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Rights lawyer Ni Yulan － from prison to a Beijing park

Ni Yulan, photo from Southern People Weekly The lawyer Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) has been making the rounds on microblogs and the magazine world. Her story began when Beijing successfully won the bid to host the 2008 Olympics － and the municipal government promptly...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2010 7:10 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Beijing to merge downtown districts

The Beijing News , July 2, 2010 With the aim of streamlining government operations and facilitating future development, Beijing will eliminate two districts in its old city. The plan to merge Xuanwu District with Xicheng District, and Chongwen District...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2010 3:32 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Beijing's famous graves

The emperor scroll representing Arjiger's nobility Eric Mu has been writing a series about the stories behind Beijing's place names. This piece is about the famous "graves" that you may have heard. Many places in Beijing contain character...

Published Thu, May 05 2010 4:41 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Love in Beijing for African women

Sexy Beijing 's Su Fei interviews Zimbabwean Vimbayi Kajese, a news presenter on CCTV 9, about the dating scene for African women in Beijing. This article is from Danwei.org . tweet facebook bookmark HaoHao digg Mainland accessible mirror on Danwei...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 1:24 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Slogans on Tiananmen Gate

Tiananmen at night Slate's Daniel Gross, currently traveling through China, introduces a short post on Marxism in contemporary Chinese society with a surprising historical claim: When you stand in Tiananmen Square and look toward the Forbidden City...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2009 5:28 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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African Boots of Beijing

African Boots of Beijing , a 2006 documentary by Luke Mines and Jeremy Goldkorn about an African football team in Beijing, is now online. Part 2 is here (also on Youtube . Tags : Africa , African Boots of Beijing , Beijing , football , soccer , sports...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2009 3:28 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Beijing flyover

Planes and helicopters over Beijing, October 1, 2009. Tags : Beijing , October 1 This article is from Danwei.org . tweet facebook bookmark HaoHao digg Mainland accessible mirror on Danwei.TV

Published Wed, Sep 09 2009 11:24 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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The ground falls out from under Beijing's business district (again)

Fixing the sinkhole (image by The Beijing News ) Yesterday afternoon, a sinkhole opened up on Jianguo Road at the west end of Dawang Bridge. The hole spanned two lanes and led to gridlock in both directions for six hours before it was repaired last night...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2009 12:35 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Picking up some durian fruit on Jiu Gulou road

Dongdongqiang is an ex-cross talk practitioner and now runs a popular blog. A recent post about a forced eviction in Beijing Drum and Bell area has attracted some attention. Translation below: Earnestly request your attention on forced eviction of fruit...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2009 11:20 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Umbrella men

Embedded video from CNN Video Found via Shanghaiist , this is a hilarious video of CNN correspondent John Vause trying to film yesterday in Beijing yesterday and being obstructed by men wielding umbrellas. Tags : Beijing , CNN This article is from Danwei...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2009 12:59 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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A "parkour" look at Beijing

Beijing Parkour 's four booklets Parkour, the art of taking the quickest, most efficient path across whatever obstacles happen to be lying in the way, turns up in the title of a new book about Beijing. Beijing Parkour isn't really about running...

Published Fri, May 05 2009 5:15 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Beijing spring days

Spring has come to Beijing, with temperatures in the 20s Celsius (or 80s Fahrenheit) and beautiful blue skies yesterday and today. The photo above was taken not far from Beijing in Hebei yesterday. You can see the moon rising above the Wall just to the...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2009 10:48 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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In praise of fireworks

Burned out CCTV tower, from Xu Tieren Juliet Ye posted a summary of online reactions to the CCTV building fire on the Wall Street Journal blog: Live on the Net: Beijing’s Big Fire . The post quotes SOHO Group real estate mogul, blogger and tireless self...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2009 3:17 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Black Shanzhai village near Beijing

In the last few months, the word "shanzhai" (山寨) has lept from obscurity to become one of the most common buzz words on the Chinese Internet and the subject of many blog posts and articles in the Western media. Literally meaning "fortified...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2009 4:06 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Ghosts of Empire: Peking

Found via Quirky Beijing , this 1931 newsreel is called “Ghosts of Empire: Peking” from the Port O’Call series by William M. Pizor. Tags : 1931 , Beijing , film , Peking This article is from Danwei.org

Published Fri, Jan 01 2009 1:52 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Beijing's famous graves

Love in Beijing for African women

Slogans on Tiananmen Gate

African Boots of Beijing

Beijing flyover

The ground falls out from under Beijing's business district (again)

Picking up some durian fruit on Jiu Gulou road

Umbrella men

A "parkour" look at Beijing

Beijing spring days

In praise of fireworks

Black Shanzhai village near Beijing

Ghosts of Empire: Peking