Category Archives: Trends and Buzz

Vogue China launches

Posted on 2005-08-11 by Jeremy Goldkorn

No foreign media in China? Condé Nast is looking pretty in Shanghai, in partnership with the State Council, and begs to differ Vogue magazine’s China edition is on the streets, two weeks in advance of its September launch date. The … Continue reading →

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Meme alert! Time Magazine and the Cultural Revolution

Posted on 2005-08-10 by Jeremy Goldkorn

An open letter to Time magazine from Danwei reader Hu Yue: Dear Time Magazine, Symantec’s Norton Anti-Meme 2005 Software has detected the presence of the virus/meme CREALTAGOI in the article “Return of the Bourgeois Dogs” in your magazine. Please read … Continue reading →

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China clones a pig

Posted on 2005-08-09 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A lone clone piglet in Hebei Last week Friday scientists at the Chinese Agriculture University celebrated the birth of a piglet that was cloned from a body cell of an adult pig. The piglet was one of a brood of … Continue reading →

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Business in China 101: Baidu + Google = Baigoo

Posted on 2005-08-08 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Geddit? You’ve used Baidu and you’ve used Google, but have you used Baigoo? This search engine aggregator (whose, er, slightly familiar logo is pictured above) searches both Google and Baidu at the same time. Results are presented in a single, … Continue reading →

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Classic Danwei

Posted on 2005-08-07 by Danwei

Many articles on Danwei do not grow stale even as they scroll off the main page. In the two years Danwei has been in operation, the archives have amassed quite a number of posts whose information is still current and … Continue reading →

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Beijing Bestsellers: Angels and web fiction

Posted on 2005-08-06 by Joel Martinsen

Bestsellers from The Beijing News for week of July 30, 2005.

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English-literate, Internet savvy Chinese construction workers needed in Kabul

Posted on 2005-08-04 by Jeremy Goldkorn

ThisShanghai.com is a classified ad website whose name and logo seem to have been, er, inspired by That’s Shanghai. Some of their users appear to have the wrong idea about who reads English language websites in China, judging from this … Continue reading →

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Jack the Peeper busted!

Posted on 2005-08-02 by Mauro Marescialli

Jack the Peeper in action! UNBELIEVABLE in Beijing! Today’s Legal Mirror reports the following news: a man was caught peeping at a woman from the pit beneath a non-flush, ‘long drop’ public toilet! Here are the facts: yesterday at around … Continue reading →

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Hey Beijing laowai: get a free trip to scenic Shandong!

Posted on 2005-08-02 by Jeremy Goldkorn

If you are a person with a foreign face living in Beijing, the Shandong International Photographic Festival needs you to add some of that laowai flavor to their event. This is what you get if you agree to go: You … Continue reading →

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Banking, anal sex, cocaine and murder

Posted on 2005-08-02 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Expatriate life in Hong Kong If you have been living under a rock or reading too much of the South China Morning Post, you may not have heard of Nancy Kissel. She was married to a managing director at Merrill … Continue reading →

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