owns): News Corporation now sees new media … Continue reading →

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China’s first police blog

Posted on 2006-07-21 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xinhua writes about a Chinese policeman who started a blog in 2006.

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Crazy Stone and piracy

Posted on 2006-07-21 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Shanghaiist has compiled a report on Crazy Stone (疯狂石头), the low budget Warner Bros. film that is both generating buzz and doing very well at the box office, despite its Sichuan dialect dialogue. Excerpt: Warner Bros. is taking an aggressive … Continue reading →

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China: 123 million Net users and counting

Posted on 2006-07-21 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The latest statisitics are out from government controlled CNNIC (China interNet Network Information Center 中国互联网信息中心): Number of Internet users in China: 123 million Computer Hosts: 54.5 million WWW Websites: 788,400 International Bandwidth: 214,175 Mbit/s 18-24 year olds make up 38.9% … Continue reading →

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