Category Archives: Recently on Danwei

Blogger Wang Xiaofeng sticks it to the man

We discussed Beijing culture – or the lack of of it – swearing, idiots on the Internet, Northeastern Chinese jokes about sex, blogging, and the meretricious behavior of Sina.com.

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帽牌老外vs三表 (中文版本)
采访王小峰的视频和音频

Chinese version of Wang Xiaofeng interview. 笔者和王小峰聊了一下午,录了将近一个小时,剪辑成10分钟的视频。你也可以听全采访的音频纪录.

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China Businesscast: interview with James McGregor

McGregor on Xinhua: “We should have driven a stake through their heart ten years ago.” In 2005 James McGregor released his book One Billion Customers, Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China. The book became a best … Continue reading

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Podcast Pioneers — Antiwave 反波

This episode of Danwei TV’s Hard Hat Show is an interview with Flypig and Ping Ke, the two Chinese bloggers who make the excellent Antiwave podcast. We talk about Antiwave’s birth and history and touch on several subjects, including media … Continue reading

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Wang Shuo spars with a reporter

Zhang Yiyi (张一一) accuses Wang Shuo (王朔) of long-term drug use, leading a Mirror reporter to spar with Wang over SMS.

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Don’t call it self-publishing: print on demand hits the net in China

POD books are illegal in China, say regulators.

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Mobile Business in China – podcast

If you are like me, you have sat in restaurants and bars nursing your drink in awkward silence wishing you knew enough to join in the conversation about things called 3G and TD-SCDMA. If so, then you be pleased about … Continue reading

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The Chinese Writers’ Association: what good is it?

Tie Ning becomes president of the Chinese Writers’ Association. Is it nothing more than a useless political organization, as Wang Lixiong alleges?

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Will the Boat Sink the Water?
a review by Göran Leijonhufvud

Göran Leijonhufvud, former China correspondent of several Scandinavian newspapers, is now researching village elections in minority nationalities areas in Yunnan.

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a review by Göran Leijonhufvud

The paradox of registering bloggers’ real names
by Wang Xiaofeng

Wang Xiaofeng on a proposed blogger ID verification system: I don’t believe that you can eliminate the sentence ‘fuck your mother’ for even half a year unless China devotes huge, huge resources to controlling such people.

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by Wang Xiaofeng