Category Archives: Internet

Hung daddy type: Craigslist arrives in Shanghai

Posted on 2005-06-06 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Craiglist.org, the free community classified website that started in San Francisco, has started a Shanghai site. It didn’t take long for the personals section to get going. Take for, example, the ad titled ‘masculine hung daddie type visiting looking for … Continue reading →

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China to ban human organ trade

Posted on 2005-06-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The photo on the left shows a mother and two sons bearing signs offering to sell their kidneys, because they need money to pay for the father’s medical expenses after an accident. It was emailed to Danwei, apparently taken from … Continue reading →

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Foreigners and self-censored blogging in China: where is the line in the sand?

Posted on 2005-06-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Imagethief is blog that describes itself as the ‘Confessions of an American Spin Doctor in Beijing’. A commenter on Imagthief asked the blogger these questions: Do you think much about where the “line in the sand” is for you personally? … Continue reading →

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Sinhua celebrates a fine spring day

Posted on 2005-06-04 by Jeremy Goldkorn

State-owned news agency Xinhua today published an article titled ‘Josie Maran, exquisite beauty of Maybelline’. This is the article: Josie Maran was on the list of askmen.com’s Top 99 Most Desirable Women in 2002. This chestnut haired exquisite beauty has … Continue reading →

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James Bond parking machine invented in Sichuan

Posted on 2005-06-04 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Engineers at Sichuan University in Chengdu have applied for a patent for a device that they should call the Clean Green Parking Machine, but which they have named ‘Green Belt Subsiding Freestanding Rise and Fall Garage’ or ‘Green Invisible Garage’ … Continue reading →

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Arresting development

Posted on 2005-06-04 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Why this night of all nights? The New York Times: Case Against a Times Researcher Goes to Chinese Prosecutors Channel NewsAsia: Chinese scholar defends Beijing’s arrest of journalist ESWN: Grand Unification of Theories about the case of Ching Cheong Let’s … Continue reading →

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Nostalgia

Posted on 2005-06-03 by Running Dog

Thanks to some unforeseen error, the contents of the defunct Shanghai Eye are still available. The satire includes a look at CCTV 14 and a number of Shanghai bar reviews. No one is quite sure how long it will remain…

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Poll Disconnect

Posted on 2005-06-03 by Joel Martinsen

The debate continues over rescinding Beijing’s fireworks ban. The latest suggestion is for the city government to completely lift the ban and let individual communities sort things out. Danwei previously noted an online survey showing a 50% response against lifting … Continue reading →

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Tall poppy syndrome in China: Sun Mingming is not a blockhead

Posted on 2005-06-03 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Australians often say that their society suffers from ‘tall poppy syndrome’; in other words, success is treated as something that should be cut down to size rather than admired or emulated. ‘Sun Mingming is not a blockhead’, an article in … Continue reading →

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Female blogger publishes nude pics, BBS noise ensues

Posted on 2005-06-03 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Yesterday Baidu’s second fastest climbing search term was liumang yan zhaopian (流氓燕 照片) or ‘Hooligan Swallow photos’. That’s ‘swallow’ as in bird. Liumang Yan is the Internet name of a middle-aged female blogger who has recently been compared to Muzi … Continue reading →

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