Category Archives: Trends and Buzz

Tango at the Forbidden City and other blog videos

Camille Levert, the video maker featured on Danwei TV Choice Cuts several weeks ago, has posted a video of a marathon tango sesssion outside the Forbidden City in Beijing. The dancing is Beijing style, i.e. next to a busy street … Continue reading →

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Beijing Bestsellers: Celebrity authors, fantasy, and Wang Meng’s father

Overall bestsellers for April 28 – May 11, May 19-25, and May 26-June 1, 2006.

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If prostitutes could participate in TV talent shows

Wang Xiaofeng comments on Super girls and other TV shows.

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Chinese Internet stars and Mu Mu molls

CIC Data on Internet celebs.

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Steven Curtis Chapman talks about adopting Chinese children

Interview with Steven Curtis Chapman translated from The Bund magazine (外滩画报).

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Latest Super Girls rumors: resurrections and legal troubles

Rundown of the latest Super Girl rumors concerning Zhang Yafei, Li Na, and Li Weiwei. (超级女生, 张亚飞, 厉娜, 李薇薇)

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Beijing’s not going anywhere

News from The Economic Observer (经济观察报) says that Beijing’s planning department has confirmed that the city will not move its administration eastward for at least five years.

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Boom and bust for “Chinese Pizza”

The market for tujia shaobing, or “Chinese Pizza”, in Beijing is saturated and stores have begun to close. 2006.06.25

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Technorati and Edelman PR
to co-develop Asian language blog search tools

Richard Edelman: drinking the same Kool-Aid as Danwei Edelman is a huge, international, independent public relations firm. They say they are the largest in the world. The CEO and president Richard Edelman is a big believer in the power of … Continue reading →

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to co-develop Asian language blog search tools

Keith Richards nearly squashed in Shanghai

Keith unflattened Today Danwei welcomes a new contributor: Ichabod, a multi-talented old China hand who has to remain anonymous for professional reasons. He went to the recent Rolling Stones concert in Shanghai, and was amazed to find that one of … Continue reading →

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