Danwei.org is four years old today.
Our first post was published at 7:07pm Beijing time on October 24, 2003. It was about Chiang Kaishek’s famous wife, Song Meiling, who died on October 24, 2003 in New York at the age of 105.
To celebrate Danwei’s four years of publishing, we are giving away four T-shirts from Plastered.
Plastered has been has been producing and selling T-shirt from their hutong store in Beijing since 2005. The T-shirts feature lively interpretations of old Beijing designs, from subway tickets and thermos flasks to to propaganda posters and whack-shack barber poles, and come in a rage of fitted styles for men, women and kids.
To win a T-shirt, you have to leave a comment to this post, explaining why Beijing does not have a First Ring Road. The Danwei Central Committee will go through the answers and decide which one is worth winning based a number of criteria — the funniest, the most historically accurate, or the quirkiest etc.
You do not need to leave your real name in the comments, but you do need to leave a working email address in the correct field. It won’t be published, but we need it to get hold of you if you win. We will announce the winners on Monday afternoon; the submission deadline is noon on Monday.
Fine print: Anyone anywhere in the world is welcome to apply, but you will have to go to the Plastered store in Beijing to choose and get your T-shirt.
As this is an unscientifically-judged competition, we will publish all entries as they are submitted.
UPDATE: This competition is now closed, winners will be announced today, Monday October 29