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Danwei Content Sampler

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Avoiding censorship
Article about banned Cultural Revolution film converted to PDF to avoid Great Firewall.

A workaround for the Great Firewall block on Flickr.com.

Providing space to exchange information about getting around Great Firewall block on Youtube.

Breaking news of interest to the community
Anti-Japanese demonstrations in Beijing.

Protests against construction of chemical plant in Xiamen.

China and Africa
Video about Africans living in China and their reactions to the 2006 Africa-China Summit

Media regulation
Translations of the public debate about fake news and media regulation

Translations of independent voices in China
A translation of an essay by Wu Si about how China’s authoritarian government leads to human tragedies like the ‘Shanxi brick kiln slave’ scandal of 2007

Urban development and architecture in Beijing
A video interview with preservationist Zhang Jinqi about the destruction of historic areas of central Beijing

Big buildings of Beijing: a tour of the new avant-garde architecture

China blogs and media
The most comprehensive directory of China media websites and blogs:
English blogs & websites
Chinese blogs & websites

A timeline of media and Internet development in China from 1978 to 2006

Gay China
Promoting a gay HIV related event in Beijing:

A video guide to gay Shanghai

Advancement of rule of law
China’s new property law and its implications

Is a jury system for dealing with migrant worker rights actually going to help them?

Internet, media and culture
A video interview with Chinese podcast pioneers Antiwave

Sex blogger Mu Zimei and government campaigns to clean up the Internet

A video interview with Media mogul Hung Huang about women in China as seen in her independent film

History, academic and valuable unpublished material
A review of Chinese ethnomusicology

A translation by Geremie Barmé of Chinese journalist’s Sang Ye’s oral histories that was abridged from the English version of the book

How the Communist Party killed Chinese comedy - the death of Chinese stand-up

The Chinese culture wars
Resurgent traditional values

Changing the Subject: How the Chinese government controls television

Chinese blogger mocks TV regulators

The environment
A field guide to the snakes of the Beijing area

Original reporting about planned dams in Yunnan Province

 
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Princess Der Ling: Two Years in the Forbidden City: Two years in the Forbidden City is largely a reminiscence of the minutiae of life for one of history's most powerful women, by one of her court attendants, a Manchu noble's daughter by the name of Der Ling.
Carl Crow's The Long Road Back to China: In 1939 Carl Crow - an American journalist, advertising executive and author who had lived in Shanghai for 25 years until forced out by the Japanese - travelled up the Burma Road from Rangoon to Chongqing on assignment for Liberty magazine - 'the most interesting assignment I have ever been given'.
Front Page of the Day
A different newspaper every weekday
From the Vault
Classic Danwei posts
+ New Years Past: Other Spring Festivals by Geremie R. Barmé (2007.02): Sang Ye interviews two people about their experiences during Great Leap Forward-era Spring Festivals. Translated and annotated by Geremie R. Barmé.
+ Trend-spotting in online fiction (2007.06): An interview with Daniel Dan Fei (丹飞), publisher of Notes on Graverobbing (盗墓笔记), Rear Palace (后宫), and Those Ming Dynasty Things (明朝那些事).
+ China's 50 Most Beautiful People (2005.03): The Beijing News borrows a picture of Maggie Cheung from Cosmo for the cover of today's Entertainment insert, "50 Most Beautiful People in China". Ms. Cheung takes the top spot, with Takeshi Kaneshiro, Little S, Zhang Ziyi, and Liu Ye rounding out the top five in this exercise that is a conscious imitation of People magazine's yearly rundown.
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