December 2008 - Danwei - Chinglishfriend.com

Sanlu executives stand trial

China Daily has an account of four former Sanlu executives' day-long session before a three-judge panel. Tian Wenhua, former company chairman, explained how she learned of the melamine contamination and why the company continued to sell contaminated...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2008 8:13 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Growing up Han in a fictional Xinjiang

At Paper Republic, Bruce Humes interviews Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan, translators of Wang Gang's novel English (英格力士): As translators, we did our best in the translation to preserve the local colour wherever it appears. As a reader, I think...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2008 7:43 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

China Daily's top ten trends in publishing

From the aforementioned paper: 5. The Sichuan earthquake in May caused heartache, and sent professional writers into the disaster zone. They wanted to be part of this collective consciousness, contributing to it with depth and unconventional angles. Investigative...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2008 4:06 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Top fake news of 2008

Yangtse Evening Post December 31, 2008 Today's Yangtse Evening Post chose the following ten stories as this year's top ten fake news items. 'Fake news' (假新闻) has become a frequently heard term to refer to made-up stories and hoaxes that...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2008 3:04 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

An English e-book from a Chinese newspaper

The Economic Observer is one of China's best weekly newspapers. Its website has an English section comprising translations from the paper and some original writing. Today, they also published an 84 page electronic book in PDF format titled Hope Through...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2008 2:06 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Newspapers

To hell with Suzhou dialect!

The blog xiaoerjing is self described as "tales of an American Muslim trying to make a life in the state of Wu", but it's more than that. In a post written today, the blogger says: in an effort to be more systematic with language acquisition...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2008 1:30 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Blogs

Science fiction fantasies of Shanghai

This is the second installment of a two part essay by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of Global Shanghai, 1850–2010 . The first part of the essay was published earlier on Danwei: A brief history of Shanghai's future . Sci-Fi Fantasies from Late Qing Times...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 11:21 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Shanghai

Interpreting the wisdom of Hu Jintao

The three don'ts President Hu Jintao's speech last week commemorating the 30th anniversary of China's reform era contained a number of quotable phrases , and the one that has received the most attention was the "three don'ts"...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 10:02 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Translation

Carl Crow confiscated and banned

From the China Rhyming blog: ...in mid-1938 as the Japanese were driving up the Yangtze to Hankou Time Magazine reported that in Shanghai the Japanese Army were ordered to seize pro-Chinese books by US authors including Carl Crow, Agnes Smedley, Edgar...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 9:31 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

China blog notes on the last day of 2008

Kai Pan at the group blog CN Reviews today posted a list of English China Blogs To Watch In 2009 . The list includes some of the usual suspects of the English language China blog scene. Danwei is in there, although we are chastised for publishing a large...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 8:13 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Blogs

China finds "largest dinosaur fossil site" in world

The biggest ice Santa, and now China finds the 'largest dinosaur fossil site' in the world; Reuters reports: Scientists in China say they have discovered the world's largest dinosaur fossil site in the eastern province of Shandong, state media...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 6:47 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Raymond Zhou's X-Ray

Raymond Zhou (周黎明) is well-known Chinese film critic, bilingual blogger and former China Daily columnist. Zhou is the author of many popular books including The Seven Veils of Salome (莎乐美的七层纱) and Hollywood Politics and Economics (好莱坞启示录), as well as...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 5:20 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Books

New magazines and newspapers at the end of 2008

Despite economic uncertainties and paper costs that have driven many publications to raise their prices or fold, a number of new magazines chose to launch in the last quarter of 2008. Here are two newspapers and two magazines that launched recently: ...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 5:18 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Newspapers

Wu Fei album launch in Beijing

This is an old Danwei video of experimental Guzheng player Wu Fei who has just released a new album titled 'Yuan' and will be performing in Beijing January 16-18 at Ma Wu Theater, Stone Boat and Yugong Yishan. Tags : Beijing , guzheng , music...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 2:03 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Music

Rizzoli in China

Rizzoli, or RCS Media Group was founded in Milan in 1927 by Angela Rizzoli and is one of Europe's largest media companies, operating magazines, newspapers, websites, as well as TV and radio stations. In China the group publishes Case da Arbitare ...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 1:00 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Magazines

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