Category Archives: Trends and Buzz

For better government, read fewer books

For World Book and Copyright Day, Chinese science fiction author and journalist Han Song writes that Chinese officials need to read less.

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Shuimu Nianhua vs. Jars of Clay: you decide!

Shuimu Nianhua (水木年华) has a new song, “Forever Young,” whose most striking features are quite similar to Jars of Clay’s “Liquid”. Audio comparison included.

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Increase your Sina blog hitcount for pennies a day!

The “Sina Blog Hitcount Killer” (新浪博客计数器杀手) claims to be able to increase your Sina blog hitcount, for a minimal fee.

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Comments on Danwei

Danwei.org recently opened comments. It is gratifying that the comments received so far are mostly as we would prefer them: new information that adds to readers’ understanding and contributes facts. See for example the comments on the post China has … Continue reading →

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The Daily Telegraph: Danwei is “nerdy”

Richard Spencer, The Daily Telegraph’s Beijing correspodent pays Danwei a back-handed compliment on his blog: [Danwei.org is] a bit nerdy, designed by people working in media and advertising in Beijing mainly for, er, people working in media and advertising in … Continue reading →

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Beijing Bestsellers: Bloggers’ books and an inflated translation

Overall bestsellers for 06.03.31-06.04.6 and 06.04.07-03.04.13. Also commentary on bloggers writing books.

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Taking aim at a hardworking actress

Netease poll asking what manual labor jobs Cecilia Cheung could do for 13 hours a day.

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Boom! ESWN down.

The essential China blog ESWN is down, because its server’s bandwidth limitations have been exceeded. In other words, too many people are reading the website, and the server can’t handle the traffic. At last! The English reading world is interested … Continue reading →

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Rolling Stone: raped but still alive

Rolling Stonewalled Hao Fang (郝舫), the editor of China Rolling Stone, has put a scan of the cover of the second issue of the magazine on his blog. He titled the post Smells Like Rolling Stone Spirit, and subtitled it: … Continue reading →

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QQ fan Photoshops or QQ advertising?

The image reproduced here is from an interesting page on the Tianya forum that contains a bunch of Chinese and Western movie posters that have been Photoshopped — ‘PS’ in Chinese Net slang — to look like advertisements for QQ, … Continue reading →

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