Category Archives: Trends and Buzz

51-year-old man starts sex change operations

Posted on 2005-07-01 by Jeremy Goldkorn

According to Sina.com, Zhang Li, a 51-year-old man from Liyang in Henan Province, has started a series of operations to change his sex, starting with a breast enlargement operation. The hospital doing the operations is not named in the article, … Continue reading →

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Record sales for Bentley in Beijing

Posted on 2005-06-30 by Mauro Marescialli

Today’s Beijing Times reports that on June 24th the fiftieth Bentley car has been sold in Beijing to the president of a local real estate company. Currently, the prestigious British manufacturer holds a 50% market share in the Capital for … Continue reading →

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Kids these days and their filthy language

Posted on 2005-06-29 by Joel Martinsen

The gender gap makes itself evident once again through the horror that greets dirty language and innuendo written by primary students in their autograph books. As the Inner Mongolia Morning Post reporter tells it, he unintentionally leafed through the autograph … Continue reading →

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Jay Chow: come to my concert, it’s for free!

Posted on 2005-06-29 by Mauro Marescialli

Jay Chow (周杰伦) is a Taiwanese mega popstar. Jay Chow will perform at Beijing’s Workers Stadium on the 9th of July. However, no tickets are sold for this concert. Weird? Damn right. In order to cover the high costs of … Continue reading →

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The drug war, caffeine, and bad flash

Posted on 2005-06-26 by Joel Martinsen

The 26th of June is International Anti-Drug Day, and 10,000 people took part in an anti-drug march in Beijing, according to Xinhua, who got the story from the AP wires. As one of a flurry of articles published in the … Continue reading →

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China Can: an official history Wikipedia?

Posted on 2005-06-25 by Joel Martinsen

The China Culture Research Society held a press conference on Wednesday to launch a new project – “The History of Chinese Civilization, Online Chronicle” – that is designed to be editable by any interested individual. The database, unfortunately named “China … Continue reading →

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Beijing Bestsellers: History, Lu Qin, and Magistrate Bao

Posted on 2005-06-24 by Joel Martinsen

This week Danwei adds a new feature: a list of the week’s bestselling books in Beijing. The list is taken from the Friday Book Review section in The Beijing News, which compiles its data from the city’s major online and … Continue reading →

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Automated Plagiarism

Posted on 2005-06-24 by Joel Martinsen

So you have a thousand-character essay due for class. You can’t be bothered to copy an obscure sample composition by hand, and as a matter of principle you aren’t going to write something original. What’s a junior-high student to do? … Continue reading →

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Guangdong opens Cultural Revolution files

Posted on 2005-06-22 by Joel Martinsen

On Tuesday, the provincial archives in Guangdong formally opened 127,031 historical files to the public. These files cover the time period between 1949 and 1974, and hence include a large number of documents from the Cultural Revolution. They represent 32% … Continue reading →

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Another sizzler in Beijing today: 39°C in the shade

Posted on 2005-06-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Northern China’s mid summer heat wave continues, with today’s temperature in the shade forecast to be 39°C or 102°F. Today’s Beijing Daily Messenger reports on its front page that city authorities are insisting that offices and other public buildings set … Continue reading →

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