Category Archives: Internet

That’s Beijing magazine, is putting its content back online, in blog format, complete with comments, trackbacks, XML feeds and categories. Here, for example, is Kaiser Kuo’s column from the March issue. Is this old media making a very smart move … Continue reading →

Some information about a new site from Roddy: NewsinChinese.com takes RSS Feeds from Chinese language news sources (currently Xinhua, but hopefully the range will expand in the future), annotates them with pinyin and English translations using the Adsotrans database, and … Continue reading →

Mutant Frog is a blog covering East Asia and many other topics. There’s a good post about the Shanghai Sex Museum, here. Found via Mutant Frog: have a look at another good blog called Coming Anarchy, by a pair of … Continue reading →

Cui Jian, about whose influence on Chinese rock-and-roll countless dissertations have been written, is set to release a new album at the end of the month. In the meantime, he has teamed up with noted Flash artist Lao Jiang to … Continue reading →

As regular Danwei readers will know, the government has been occupied of late with the Glorious Proletarian Struggle Against Online Pornography and alerting newspaper readers to the dangers of high-tech orifice peripherals. They seem, however, to have overlooked less futuristic … Continue reading →

Former Beijing resident Gerry Mak sent in this photo, which appears to show nude PETA demonstrators walking around Wangfujing in Beijing. If any reader knows anything about this photo, please tell us about it: jeremy @ danwei.org. Gerry Mak has … Continue reading →

A blog by an American who works in the PR business in Beijing: Image Thief. Here is a funny post about the way PR companies in China encourage journalists: It occurs to me that, despite having been a Beijing PR … Continue reading →

There is a tatty Hong Kong blog called NTSCMP.com, or Not The South China Morning Post — geddit? The person behind the blog is a fellow who refers to himself as “Dr. George Adams”. The blog describes itself thusly: “Founded … Continue reading →

The New York Times has published an article titled Chinese Censors and Web Users Match Wits by Shanghai-based correspondent Howard W. French. There are some interesting quotes in the piece: Qin Rui, deputy director of the Public Information and Internet … Continue reading →