Category Archives: Internet

Leading Chinese blog platform BlogChina.com has acquired competitor Blogdriver.com. There is an Interfax story in English about the deal here, and one in Chinese on Sina.com here.

“Dr George Adams” of Not The South China Morning Post responds to an earlier Danwei post calling his site “essentially a badly designed blog” and casting doubt on the words of praise for him at the top of his webpage: … Continue reading →

Xinhua: Nearly 85 percent of reporters in Beijing feel tired, according to a survey quoted Monday in the Mirror. Out of the 1,182 reporters surveyed by the China Medical Doctor Association, only 28 were completely healthy, 2.37 percent of the … Continue reading →

… to visit state-owned news agency Xinhua. So does Gong Li. UPDATE: Britney Spears too. UPDATE 2: Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston join the Xinhua babe club too. UPDATE 3: Zhang Mi wants you to visit the website of the … Continue reading →

Huawei, Lenovo, Haier, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC), and TCL: The Economist reviews some of the stars of Chinese capitalism and finds them wanting, concluding that “China has so far failed to build world-class companies.” The article is here. Note: … Continue reading →

The New York Times published an essay by Francis Fukuyama called ‘Re-envisioning Asia’. Fukuyama was the guy who predicted the ‘end of history’ during the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, when there didn’t seem to be anyone … Continue reading →

A reader’s letter to Danwei: I am shocked, consternated even, by your complete lack of Pinyin Disciplinary Spirit! Xu Fan (F-A-N, not FANG) is the beautiful actress featured in that very useful advertisement reminding us that love of home and … Continue reading →

Hong Kong blogger Simonworld hosted an ‘Asian Blog Awards’ poll. The results are here. It’s a good reference if you’re looking for Asia-related blogs in English. Meanwhile a website calling itself Not The South China Morning Post or NTSCMP has … Continue reading →

There is a series of pictures doing the Beijing office worker email circuit. They were sent to Danwei.org captioned “Descendants of Mao Zedong and Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)”. This is Mao Xinyu, grandson of the Great Helmsman. This is Mao … Continue reading →

Popular blogging platform Typepad seems to have been removed from the Celestial Nanny’s blocking list. This means that sites with typepad.com and blogs.com URLs are once again available without a proxy server. Gee thanks Nanny, now let’s work on the … Continue reading →