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(Jun 3)
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Model Workers 2011
(Jun 3)
If you miss the old Danwei's daily news updates, we now offer daily and weekly updates on a paid basis, or you can check the fine sources listed here in Danwei's Model Worker list for 2011.
We will update this list periodically as new blogs, websites, and microblog feeds come to our attention.
Blogs and specialist websites
Asia Society website
News and features about Asia with plenty of China coverage.
The China Beat
Articles and blog posts by academics, historians and journalists.
China Digital Times
China news aggregator, translations.
China Geeks
Translations from Chinese media and Internet and commentary.
China Hearsay
China law, business, and economics commentary.
China Heritage Quarterly
Journal of history and heritage.
China Labour Bulletin
Labor issues and workers rights.
China Law Blog
Law and business commentary.
China Media Project
Translations from the Chinese media, and commentary and analysis from Chinese journalists and academics.
China Smack
Photos and ...
A temporary hiatus for Danwei.org
(Mar 16)
Notice
Danwei.org is going on temporary hiatus for an upgrade and redesign. In the meantime, please visit our partners or find a job.
Tags: announcement, Danwei, redesign
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A new literary magazine features new writing from Zhou Zuoren
(Mar 15)
O-pen, Spring 2011
Following Zhang Yueran’s NEWriting (鲤), Han Han’s defunct Party (独唱团), and Di An’s ZUI Found (文艺风赏), Annie Baobei becomes the latest popular novelist to launch her own literary magazine.
The inaugural issue of O-pen (大方) makes a splash by featuring a pair of literary giants.
The first half of the magazine is devoted to a lengthy interview with Haruki Murakami. The interview, conducted over the course of three days in May 2010 by Matsuie Masashi, first appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of Kangaeru Hito (考える人, “The Thinker”). The O-pen version is translated by Zhang Lefeng.
Accompanying the interview is a 1Q84-inspired trip through Tokyo courtesy of Peggy Kuo (郭正佩), the author of a book of photo-essays about the Tokyo locations featured in Murakami’s fiction.
One of the issue’s other highlights is “What Are Dragons” (龙是什么), a previously unpublished essay by Zhou Zuoren. Critic and O-pen editorial board member Zhi An (止庵) describes the essay’s journey to publi...
Energy-based cultural transmission
(Mar 15)
 Soft power
The Dongguan-based Pegasus battery company decorates its wares with elements of traditional Chinese culture.
"Energy transmits culture" (能量传播文化), the packaging claims, and customers can enjoy depictions of giant pandas, Peking Opera masks, the four great inventions, and scenes from classic novels, at least until they shut the battery slot and go back to clicking the TV remote.
Shown here is a Qing Dynasty ceramic jar with an illustration of a man riding a qilin. The caption:
Thousands of years ago, through their own knowledge and hard work, the ancestors of the Chinese people invented and created with their own hands a perfect artificial stone, which has endured to be enjoyed by all humanity. This artificial stone, known as ceramic, is a great wonder in the history of human civilization.
Tags: batteries, culture, energy, soft power
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The Eurasian Face
(Mar 14)
The Eurasian Face cover. Image: Blacksmith Books
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:
Image: Blacksmith Books
Adrian Da Silva
Musician / Songwriter
I was born in Hong Kong, my mother is British and met my Macanese Chinese father here when her family moved to Hong Kong.
As a child, being Eurasian had no real impact on me. I went to an international school and everyone was different. Now I am older, I appreciate the ambiguity of being Eurasian, I kind of like not belonging to any particular ethnicity. It’s good to not be defined by any nationality and its accompanying stereotypes (although it has to be said that sometimes Eurasians have their own stereotype of being smart and good-looking!). Saying that, I think that this ambiguity is not the preserve of Eurasians alone. Being such a cosmopolitan place, people in Hong Kong generally have a choice to...
Dating 101: change majors?
(Mar 14)
Man meets woman at Beijing's 8-Minute Dating club (photo courtesy of the club, 2004)
Ralph Jennings is a journalist and long time resident of China. He currently lives in Taipei. From mid-2000 to 2006, he had an advice column in the 21st Century weekly newspaper in which he answered letters from thousands of students and young professionals. Below is a letter from the archive, with an introduction by Jennings.
Meeting members of the opposite sex of course doesn't just challenge the youth of China. But a bouquet of social pressures that start from childhood nip off most of the nation's female-initiated romances before they bud: you're too young for a boyfriend (mom talking), we sent you to college for education not messing around (parents talking), women appear too "easy" if they make a move (society talking) and you're not good enough for the rich, handsome, charismatic guy who everyone else has eyes on (society again). Demoralising? Ask Judy.
Student letters to a foreign agony ...
What the citizens know: oil spills, environmental disasters
(Mar 11)
Clean up worker drowning in the the Dalian oil spill
This opinion piece is by Zhenni Zhang, who is studying environmental policy for her Master's in Environmental Management student at Duke University.
If they know the truth, they can do something
On 16 July 2010, in the northeastern port city of Dalian, China, two pipelines exploded, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and burning for over 15 hours. The damaged pipes released thousands of gallons of oil, which flowed into the nearby harbor and the Yellow Sea.
When it happened, it was called China’s worst ever oil spill, but it seems to have long been forgotten.
The State Oceanic Administration of China, an administrative agency for the supervision of sea area uses and marine environmental protection, will release the Annual Bulletin of Yellow Sea Environmental Quality in March. With the publication of the Bulletin just six months after the spill, the disaster is likely to reappear in public view.
Government officia...
Copyright Society to reprint out-of-print texts
(Mar 9)
Orphaned academic works will be reprinted in small quantities under a partnership launched by the China Written Works Copyright Society on February 24.
As announced by a small item in the February 28 edition of the China Press and Publishing Journal, the Society, the China Printing Group Corporation Digital Printing Company, and the Beijing Hanwen Diancang Culture Company signed a licensing agreement to bring limited-edition reproductions of out-of-print academic books to university libraries.
Covered by the agreement are “out of print books possessing research, reference, or collectible value,” primarily in the humanities, and originally published between 1949 and 2005. The rationale: “Reportedly, more than half of the books published in China every year, specialty academic books for niche audiences in particular, circulate only briefly before going out of print.” Additionally, university libraries have significant gaps in their collections “for various reasons,” and this pro...
Big in China
(Mar 9)
This is 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.
I met my Chinese teacher Yechen within two months of moving to Beijing and developed an immediate affection for him. When he told me that he was going to quit the language school where I was studying, I immediately hired him to give me private lessons and helped him find some other students who were also drawn to his rigorous, intellectually demanding sessions.
Yechen was an unusual guy, thoroughly grounded in classical Chinese philosophy, culture and religion. He spoke in aphorisms without pretension, animated his conversation with references to ancient parables, guided his decision-making by looking to historical precedence and was deeply out of step with contemporary Be...
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