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Danwei Picks: 2008-01-14Posted by Joel Martinsen, January 14, 2008 10:27 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). Mr Mao's Ringtones: This is a podcast in which Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of China’s Brave New World: And Other Tales for Global Times reads an essay titled 'Mr. Mao Ringtones' and speaks about the book and his thoughts about American perceptions of China.
Jia did however note that the Chinese Christian Council and the National Committee of Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China have provided various social services and resisted 'foreign sabotage activities.
The press release concerns the Weidenhamer and Clement papers — even though the papers were quite explicit in their acknowledgment that the source of the leaded material was unknown. In fact, the papers didn’t even try, because - as Weidenhamer and Clement surely know - there’s absolutely no way to distinguish lead solder imported into Taizhou from the United States, from lead solder that was trucked down to Zhejiang after being purchased in front of my Shanghai apartment building. That is, there is no way to tell without tracing the lead from the Yiwu workshop, to the e-scrap recycling shop where it was processed, and then - finally - back to the shipper, and the shipper’s source. Without doing that - without tracing the source - the only possible conclusion is a geographically non-specific one.
Yesterday, we were tipped off on our Contribute page that an anti-maglev protest was going to take place today 2pm at People's Square. Apparently that has been derailed by the police.
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Comments on Danwei Picks: 2008-01-14
Whitworth University int'l business prof, former Apple employee and China specialist Walter Hutchens has some analysis to add to the iPhone news:
http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/01/14/china-mobile-to-apple-buzz-off/