Category Archives: Trends and Buzz

Qingdao festival of music, art and film

Posted on 2007-03-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Oil painting by Qingdao artist Da Mao Qingdao MAX is a new annual art and cultural event in Qingdao, organized by the people behind the city’s English-language magazine and website Red Star. The event is dedicated to “showing off some … Continue reading →

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And now, some madcap cartographic action

Posted on 2007-03-19 by Joel Martinsen

A map of the world overlaid with the Classic of Mountains and Seas (山海经, Shan Hai Jing), and another showing Korean world conquest.

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Beijing Macintosh User Group

Posted on 2007-03-19 by Jeremy Goldkorn

‘Sod the iPhone‘ — the last post on Danwei about Apple computers — fluffed up some feathers in the sensitive Mac user demographic and also elicited sympathy for your correspondent’s Mac travails from other sufferers in the self-inflicted Jobs ghetto. … Continue reading →

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Gay Shanghai

Posted on 2007-03-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Here’s a story by Megan Shank and Peijin Chen Ye Shanghai, Gay Shanghai. The piece is on Megan Shank’s blog, but was originally written for Newsweek Select, the bowdlerized edition of the magazine that is published in Hong Kong and … Continue reading →

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Did you plant a tree yesterday?

Posted on 2007-03-13 by Joel Martinsen

China’s tree-planting compliance rate stands at just 55%.

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No more “stupid guys” at Beijing’s Silk Market

Posted on 2007-03-13 by Dror Poleg

Beijing’s Silk Market had a streak of bad publicity in the foreign press for the last couple of years, after being sued by various international brands for intellectual property rights violations. Realizing that the counterfeit goods orgy might be nearing … Continue reading →

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Smoking and social stability

Posted on 2007-03-09 by Jeremy Goldkorn

NPC delegates consider the tough issues facing China – image from Do Not Associate China’s annual convening of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference is usually described as “the meeting of China’s parliament” in the … Continue reading →

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More Jewish Chinese news

Posted on 2007-03-09 by Jeremy Goldkorn

It’s been a record month for Jewish-Chinese stuff in the Western media: The New York Times: Journey From a Chinese Orphanage to a Jewish Rite of Passage The bat mitzvah of a Chinese girl who was adopted as a baby … Continue reading →

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Chinese rock in Fader

Posted on 2007-03-03 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The latest issue of New York based music magazine Fader contains a feature about rock music in Beijing, featuring some of the usual suspect Beijing bands like Re-TROS and PK14. The story is moodily illustrated with photos by Ariana Lindquist. … Continue reading →

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Remote control pigeon droids of Shandong

Posted on 2007-02-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

According to cnnb.com.cn, scientists in Shandong have successfully implanted a microchip and radio receiver in a pigeon’s brain, enabling them to instruct the pigeon by remote control to take off, fly in circles and obey other commands. The experimental droid … Continue reading →

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