January 2009 - Danwei - Chinglishfriend.com

Liberal democracy traded in for cash?

Davesgonechina at the Mutant Palm blog covers misperceptions in China and the West of Charter 08. See also Planet China, Planet America , about how Chinese and Americans differ in what they see as the major issues facing China at the moment. Link picked...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2009 6:37 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

200 million intellectual migrants

China Digital Times translates a blog post by Guizhou-based blogger Deng Jian that recaps ten years of online life: Over the past ten years of my Internet experience, I could hardly imagine that now I would be addicted to writing blog pieces and commenting...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2009 6:12 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Did the economy cause the Virginia Tech murder?

From The Shanghaiist: It didn't take long for Chinese netizens to get on the case of the brutal Virginia Tech murder. Almost immediately, forum members human flesh searched the killer, Zhu Haiyang, and sussed out his university scores, his QQ number...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2009 3:30 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

The return of Bullog.com

From Under The Jacaranda Tree blog, which announces (as does many other places) the return of the USA hosted Bullog Luo Yonghao announced early in the morning on 31 January 2009 the official launch of Bullogger.com, the international version of Bullog...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2009 3:25 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Bullog International (part II)

Following the closure of blog host Bullog, proprietor Luo Yonghao has re-opened his overseas website Bullogger: "Hosted on machines in an American imperialist server room, the exile website Bullog International is now open." Invited bloggers...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2009 6:46 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

"These banal details burrowing their way into my brain"

Froog posts a review of Ma Jian's Beijing Coma to the BookBook blog. Link picked by Danwei.org

Published Fri, Jan 01 2009 6:12 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Rising unemployment impacts migrant workers

Dan Chung's video featuring Guardian journalist Tania Branigan about whether peasant workers will return to cities to work after the Spring Festival break. Tags : Dan Chung , financial crisis , Guardian , Spring Festival , Tania Branigan , workers...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2009 4:33 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Featured Video

A time for dumplings

Beijing Evening News January 30, 2009 In Beijing and other areas in northern China, the fifth day of the Spring Festival is traditionally a day to eat jiaozi . Today's hard-hitting Beijing Evening News headline shouts: "2,500 kilos of ground...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2009 3:54 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

A Sinologist in Iraq

At Frog in a Well, Alan Baumler writes about Graham Peck's Two Kinds of Time , a book about one American's experience in China during the War of Resistance: Peck is deeply critical of the American government's decision to bind themselves hand...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2009 12:05 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

State jobs in the boonies

Maureen Fan at the Washington Post writes about one solution to the college graduate employment problem: Chinese officials, spurred by the global financial crisis that has slowed economic growth and nervous about the prospects of more than 1.5 million...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2009 9:48 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

A tasteful ad from Hengyuanxiang

Tasteful? Compared to last year's Spring Festival Gala it is. Hengyuanxiang is a wool company infamous for repetitive TV ad spots. Tags : commercial , Hengyuanxiang , Spring Festival Gala This article is from Danwei.org

Published Wed, Jan 01 2009 6:58 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Featured Video

The past and present of the CCP First Congress Memorial

Samuel Y. Liang writes for the China Beat about "the building where an early meeting of the Communist Party was held in 1921, which stands near the recently built shopping and entertainment district known as Xintiandi": Seeking to recreate the...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2009 9:22 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Ming Pao bows out in New York

The New York Times reports on plans by Hong Kong-based Media Chinese International Limited to halt publication of the New York edition of Ming Pao : According to several current and former Ming Pao staff members, the paper has always struggled to find...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2009 9:14 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Martial arts novelist Liang Yusheng dies

The Beijing News January 27, 2009 Today's papers announce the news that Liang Yusheng (梁羽生), an acclaimed martial arts novelist, passed away in Sydney on January 22. He was 85. Liang got started writing martial arts, or wuxia 武侠, fiction in the 1950s...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2009 10:45 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

[Help], [Help], [Help] the Police!

Brendan O'Kane picks apart the a recent New York Times article on Chinese hip-hop. Link picked by Danwei.org

Published Mon, Jan 01 2009 8:41 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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