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Tag Archives: culture
Energy-based cultural transmission
Batteries decorated with traditional Chinese cultural elements.
Posted in Oil, Energy and Resources
Tagged batteries, culture, energy, soft power
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People’s Daily endorses a new meme
给力 has been used all over the Chinese internet, as a saying that could be literally translated as “giving power” but has more meaning along the lines of 带劲, which means “interesting” or “has force.”
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged culture, Intel, Jiangsu, meme, People's Daily
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Interview with Zhou Lingfei, whose father’s father is Lu Xun
Jeremy of Danwei.org had a chat with famous Chinese writer Lu Xun’s grandson Zhou Lingfei.
Posted in Featured Video
Tagged culture, history, interview, literature, Lu Xun, video, Zhou Lingfei
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Barbecue with Yu Hua in a Hangzhou park
Luminaries of the cultural economy meet at a new park in Hangzhou.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged culture, Metropolis Express, Yu Hua, Zhu Deyong
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Creative business in China: stop the recession blues
Danwei’s Third Plenary Session: Creative business in China.
Screw the elderly, I’m keeping my bus seat
Yangtse Evening Post (扬子晚报): Should younger people give up their bus seats for the elderly?
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged culture, Internet, traditional culture, Yangtse Evening Post
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An Indian perspective on China: Pallavi Aiyar
Both China and India are experimenting with economic reforms although the pace and scope of these reforms differs. One of the greatest lacunae in India is administrative reform, so that we have a bloated administration that is not held to account for its shoddy implementation of legislation intended to help the poor. In China on the other hand, it’s the lack of political reform that hampers accountability.
Posted in China Books
Tagged Beijing, book, culture, economic policy, India, interviews, Pallavi Aiyar
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Bomb, Book and Compass book review
We just ploughed through Simon Winchester’s new ‘Bomb, Book and Compass – Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China’ – boy, do we want our money back!
Posted in Books, China Books, Guest Contributor
Tagged book, culture, innovation
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Bound feet in China
Yesterday your correspondent received an email with the below photographs attached: a series of very compelling images capturing remnants of the old Chinese practice of foot binding. After a cursory attempt to find an original source for these photos I … Continue reading
Learning about America from prison flicks
What Hollywood is teaching the world through prison films and TV shows like Prison Break and The Shawshank Redemption
Posted in Film, Internet, Media and Advertising, TV
Tagged @classic, culture, Hollywood, KDNet, movies, Prison Break, prisons, Top Gudong
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