Tag Archives: Olympics

Danwei Picks: Lijiang vs. white pollution

Tea for Olympic dissidents; Lijiang wipes out plastic bags; reversing the one-child policy?

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Losing money during the Olympics

Nightclubs forced to close during the Olympics – not everyone is going to make money off the Games.

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Sudan and South Africa

The South African government position on Darfur explained by a South African academic.

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Danwei Picks: Revolutionary heroes

Lu Jinbo on Internet publishing; dodgy air quality figures; Olympic logos; Cuba; heroes no longer revolutionary.

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Assessing Spielberg’s withdrawal from the Beijing Olympics

Steven Spielberg (斯皮尔伯格) backs out of the Olympics. Rose Luqiu (闾丘露薇), Han Song (韩松), and Wang Xiaoyu (王晓渔) comment.

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Olympics! Olympics! Olympics!

An ad for Hengyuanxiang (恒源祥) repeats the same line twelve times.

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Danwei Picks: more foreign film shenanigans

‘Shanghai’ blocked from filming; Suez tries to collect fees for its water utility; more on Edison Chen; Olympic architecture is awesome. And Taoist hell.

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Danwei Picks: clean attitudes in the mainstream media

Xinhua cleans up a Monitor article; Eliminating officialese; TV shows and mainstream attitudes; Hu Jia, Zeng Jinyan, and international PR.

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Danwei Picks: Globalization through scholarship

Ji Xianlin and the Tocharian language (吐火罗语); deaths in Olympic construction; Olympic boxer Zou Shunli (邹顺利)

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Snow and chaos

The Beijing News (新京报) on snow and the water cube

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