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Gremlins have been in the Danwei mail server: if you have sent any email to a Danwei email address in the last two weeks, please send it again because we may not have seen it, or it may have been … Continue reading →

6th floor, two-level apartment in newly-built community housing. Ideal for two people to share. Location: Haiyuncang, inside 2nd Ring Road, north side of Dongsi Shitiao. Available immediately. – Downstairs: two rooms , kitchen, bathroom with shower, entrance room (ting>), fridge … Continue reading →

A new Danwei feature: short, regular website reviews. ‘Website’ means anything from Xinhua’s homepage to a blog, but the latter will feature prominently. There are so many of them; the good ones are informative and easy to read. Even the … Continue reading →

Some scenes from Beijing: The construction site of Fortune Plaza (caifu zhongxin) just inside the East Third Ring Raod, north of the Kerry Centre and China World complexes. The empty lot behind the construction site is where Rem Koolhaas’ CCTV … Continue reading →

A Beijing design firm is offering a part-time / project-based job for someone who is familiar with blogs and blogging software. The ideal candidate lives in Beijing and knows his or her way around Moveable Type and Word Press, and … Continue reading →

This photograph shows a sign inside a Beijing branch of the Bank of China.

If you have a lot of money, work for an important multinational company, or enjoy filling out forms, you can apply for a Green Card that will give you long term residential status in the People’s Republic of China. Xinhua … Continue reading →

From the China Daily: A once-thriving Jewish culture in the city’s Tilanqiao area is to be revived on the site of its former heyday. Almost 30,000 Jewish refugees settled in the area, around the northern Bund, during World War II, … Continue reading →