Category Archives: Trends and Buzz

ill communication: China Mobile seeks copy editor **Urgent **

The following paragraph is taken from the about section of China Mobile’s English web site: Construction of the Three Civilization: New progresses were achieved in the development of corporate culture and fruitful results were seen on the spiritual civilization front, … Continue reading →

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Will you be lucky next year?

Hong Kong 2007 calendar makes it to mainland newsstands. China sells gold pigs.

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Beijing: women have more fun, men cook less

A few weeks ago, Sohu.com published a story called Life Changes in Beijing in the last 20 Years: Women Begin to Have Time to Have Fun and Men Are Further Away from Kitchen. Danwei reader Zhang Xiaomin sent in the … Continue reading →

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Morality, history, and freedom of expression, as seen on TV

Culture wars: Yi Zhongtian (易中天) PK Cheng Junyi (成君忆) over morality and history.

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Guoxue and online exhibitionism

Bai Luming, descendant of Bai Juyi, seduces confucius.

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China Businesscast: The Future of Chinese Media

Earnshaw talks about running a lifestyle magazine in China and believes the death of magazines is imminent. The Chinese expression 从无到有(cong2wu2dao4you3), to emerge from nothingness, would be a fair way to describe how traditional and new forms of Chinese media … Continue reading →

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Chinese medicine strikes back at critics

Ma Youdu from the China Association of Chinese Medicine wants to teach Chinese medicine in schools.

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China’s first official gay student group

Guangdong’s Sun Yat Sen University (中山大学) has become China’s first univeristy to officially recognize a gay student group. Known as ‘Happy Together’ in English, the groups Chinese name is Rainbow Group.

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Harmonious weirdness

Ouch Despite the Net Nanny’s best efforts to ensure a harmonious environment, China’s Internet is getting weirder all the time. The image to the left is from Muzi Mei’s ‘blog salon’ and shows some youngsters being hung up from hooks … Continue reading →

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Kun Opera in China and America

Scholar Xu Ben writes about Kun Opera in Suzhou and at Berkeley – is this a living form of drama, or a specimen of something nearly extinct?

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