February 2009 - Danwei - Chinglishfriend.com

Not your grandfather's Chinese laundry

At Newsweek's China Calling blog, Nick Mackie writes about riverside clothes washing in Wanzhou and the niche businesses that have sprung up to serve the needs of washers. Link picked by Danwei.org

Published Sat, Feb 02 2009 6:22 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

"Hide and seek" death actually a beating

While the Chinese media has been fascinated by the Internet representatives invited to investigate an unusual death at a Yunnan detention center, local prosecuters have been conducting their own investigation, with a good deal more success. They now say...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2009 5:26 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

China's giant water scheme opens torrent of discontent

Chris Buckley writes for Reuters about people displaced by the massive South-to-North Water Transfer Project: In the decades before and after the dam was finished in 1973, 436,000 villagers were forced to move, often in hurried, unplanned evacuations...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2009 5:21 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Tales of Old Shanghai by Graham Earnshaw

Edited and written by Graham Earnshaw , another old China book from Earnshaw Books Tales of Old Shanghai is "a scrapbook of words and images bringing to life the glorious past of China's greatest city" (says the jacket). A scan from the...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2009 5:15 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: China Books

Zhao "left crescent" needs a new name

The man formerly known as C Zhao C can no longer call himself Zhao C. The 22-year old man had used "C" as his given name for his entire life, yet when the time came to update his ID card to a second-generation version, the local Public Security...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2009 3:56 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Language

How much are those bronze heads really worth?

Oriental Morning Post February 27, 2009 An auction of two bronze sculptures looted from the Yuanmingyuan drew furious articles in many of today's newspapers calling for state reprisal against Christie's, the Paris auction house. But Shanghai's...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2009 3:34 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

Shanghai: independent consulting firm seeks a news editor

This is a recruitment advertisement. Please contact the advertiser directly if you are interested. See all job ads or place a job ad . ¸ JL McGregor & Company ( www.jlmcgregor.com ), an independent research and consulting firm, is seeking a news editor...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2009 3:10 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Jobs available

The best commuter in Beijing

On The Beijinger Blog, an excerpt from the Insiders' Guide to Beijing 2009 about the best way to get to the Drum Tower from the CBD out of seven. Link picked by Danwei.org

Published Fri, Feb 02 2009 1:42 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Who's killing off private booksellers?

Virtual vs. brick & mortar Jifeng Bookstore, which has served readers from its store at the South Shaanxi Road Metro Station in Shanghai, recently bounced back from a death scare. When its lease expired, the bookstore was not sure whether it would...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2009 1:19 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Books

Chinese history for freedom

Gady Epstein of Forbes Beijing bureau starts a new column, Beijing Dispatch, today on the Forbes website. The first topic takes inspiration from Pierre Berge's remark that he would return the bronze animal heads of Yuanmingyuan in exchange for Tibet's...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2009 12:35 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Annual human rights tiff

From China Daily: "We urge the US to examine its own human rights problems and not use human rights as an excuse or publish human rights reports in order to interfere with others' internal affairs," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2009 10:47 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Jackie Chan steps into debate over sale of bronze animal heads

From The Guardian Chan, who collects and has in several cases donated antiquities, said he was to start filming a movie next year about the search for, and return of, treasures from the palace. "But now we have lost two more pieces. This has made...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2009 10:22 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

China's global spending spree

Peter Ford at The Christian Science Monitor examines China's purchase of stakes in French, Canadian, and Australian firms this month. Link picked by Danwei.org

Published Thu, Feb 02 2009 10:10 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Translating the Economist

Waxy looks at a translation team made up of Economist fans who translate every issue of the magazine into Chinese. From the site's about page: "Like the forum name says, producing a Chinese version of The Economist is our goal. But we're...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2009 9:53 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Beijing: UNICEF seeks a professional photographer as instructor

This is a recruitment advertisement. Please contact the advertiser directly if you are interested. See all job ads or place a job ad . Application Deadline: Monday 9th March 2009 UNICEF seeks the services of a qualified professional photographer with...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2009 8:50 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China