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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-24Posted by Joel Martinsen, December 24, 2007 6:49 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). Danone and Wahaha smoke peace pipe: Mure Dickie of the Financial Times reports: Danone, the French food group, and Wahaha Group of China have agreed a legal ceasefire and return to 'peace talks' for the resolution of one of the most high-profile disputes between a foreign company and a Chinese partner.
Chinese farmers are finally showing their power, standing up to the sky. Hundreds of thousands of farmers from three different regions publicly announced to the whole nation that they have the right to own their land. Looking back at villagers in Xiaogang (小岗村) who divided their land in the early reform period, that could still be considered kneeling on the ground, an improvement from their previous totally supine position. This time farmers have really stood up, despite the potential high pressure from the government.
A fist-chop in the throat and surveillance by secret police seems to have put a swift end to the career of China's most popular investigative blogger Zhou "Zuola" Shuguang, but judging from his post earlier this month 'Zhou Shuguang's understanding of citizen reporters and citizen media', if you were to ask him: "is citizen journalism dead?", you'd stand a very good chance of being told that bloggers like him can and must "do journalism", and why. Throw in the way he coldly describes personal accounts as sample specimens below, in addition to making a few criticisms and judgments, and you might just leave seeing citizen media as both an art and a science:
Despite momentary disagreements and terse words over exports and the renminbi, many economists believe that China is well on its way to becoming an economic powerhouse on par with the G-7 nations. Although the future tenor of U.S.-China trade relations is likely to include more than a few challenges, Robert J. Barro, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, takes an optimistic approach: "We should avoid the protectionist policies that now seem so threatening. And we should enjoy the flow of low-priced Chinese imports—this great deal won't last forever."
that's: You've dubbed the film for the Chinese mainland. Tell us more about this decision.
The only time, if ever, most non-disabled people will have interaction with a blind person is when they go to get a massage. There are many of the 12.3 million visually impaired or blind people who do have canes, but the number who would dare to venture out alone with a cane is very, very small and of those, almost none are totally blind. More commentary at Beijing Calling.
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