April 2009 - Danwei - Chinglishfriend.com

China's internal "war of information control"

At the China Media Project, David Bandurski summarizes the latest cases of Chinese citizens jailed for criticizing local officials, Wang Shuai and Wu Baoquan, and puts them into a context of wenziyu . Link picked by Danwei.org

Published Thu, Apr 04 2009 5:57 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

China denies Fujian origin of swine flu

China Business View April 30, 2009 The swine flu continued to get big coverage in today's newspapers. Yesterday, in response to the concerns raised over pig deaths in Changle and Fuqing, the Ministry of Agriculture denied that the virus originated...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2009 5:28 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

My Tibetan Students and I

From Fool's Mountain, Nimrod translates a letter that originally appeared on Zaobao.com: a teacher from the Shanghai Administration School wrote about his experiences with his Tibetan students: I love my Tibetan students very much. But my romantic...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2009 5:19 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

The Heritage of Commemoration

Anhua Building The China Heritage Project of the Australian National University has published a new issue of China Heritage Quarterly . This time the theme is "The Heritage of Commemoration". In light of all the anniversaries this year, there...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2009 4:55 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Information

Just an ice water, please

Children of migrant workers attend school in suburban Beijing: Will they have spare beer money in college? This is one of a series of letters written in the years 2002 to 2006 to a foreign advice columnist at 21st Century, an English newspaper published...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2009 4:20 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Newspapers

Toilets and trashy motel rooms in a new arts magazine

O'ZINE 符号 April-May 2009 A series of staged photographs set in a fleabag motel has captured the attention of Chinese Internet over the past two weeks. The photos, which had circulated without any information as to their creator, turned out to be part...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2009 12:30 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Magazines

Cross-border relations in the face of swine flu

NBC News Producer Adrienne Mong travels on a plane from Beijing to New York, and wonders if China will step-up its quarantine controls: Among those lessons learned is greater surveillance of travelers' health - which happens even when there is no...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 11:33 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

$3.4 bln on energy saving and ecological projects

From Xinhua: Of the 23 billion yuan spending, 13 billion went to improving urban water treatment facilities, 4 billion yuan to pollution prevention projects on the Huaihe and other big rivers, 3.5 billion yuan to forest planting projects and the other...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 10:42 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Can you name your local Party official?

Peter Foster, stationed in Beijing for the Daily Telegraph , conducts a survey on the streets of Korla, Xinjiang: Tellingly perhaps, the 55yr-old security guard said: "I used to remember the party secretary's name when he was a Uighur, but not...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 10:31 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Visa controls ahead of the Party's party

For The Age , John Garnaut reports on tightening visa controls ahead of the 60th anniversary: "It is even more important than the Olympic Games -- this is the party's party," said Geremie Barme, professor of Chinese history at the Australian...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 10:07 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Wen and Aso chat about wireless communication, friendly ties etc.

From The China Daily : Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao held official talks on Wednesday with his Japanese counterpart Taro Aso on bilateral ties, the global economic downturn and other major issues of common concern... ...Topics high on agenda in Aso's...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 9:43 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

A veil of silence over the mahjong tables

Beijing Loafer writes about a trip home after a several-year absence: The most awkward was with my two distant cousins whom I used to be close to. They might have lost their jobs from their work units. One married a truck driver, the other a railway employee...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 8:38 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

China is its own planet

Chubb at Cold China has more fun stories from the road. This time: a petitioner in an Internet bar, a pimp in Sanlitun, and a group of drunks in Songyuan: My mind flashed back to the taxi driver in Beijing the previous night, and it gave me an idea: rectify...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 11:58 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Papers raise the alarm about swine flu

Chengdu Evening News April 29, 2009 As more swine flu cases are being reported in various countries including China's neighbors South Korea and Thailand, flu-related news dominated the front pages of today's newspapers. Within the country's...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 5:37 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

"A Japanese movie shot by Chinese director"

The WSJ China Journal translates comments about Lu Chuan's Nanking! Nanking! or City of Life and Death from Netease and other portals. Link picked by Danwei.org

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 4:27 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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