|
Front Page of the Day
Name your child "Olympics"Posted by Banyue, October 24, 2007 3:27 PM
 The First, October 24, 2007 At long last, the front pages of different papers have different news. The top headline in The First today says that there are 3,491 people in China named "Aoyun" (奥运), or "Olympics." 3,216 are male and 275 female; Beijing has 6 Aoyun. Other people share a name Fuwa, mascots of the games, but that might be merely a coincidence. The front page picture shows the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra rehearsing beside a dinosaur fossil in the Beijing Natural History Museum. The Canadian group performed for the public last night and will be on stage tonight at the Forbidden City Concert Hall. Marika Domanski-Lyfors (photo on the left), the first foreign coach of China's Women's football team, resigned "for family and heath reasons." The Chinese Football Association announced her decision yesterday. Other headlines:
|
Partner Links
Jobs in China
Recent Comments
chengdude on
Blockages
Joel Marti on
Chengdu bus fire blamed on 62-year-old suicidal gambler
vivian on
Bound feet in China
Sajid on
China first police blog
Media Partners
Visit these sites for the latest China news
China Media Timeline
Major media events over the last three decades
Danwei Model Workers
 Recommended blogs and new media
Books on China
 Foreign journalists in China, from the Opium Wars to Mao : Paul French, author of a book on Carl Crow has written a book about the lives and exploits of foreign journalists reporting from China from the 1820s to 1949.
Earnshaw Books' Tales of Old Peking: Tales from Old Peking is available from Earnshaw Books, and like its sister, Tales from Old Shanghai is a book of fragments of information about periods, events or places in Beijing's history, collaging together pictures and text about eunuchs, concubines, the Lama Temple, Opium Wars, art, emperors, and a miscellany of other interesting topics
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.
Front Page of the Day
A different newspaper every weekday
From the Vault
Classic Danwei posts
+ A short interview with Muzi Mei (2004.02): Danwei interviews Muzi Mei + CCTV vs. classic movies (2006.03): A rundown of several pastiches of Chinese movies appearing online as 大史记 - "The Year That Was". Some from CCTV, others not. With links to video. + Street hawker cries of Beijing (2006.12): Yang Changhe demonstrates hawker's cries in a video shot by Muzimei.
Danwei Archives
Danwei Feeds
Via Feedsky
 (on the mainland)or Feedburner  (blocked in China) Main feed: Main posts (FB has top links) Top Links: Links from the top bar Danwei Jobs: Want ads Danwei Digest: Updated daily, 19:30 |
 |
Chinese media, advertising, and urban life. |
|
tweet
facebook
bookmark
HaoHao
digg
Comments on Name your child "Olympics"
Theese people are just stupid... we are doomed
I was noticed that there are babies named as the mascots of the games, these names are: Bei Bei, Jing Jing, Huan Huan, Ying Ying , Ni Ni. Its funny!