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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History, academic and valuable unpublished material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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Recommended blogs and new media
China Media Timeline
Major media events over the last three decades
Books on China
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To die poor is a sin: An excerpt of Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang.
In Wang Shuo's No Man's Land: Geremie Barme addresses Wang Shuo's 千万别把我当人.
Swimming with Mao, a memoir essay: This memoir piece is by Xujun Eberlein, author of the new short story book Apologies Forthcoming'.
Front Page of the Day
A different newspaper every weekday
From the Vault
Classic Danwei posts
+ Beijing's Bloody August by Geremie R. Barmé (2006.08): Two first person accounts of the beginning of the decade of chaos in the Cultural Revolution, recorded by Sang Ye and translated by Geremie R. Barmé.
+ People: Chan Koon-chung (2004.06): John Koon-chung Chan profiled; He is one of the most experienced players in Chinese media, having founded magazines, written and produced feature films and TV dramas, started and run a satellite TV station, and written novels, collections of essays and even a treatise on Marxist literary criticism.
+ Boom times for Chinese film, but what comes next? (2008.02): Oriental Outlook (瞭望东方周刊) and Sanlian Life Week (三联生活周刊) examine China's film industry.
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