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Great Wall Fresh is a Danwei social project to use the Internet to enable farmers in rural Hebei and Beijing to become green tourism entrepreneurs.
Sinica podcast
Sinica is a weekly podcast about current affairs in China, hosted by Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn with a variety of guests drawn from Beijing's resident and transient community of journalists, China scholars and industry experts.
Danwei Classic Posts
Hu Shi, missionaries, and women's rights (2010.07): Julian Smisek translates an article by Hu Shi, who notes that missionaries, often considered the vanguard of the West's cultural invasion, did actually bring some positive change to China.
Annoying fake accents on Chinese TV (2010.07): Movie and TV critic Meng Jing (孟静) writes for Xinmin Weekly about actors adopting dodgy accents for regional TV dramas.
Tian Zhuangzhuang: The film world as mafia and commerical models of film (2009.11): Time Weekly interviews Tian Zhuangzhuang about his new film The Warrior and the Wolf, in which he talked about commercialism of films in China, the film industry as a kind of mafia and the lacking of a master film in China.
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