July 2007 - Danwei - Chinglishfriend.com

Xinhua discovers new gene in Homer Simpson's brain

Homer and Xinhua - click to enlarge Xinhua has published a report about new scientific research about multiple sclerosis (MS) — a debilitating degenerative disease. On Sunday, European and American researchers published findings showing that people who...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2007 11:43 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: State media

China Businesscast: Models for Online Video Sharing--Part 1

Online video sharing sites in China have to answer the same question posed to all of online media--how do you monetize? In this feature, we hear answers to that question from two well-known players in the high profile online video sharing space in China...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2007 9:47 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Wild leopards of Beijing by Michael Rank

CAPTION COMES HERE There are plenty of urban tigers strutting the streets of Beijing these days, but more surprisingly there are reported to be rural leopards lurking the misty mountains of Mentougou and other outlying areas of the Chinese capital. I...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2007 2:53 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Wildlife

A grand perfomance for PLA's 80th anniversary

Front Page of the Day is a daily review of the news on the front page of one Chinese newspaper, selected from a newsstand in Beijing's central business district. People's Daily , July 31, 2007 The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) was found on August...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2007 2:42 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

New Coke ads

China advertising blog MadisonBoom has photos of Coca Cola's new outdoor campaign. Translated excerpt: Coca Cola's huge new outdoor advertising campaign launched in Beijing today with ads on bus shelters on both sides of major streets. The ads have no...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2007 1:37 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Advertising and Marketing

Chiung Yao's dizzying TV dialogue

In this widely-mocked clip from Chiung Yao's new TV show Dreams Link , Wang Ziling (Zhang Jiani) explains why she's so dizzy. See below for background and a transcript. Here's a transcript of the first half of that clip: Ziling : Yun Fan, the car's got...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2007 12:46 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: TV

Playing games with clean government

As you sit in front of your computer playing WoW late into the night, do you ever wonder whether you could be doing something positive in the real world? Or at the very least, learning something new while you're grinding out levels? Well, you're in luck...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2007 5:10 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Electronic games

Beijing: Raido news assistant needed

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Published Mon, Jul 07 2007 4:17 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Jobs available

Beijing: Radio news assistant needed

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Published Mon, Jul 07 2007 4:17 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Jobs available

Iraq rocks Asia

Front Page of the Day is a daily review of the news on the front page of one Chinese newspaper, selected from a newsstand in Beijing's central business district. Titan Weekly , July 30,2007 Titan Weekly is China's leading sports newspaper. It is published...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2007 4:04 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

The ease of being a landlord in the Song Dynasty

Room for rent. Housing prices - how high will they rise? Will they ever come down? Will rents ever catch up? The housing market is a hot topic of conversation in Chinese media these days even outside the business section of the newspaper. Three of the...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2007 9:12 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Real Estate

Tibetan-style Chinese

Language Log linked to a blog post at Geek of All Trades that looks at a how lettering in one language can be made to resemble another, with Urdu-ized Devanagari as a specific example. In China this is most often done with Chinese characters and Tibetan...

Published Sat, Jul 07 2007 5:50 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Art

Harvest turns 50

A montage of Harvest covers. The influential literary magazine Harvest (收获) celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this month. The July issue of the magazine includes a sixteen-page special feature that illustrates the history of the magazine with photos...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2007 6:50 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Magazines

Give me a sex change operation

Fenghuang Gege (Phoenix chick) is a young man from Wuhan who wants a sex change, and is trying to get someone to pay for it with an online video campaign. In this clip, he discusses recent media coverage resulting from the videos. Source: Youku ; Fenghuang...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2007 6:39 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Featured Video

New regulations against corruption

Caijing July 23, 2007 China's Supreme People's Court and People's Procuratorate have issued new bribery rules aimed at stopping widespread corruption. The rules broaden the definition of bribery to include payoffs to "people with special relationships...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2007 4:57 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China