August 2009 - Danwei - Chinglishfriend.com

"There is no open information here"

At China Elections, Paulina Hartono translates a China Youth Daily report on one Nanjing citizen's attempts to obtain public information from the government: However, Wang Qing says that he won't think about those issues for the time being. He...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 9:18 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Can Chinese companies renege on commodity derivative contracts?

The New York Times reports on a Caijing story that suggests that China's Assets Supervision and Administration Commission has informed foreign banks that it will given Chinese companies permission to break money-losing derivatives contracts: A Hong...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 9:13 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Cui Jian's concert on the square

Photo from Rock and Roll on the New Long March , March 1989 A young, Nanjing-based musician recently uploaded a bootleg of a 24-minute, four-song set that Cui Jian and his band played back in 1989: A rare old recording. Maybe people have seen Cui go to...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 6:01 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Music

A Super Girl sings Cui Jian

A clip of Huang Ying, one of the finalists in the Super Girls competition, singing Cui Jian's most famous anthem, Nothing to my Name ( 一无所有 ), via FangKC . For more Cui Jian, see this post . Tags : Cui Jian , Huang Ying , Super Girls , video This...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 5:56 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Music

Beijing: Part-time Travel Sales position

Company : Beijing Carnival International M.I.C.E. Opening : Immediate Responsibility : - Seeking potential customers (especially in your native country or amongst your own community) - Bringing any business cases connected with travel programs, such as...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 3:59 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Jobs available

These are special times: smoking will get you five days in jail

Chongqing Morning Post August 31, 2009 Yesterday, the Chongqing Morning Post reported the story of a man who was jailed for smoking in a local wholesale market. The report has caused a bit of stir since enforcement on the smoking ban is generally lax...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 3:48 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

Beijing: Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Seeks a Program Manager

This is a recruitment advertisement. Please contact the advertiser directly if you are interested. See all job ads or place a job ad . The program manager is a member of the International Department that is fast paced and friendly, with every team member...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 1:49 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Jobs available

The third case of the lead poisoning affair

AP reports on the two hundred children with lead poisoning in Kunming: Two hundred children are suffering from lead poisoning in southwest China, the country's third such case of mass sickening in the past month, an official newspaper said Monday...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 12:19 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

China's space pioneer under the microscope

Peter Brown writes for the Asia Times about Tsien Hsue-shen (钱学森, Qian Xuesen), the Chinese rocket scientist who was the subject of Iris Chang's biography Thread of the Silkworm and a new paper on the development of China's space program: Although...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 12:18 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

China may buy over 3 million iPhones in 2010

Following the official announcement of Apple's collaboration with China Unicom on Friday, Bloomberg reports on the expected sales: “China was the last missing piece to the iPhone international story,” said Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 12:06 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Here's to you Chris Lee

cfensi writes an appreciation of Li Yuchun (aka Chris Lee), the Super Girl winner who has shown a remarkable amount of staying power despite the mockery and criticism she has received: Throughout the changes that have occurred over the years in China...

Published Sun, Aug 08 2009 10:47 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Lu Xun in textbooks and on the net

ChinaGeeks translates an essay by Chang Ping on Lu Xun's place in the secondary school curriculum. At the same time, because the textbooks provide prescribed responses for Lu Xun’s essays, students feel Lu Xun is dull, dry, and even begin to oppose...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2009 11:19 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Yunnan media bans boilerplate about social disturbances

ESWN translates a Southern Metropolis Daily article on a decision by the Yunnan propaganda authorities banning terms like "a small handful", "evil elements," and "troublemakers" from being used in reports about social disturbances...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2009 10:37 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

CCTV and Koolhaas deflect rumors about an obscene building

The controversy over the supposed "dirty joke" behind the new CCTV headquarters building hit the mainstream press this week. Both the China Daily and the Global Times sought responses from the architecture community as well as China's Internet...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2009 10:58 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Architecture

Chain-tweeting over the GFW

John Pasden at Sinosplice explains how to connect a Zuosa account to its blocked Twitter counterpart by hopping through a Taiwan-based microblog service. Link picked by Danwei.org

Published Sat, Aug 08 2009 8:42 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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