Posts tagged ‘sheng’

Jun 8

Chinese instruments and the creation of a national music

Modern Chinese instruments are a lot like modern China: a disparate patchwork of various Parts forcibly cobbled into a Whole that, to hear some tell it, Always Was and Ever Shall Be. Read more

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• Australian Centre on China in the World

  Danwei is an affiliate of the Australian Centre on China in the World at The Australian National University. Some material on this website is the result of that on-going collaboration.

  Danwei also contributes to The China Story , and the China Story Yearbook, published by the Australian Centre on China in the World.

  See also China Heritage Quarterly and East Asian History.

• Recommended China Reading

  Model Workers 2012, our annual list of the best sites about China on the Internet

• China News from the Financial Times

  • China data add urgency to stimulus calls
  • Hard to build an ‘anyone but China’ club
  • N Korean envoy visits China amid tensions
  • Ai Weiwei mocks state in music video

• China news from The Guardian

  • Jung Chang writes 'groundbreaking' new biography
  • Tibetan rights groups criticise China over monk's five-year jail term
  • African hair salon in China brings success to its DRC owner
  • FTSE 100 falls sharply from 13-year high

• Great Wall Fresh

  Take a hike on a mountainous section of wild Great Wall, and enjoy organic family farm cooking, within easy reach of Beijing. Book online.

  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

  • Today's dose of the paranormal: Stargates and UFOs (2010.11): Yangtse Evening Post turns its eye on a "stargate" in the Gulf of Aden and a vortex off the coast of Norway.
  • Ai Weiwei's river crab banquet (2010.11): Artist and activist Ai Weiwei is put under house arrest in Beijing, but but his river crab party in Shanghai goes on without him.
  • Dreams of mansions, stories of stones (2008.04): A look at sequels, retellings, and pastiches of Cao Xueqin's immortal Dream of the Red Mansions.

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