Newspapers

Demolition blues, Chinese students die in Moscow fire

Headlines from the Chinese press
NOVEMBER 25 NEWSPAPERS

Beijing Star Daily 信报
No demolition or forced removal without prior agreement
没有达成协议就不能拆迁
What it means: New real estate developments in Chinese cities usually displace previous residents, often without their consent. It's common for people to be given only a few weeks but sometimes as little as a day or two to move. And it's not an offer you can refuse. Are new regulations going to change this? Is the pope Jewish?

The Beijing News 新京报
Moscow fire: 32 dead, 13 Chinese students missing
莫斯科大火32人遇难中国留学生13 人失踪

Beijing Morning Post 晨报
Eyewitness accounts: Chinese students flee the [Moscow] fire
中国学生自述火海逃生

Beijing Youth Daily 北京青年报
Russian fire: 13 Chinese students missing
俄大火我留学生13人失踪

People's Daily 人民日报
Chinese Communist Party Central Political Bureau conference
to research next year's economic work and using human talent to strengthen the country's strategy
中共中央政治局召开会议
研究明年经济工作和实施人才强国战略问题
What it means: Yawn.

INTERNET

Sina
Moscow fire: 5 Chinese students confirmed among the dead
莫斯科火灾确认五名中国留学生遇难

Sohu
13 Chinese students missing in Moscow fire
13 名中国留学生在莫斯科火灾中失踪

NOVEMBER 24

Beijing Evening News 北京晚报
ICBC bank upgrades system, boosting 3 services
工商银行系统升级推进三大贴身服务
What it means: Bold reporting from Beijing's cutting edge media.

Shanghai Xinmin Evening News 新民晚报
Wen Jiabao interviewed by Washington Post
温家宝接受《华盛顿邮报》采访

Media Partners
Visit these sites for the latest China news
090609guardian2.png 090609CNN3.png
China Media Timeline
Major media events over the last three decades
Danwei Model Workers
The latest recommended blogs and new media
laomo2010x80.jpg
From 2008
Books on China
The Eurasian Face : Blacksmith Books, a publishing house in Hong Kong, is behind The Eurasian Face, a collection of photographs by Kirsteen Zimmern. Below is an excerpt from the series:
Big in China: An adapted excerpt from Big In China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising A Family, Playing The Blues and Becoming A Star in China, just published this month. Author Alan Paul tells the story of arriving in Beijing as a trailing spouse, starting a blues band, raising kids and trying to make sense of China.
Pallavi Aiyar's Chinese Whiskers: Pallavi Aiyar's first novel, Chinese Whiskers, a modern fable set in contemporary Beijing, will be published in January 2011. Aiyar currently lives in Brussels where she writes about Europe for the Business Standard. Below she gives permissions for an excerpt.
Front Page of the Day
A different newspaper every weekday
From the Vault
Classic Danwei posts
+ Korean history doesn't fly on Chinese TV screens (2007.09): SARFT puts the kibbosh on Korean historical dramas.
+ Religion and government in an uneasy mix (2008.03): Phoenix Weekly (凤凰周刊) article from October, 2007, on government influence on religious practice in Tibet.
+ David Moser on Mao impersonators (2004.10): I first became aware of this phenomenon in 1992 when I turned on a Beijing TV variety show and was jolted by the sight of "Mao Zedong" and "Zhou Enlai" playing a game of ping pong. They both gave short, rousing speeches, and then were reverently interviewed by the emcee, who thanked them profusely for taking time off from their governmental duties to appear on the show.
Danwei Archives
Danwei Feeds
Via Feedsky rsschiclet2.png (on the mainland)
or Feedburner rsschiclet.gif (blocked in China)
rsschiclet2.png rsschiclet.gif Main feed: Main posts (FB has top links)
rsschiclet2.png rsschiclet.gif Top Links: Links from the top bar
rsschiclet2.png rsschiclet.gif Danwei Jobs: Want ads
rsschiclet2.png rsschiclet.gif Danwei Digest: Updated daily, 19:30