Posts tagged ‘USA’

Aug 28

Gao Xiaosong on America

Gao Xiaosong (高晓松) is a Chinese media personality known for his music, film work, and perhaps most influentially in his role as a judge on China’s Got Talent (中国达人秀) and Super Girls (超级女声). Read more

Jul 26

Advice for friends and family of Chinese students abroad

This is the latest posting on Danwei in a series about Chinese school life. It’s a translation of a popular posting on the social network Renren. Read more

Jul 23

Chinese students living in fear in the USA

“You own a BMW, you poor little rich kid.”

“They deserved to die.” Read more

Sep 14

A Chinese student on 9-11

This image is currently being circulated on Weibo. It’s a series of screenshots from a Phoenix TV program on the tenth anniversary of 9-11. The screenshots show an interview with a student in Beijing. These are the captions: Read more

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  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.

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• China News from the Financial Times

  • China clears Dreamliner for flights
  • Chinese solar industry seeks tariff deals
  • China data add urgency to stimulus calls
  • Hard to build an ‘anyone but China’ club

• China news from The Guardian

  • Was jittery Thursday a foretaste of another global economic crash?
  • Art Basel fair woos wealthy Chinese with champagne, logos and singers
  • Climate change art exhibition opens in Beijing | Jennifer Duggan
  • China reports rise in humans encountering wild Siberian tigers

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  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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