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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-13Posted by Joel Martinsen on Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 5:16 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). In an era of laws, who has a rightful claim to Mao's millions?: At the China Media Project, David Bandurski summarizes the conversation - past and present - over the royalties Mao accumulated from his writings: Even as Mao's legacy remains an important ideological bargaining chip in leadership circles, it seems — on a preliminary analysis of this recent news wave — that his legacy is now more open to scrutiny.
Over the last three years, three and a half million mobile users have created over 14 million "red" SMS messages ("红段子"), which have been downloaded and passed on over 100 million times, according to this Xinhua article about Guangdong's "red SMS culture" (色短信文化), found via Zhejiang Online. "Healthy" red SMS have been solicited by China Mobile Guangdong for the last three years in an effort to counteract "yellow" SMS (of a sexual nature), "black" SMS (characterized in the article as "malicious satire"), and "gray" SMS (doesn't say what this means). A Xinhua reporter recently went to investigate some of the people who have been creating and circulating the red SMS, to hear their stories and understand what lies behind this "healthy" movement. Ant kingpin arrested for inciting unrest: From Reuters: Yilishen, which began making ant tonic in 2001, had filed for bankruptcy and was undergoing liquidation, the English-language report on www.china.org.cn said....The chairman of Yilishen, Wang Fengyou, has been arrested on charges of instigating social unrest, the Web site said. He is suspected of paying employees and company executives to organise counter-protests outside government offices....
New Oriental (新东方. NYSE:EDU), China's private education behemoth, has rolled out an online Chinese language learning service -- TargetChinese. It is a little rough around the edges, but with New Oriental's resources and expertise it should become a major player in the growing Chinese language learning market. We need all the help we can get, as learning Chinese is not without its challenges. |
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Big in China: An adapted excerpt from Big In China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising A Family, Playing The Blues and Becoming A Star in China, just published this month. Author Alan Paul tells the story of arriving in Beijing as a trailing spouse, starting a blues band, raising kids and trying to make sense of China.
Pallavi Aiyar's Chinese Whiskers: Pallavi Aiyar's first novel, Chinese Whiskers, a modern fable set in contemporary Beijing, will be published in January 2011. Aiyar currently lives in Brussels where she writes about Europe for the Business Standard. Below she gives permissions for an excerpt.
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+ Korean history doesn't fly on Chinese TV screens (2007.09): SARFT puts the kibbosh on Korean historical dramas. + Religion and government in an uneasy mix (2008.03): Phoenix Weekly (凤凰周刊) article from October, 2007, on government influence on religious practice in Tibet. + David Moser on Mao impersonators (2004.10): I first became aware of this phenomenon in 1992 when I turned on a Beijing TV variety show and was jolted by the sight of "Mao Zedong" and "Zhou Enlai" playing a game of ping pong. They both gave short, rousing speeches, and then were reverently interviewed by the emcee, who thanked them profusely for taking time off from their governmental duties to appear on the show.
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