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Danwei Picks: 2008-01-08Posted by Joel Martinsen, January 8, 2008 4:46 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). Very yellow, very violent: 2008 is barely a week old and already the Chinese blogosphere is exploding with snark about a badly made, CCTV propaganda program about the dangers of the Internet. The program featured a young girl who claimed to have seen a shocking web page that was 'very yellow [i.e. pornographic], very violent'. ESWN has translated the juice of the story.
Qin argues China's phenomenal market success lies in stripping its peasants and workers of their rights to associate and bargain.
The followup: Public opinion will not lose" How will Murdoch deal with libel case against FEER?: In an article on the Sydney Morning Herald's website, Eric Ellis, familiar to Danwei readers as the author of a recent profile of Rupert Murdoch's wife Deng Wendi, explains the background to a libel case against the Far Eastern Economic Review brought by the family of Lee Kuan Yew, the island state's patriarch. The Far Eastern Economic Review is owned by Dow Jones. The article looks at how Rupert Murdoch, new king of Dow Jones, is likely to act in the face of intimidation from one of Asia's most powerful families.
China's Shougang Corp., parent of the only publicly traded steelmaker based in Beijing, will cut its production by 4 million metric tons this year to improve the environment as the capital city hosts the summer Olympic Games. |
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Henry F. Pringle's "Bridge House Survivor": Pringle was imprisoned by Japanese forces from October 1942 to August 1945, and Bridge House Survivor, available from Earnshaw Books, is his harrowing account of torture under the Japanese.
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Comments on Danwei Picks: 2008-01-08
Excellent! I've been a bit of a Qin Hui fan-boy ever since reading his personal and political reminiscences in "One China, Many Paths" (I think it was). I checked out the online booksellers trying to find some of his work on microhistory and peasant warfare but it seems to be mostly out of print.
Do you know what on earth is the hottest issue in shanghai now? People are strongly Againsting Maglev Train in Shanghai by all kinds of ways. Residents want to protect they beautiful home.However, the government still want to build it from this March.What a pity! Chinahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYQ8BkD_58