Category Archives: Internet

A few years ago, Internet users trying to access Google.com from mainland China were redirected to a government approved search engine, usually powered by one of the local universities or by a state-owned company. These days, Google’s international services are … Continue reading →

We have often criticized the way Chairman Mao has become the be-all and end-all of all China-related journalism, and the way every desperate hack relates every possible change and every potential disaster to a ruthless Hunanese heresiarch who died nearly … Continue reading →

Your devoted Danwei team wanted to bring you a wrap up of last month’s top Google searches in the Chinese market. These are published monthly in Google’s International Zeitgeist. For some reason, the latest international zeitgeist does not include any … Continue reading →

Today’s Beijing Times features an article with the headline ‘Porn Sites Invade the Mobile Phone Web’. According to the article every WAP enabled mobile phone can have access to several sites with explicit pornographic content. The authorities are inviting mobile … Continue reading →

It is clear that nothing excites reporters as much as a good prostitute story, especially one that manages to provide equal measures of titillation and indignation. Of course, it is usually the role of Western hacks to interpret the blossoming … Continue reading →

Blogger ESWN has published an essay called ‘Hinano Mizuki: The Case for Internet Censoring in China’. Funnily enough, the article seems to be filtered by the Nanny: the bottom half of the article does not load when trying to view … Continue reading →

Via Wanbro, an old article from the “No Shit, Really?” section of the People’s Daily reports that “Esperanto’s spread in China faces challenges.” Apparently, there were roughly 400,000 Chinese speakers of the artificial language during the 1980s; that number shrank … Continue reading →

The websites of state-owned lads mag and news agency Xinhua are always worth a visit, and not only for the girlie pics. Xinhua publishes a vast amount of news, opinion and propaganda on a daily basis, and there is always … Continue reading →

Inspired by an earlier Danwei post, here is a translation of a Chinese IT professional’s thoughts on Microsoft and censorship: It was an average weekend day that became one of the most unsual in my whole life. On that day, … Continue reading →

In China talking openly about sex and sex practices may embarrass a few people and raise some eyebrows; but writing about it in magazine columns, websites and online forums doesn’t embarass anybody. And as long as the content is labelled … Continue reading →