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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History, academic and valuable unpublished material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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China Media Timeline
Major media events over the last three decades
Danwei Model Workers
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Recommended blogs and new media
Books on China
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Tales of Old Hong Kong: The new Tales of Old Hong Kong compiled by Derek Sandhaus is available at Earnshaw Books.
Diamond Hill by Feng Chi-shun: Feng's memoir Diamond Hill describes an era of gambling and gangsters, Suzie Wong and squatter villages, fires and food stalls, and the Kowloon Walled City and its white powder. "A time when people were poor, but life was rich," he says. The world that he grew up in no longer exists, but his book - the first ever on the Diamond Hill refugee settlement, in either Chinese or English - offers a candid picture of what life was like for most Hong Kong residents in the 1950s.
William A. Callahan's China: The Pessoptimist Nation: China: The Pessoptimist Nation shows how the heart of Chinese foreign policy is not a security dilemma, but an identity dilemma. Through a careful analysis of how Chinese people understand their new place in the world, the book charts how Chinese identity emerges through the interplay of positive and negative feelings in a dynamic that intertwines China's domestic and international politics.
Front Page of the Day
A different newspaper every weekday
From the Vault
Classic Danwei posts
+ Yu Dan: defender of traditional culture, force for harmony (2007.05): Yu Dan (于丹) gets criticized by 'real scholars'. He Dong (何东) writes in her defense, saying that TV program hosts are the ones who ought to be upset. Zhao Yong in Southern Metropolis Daily writes that she upholds the mainstream government line.
+ Slow, polluting seniors removed from Beijing city streets (2007.01): Zhang Rui writes about a Beijing plan to ban seniors from the city's streets, with the goal of reducing gridlock among pedestrians.
+ Migrant worker blues: Who cares? by Bruce Humes (2006.09): Bruce Humes reviews two recent books about migrants in China: 'I Shall Shed No Tears' (我的眼泪不会掉下来) by Wang Lili and 'La Promesse de Shanghai' by Stephane Fiere.
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