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Danwei Picks: another sort of PX protestPosted by Joel Martinsen, January 25, 2008 6:03 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). Pro-PX workers protest, no one notices: At China Digital Times, Jonathan Ansfield reports on a small demonstration outside the Xiamen government by workers fear they will lose their jobs if the PX project moves to Zhangzhou: Uniformed workers fanned out and blocked the front gates of city hall, said a woman who watched the protest unfold while manning a door at the People’s Hall across the street. Then the group sat on the ground. They did not shout any slogans or carry any banners, she said, so she had no inkling of what they were on about. "Who were they?" she asked blankly. Public security and military police vehicles soon showed up and officers secured the scene.
Major League Baseball will play its first games in China in March and hopes to broadcast them on local television in a push to internationalize America's pastime, league executives said here Thursday.
The most interesting thing to me about Gan's films are that they're coming from a point of view that's less concerned with dogma and theology and more with the role of spirituality in everyday life, something that's almost totally absent from most modern Chinese films. And he can sound downright dangerous at times.
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