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Interview with fimmmaker Zhao Dayong

An interview with Chinese independent filmmaker by Jeremy Goldkorn

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Eveline Chao on Chinese slang and swearing

Eveline Chao, author of “Niubi”, teaches Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn the origin of ‘niubi’, how to say ‘fisting’ and other useful phrases in Chinese.

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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.

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The young Uighurs were full of empathy and faint excitement: China Newsweek reporting from Urumqi

Danwei asks China Newsweek journalists questions about the ethnic conflict, their own take on media freedoms during reporting, reactions to Western reports and biases, and as their stay in Xinjiang.

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Michael Pettis interviews Carsick Cars’ Zhang Shouwang

In the May issue of Esquire, Pettis asks Shouwang, whose name means “to keep watch”, ten questions about composing the a very famous song, rock music today compared to the ’80s, traveling and “new Chinese music”. Below Danwei republishes the full English interview with Pettis and Shouwang’s permission.

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Samuel Ting on history and the Republic

A video clip extracted from an interview with CCTV’s TV show host Qu Xiangdong interviewing Nobel Prize Winner Samuel C.C. Ting.

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Liu Xiaoyuan: I fought the law and the law won

Adam Schokora interviews Liu Xiaoyuan at CNBloggercon 2008.

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Zola, citizen journalist

An interview at this year’s Chinese blogger conference with Zola (Zhou Shuguang), a citizen journalist and blogger well-known for covering sensitive events throughout China.

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BloggerCon interviews: Yang Hengjun

In this, the second in a series of short interviews conducted at this year’s Chinese blogger conference, Yang Hengjun, a political espionage novelist and well-known blogger, talks about Chinese netizens’ collective power as ‘human search engines,’ and the domestic Internet censorship machine.

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