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Category Archives: Trends and Buzz
Is Steve Ballmer the Deng Xiaoping of Microsoft?
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called on the phantom of Mao Zedong while trying to convince the Wall Street Journal that the Redmond giant will flourish without Bill Gates at the helm: “There have been many companies who lost their greatness … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign media on China, Media and Advertising, Trends and Buzz
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Why commemorate the Tangshan earthquake?
SF writer and Xinhua journalist Han Song asks how we know that the Tangshan Earthquake really happened.
Posted in Disaster Relief, Internet, Trends and Buzz
Tagged @altcat, @classic, conspiracy, disasters, Han Song, Tangshan
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P.K.14 silent movie music video
P.K.14 is a Beijing-based art punk band that was originally formed in Nanjing in 1997. They moved to Beijing in 2002. This year they were nominated for ‘Best Rock Band’ and, suprisingly, ‘Best Band’ at the upcoming 6th annual Chinese … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Trends and Buzz
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Beijing’s toilet travails and a foreskin poem
The framed advertisement to the left has appeared above urinals in public toilets around Beijing. It promotes the services of the Dongda Hospital for Anus and Intestinal Diseases and contains a poem. The poem is about misshapen foreskins.
Posted in 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Advertising and Marketing, Humor, Media and Advertising, Trends and Buzz
Tagged circumcision, Dongda, hospitals, poetry, translation
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Disappearing Beijing
Dazhalan (pronounced da shi lan’r in Beijing) is an area just southwest of Tiananmen Square. Since the Ming Dynasty, it has housed shops, inns and hotels, theaters, and brothels.
Posted in Architecture, Beijing, Trends and Buzz
Tagged Dazhalan, Ou Ning
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Disappearing Shanghai
Shu Haolun is a documentary fimmaker from Shanghai. His family has an old house in Da Zhongli, one of Shanghai’s oldest neighborhoods. The family has lived there for three generations. When he heard the news that the neighborhood faced “urban … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Shanghai, Trends and Buzz
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Stopping people’s mouths
Danwei’s sister website, One a day dot org publishes a Chinese idiom with English translation and pinyin every week day. Here’s a sample: 防民之口甚于防川fang2 min2 zhi1 kou3 shen4 yu2 fang2 chuan1 Stopping people’s mouths is more difficult than damming rivers … Continue reading
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China’s first police blog
Xinhua writes about a Chinese policeman who started a blog in 2006.
Posted in Internet, Trends and Buzz
Tagged blogs, police, Xinhua
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Danwei TV: Swedish sailing ships and porcelain in China
Last year, some of the best and rarest pieces of Qing porcelain from Swedish collections were transported back to China for an exhibition in the Forbidden City. Your correspondent produced a documentary film commissioned by Scandinavian Airlines about the porcelain … Continue reading
Posted in Breaking News, China and foreign relations, Danwei TV, Film, Trends and Buzz
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Controversy over Chinese textbook revisions
Translation of a forum rant against a new Chinese history textbook. some responses to that rant, and a Phoenix Weekly article on China’s new historicism in the form of a new Shanghai history textbook.
Posted in Books, China and foreign relations, Media regulation, Scholarship and education, Trends and Buzz
Tagged history, Phoenix Weekly, revisionism, Shanghai, textbooks, Zhou Chunsheng
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