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Yantai Evening News August 7, 2008 China's Shandong Province is struggling with an electricity crunch which is the "worst in a decade". Since June, electricity rationing has been introduced in the province; electricity for households are limited to designated...
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As Beijing puts the finishes up its remaining last minute touches for the Olympics, I have been doing the same for How To Order Chinese Food Dot Com. In the past 24 hours, I have added several new dishes, brushed up some of the descriptions, and most...
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A Current TV program about self-made millionaire Chinese women. This article is from Danwei.org...
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Peninsula Metropolis Daily August 6, 2008 Today's Peninsula Metropolis Daily , a daily newspaper whose distribution is limited to Qingdao, a coastal city in Shandong Province, ran a big headline celebrating the newspaper's recent ascent to "the 55th strongest...
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CCTV chopper above Jianguomen Beijing's Ming and Qing dynasty emperors did not allow anyone to build structures higher than those of the Forbidden City, and their suspicion of tall buildings was passed on to Beijing's communist rulers, at least until...
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While Le Web in Paris has grown into one of Europe’s best tech conferences and attracted attendees from 37 countries, the founder says he has failed to find enough good presenters or interesting companies from Asia. Any suggestions? This article is from...
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Cadillac Escalade and Victorinox ads These two print advertisements are found in the latest issue of Maxim (风度). Two totally different products, from different countries, in two completely different sizes, just happened to use the text "Veni, vidi, vici"...
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Information Times August 6, 2008 The August 4 terrorist attack in Kashgar and the two-day-away Olympic Games guarantee that security precautions in China and especially Beijing are going to be really tight for the next few days. Today, the front page...
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Yesterday, the Guardian published an article written by Isaac Mao titled "China's First Blogger: It Was Just Like a Fairy Story." Isaac rewcenlty spoke at the Guardian's Future of Journalism Conferenc e. In the article, Isaac expounds on his 6 years of...
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For those of you who have kept up with this blog over the past two years, you probably remember when I worked at the Red Sun* barbershop for a month in May of 2007. With 8/8/08 rapidly approaching, I decided to spend my last week of pre-Olympic vacation...
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The Shanghai Beat brings you a 3-song performance by Hard Queen , an up and coming basement / indie pop band from Shanghai. Also on Tudou for faster loading in China (maybe). This video was shot in mid-July 2008 at ENO during an exhibition showcasing...
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Shenyang Evening News August 5, 2008 Almost all of today's newspapers reported on the terrorist attack that occurred Xinjiang yesterday, but since newspapers are not allowed to do their own reporting this sort of sensitive subject, each paper printed...
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Shenyang Evening News August 5, 2008 Almost all of today's newspapers reported on the terrorist attack that occurred Xinjiang yesterday, but since newspapers are not allowed to do their own reporting this sort of sensitive subject, each paper printed...
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Silicon Dragon author Rebecca Fannin adds her voice to the recent debate about whether China's tech sector creates or copycats . Does she convince? This article is from Danwei.org...
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Silicon Dragon author Rebecca Fannin adds her voice to the recent debate about whether China's tech sector creates or copycats . Does she convince? This article is from Danwei.org...
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A meeting in a city square in preparation for the 1982 census. Photo source . Graham Earnshaw was the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Beijing from 1980 to 1984, and he's been looking through his clippings, which seem to prove both that China has changed...
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Journalist and blogger Thomas Crampton is now posting some of his work on Danwei. China is ready for democracy, Arthur Kroeber argues. Instead of moving towards democracy at the behest of the rising middle class, however, the nation's elite and middle...
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On the Shanghai Scrap blog, Adam Minter looks at a story published today by The New York Times that quotes a source who 'spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear that he would be further harassed'. But the article provides the name and address of...
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Below is an excerpt from Geremie R. Barmé's book In the Red, on contemporary Chinese culture with particular relevance for the Olympic mood in China right now. The excerpt is from the chapter on Wang Shuo called ‘The Apotheosis of the Liumang ’. For the...
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Henan Business Daily August 4, 2008 A photograph of China's Premier Wen Jiabao jumping up and to shoot a basketball dominated the front page in today's newspapers. Today's Henan Business Daily printed the photo along with a big caption: The Premier is...
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Dodgy expat The Mutant Palm blog has posted a travel diary about Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia and Chinese people in those places. He starts the post off by noting a Chinese connection on the website of recently arrested suspected war criminal Radovan Karadzic...
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FEER's Hugo Restall interviews David Bandurski of the China Media Project about China’s Guerrilla War for the Web . This article is from Danwei.org...
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Have a look at this card which came into my possession the other night when I was out bar hopping in Fuzhou. For those of you whose eyes are as bad as mine, here’s what the writing says:
外籍卡使用须知 The foreign card usage beard know
This card is a foreign...
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Journalist and blogger Thomas Crampton is now posting some of his work on Danwei. The anti-CNN community busted the BBC for using a photo on July 29 showing Chinese police looking at a monitor that has been used by the BBC on multiple stories reaching...
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South Wind View July 30, 2008 The latest issue of South Wind View brings together the Wenchuan Earthquake and the Beijing Olympics, "not because they share any logical relationship, but because we discovered, after being unable to stop thinking about...
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