Danwei
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Danwei helps clients stay informed and make better decisions in China.
Danwei was founded as a media tracking website in 2003, and began offering research and media services to companies, universities and financial institutions in 2006. Our reports are written and edited by a team with decades of experience in research, media and the Internet in China.
Our work includes face-to-face and telephone interviews with experts and consumers, technical monitoring of news and social media, desk research, and cooperation with our sister service China Confidential and other Financial Times data services. We also write and create custom media about China and Chinese themes for clients.
Last Updated: July 7, 2016
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The new regulations state clearly that chengguan may not use profane or threatening language while enforcing their duties, may not damage private property, and may not use any form of violence or intimidation.
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01.30.13A Survey of China's 24 Most Corrupt Officials in 2012
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The Renmin University Crisis Management Research Center surveyed 24 cases of corruption that became public knowledge on the Chinese Internet in 2012.
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Various front pages in China today feature glowing reports of China’s first aircraft carrier on whose platform a flag raising ceremony was held yesterday. Yet the fact that it happened is just about everything we know for sure about the ship. The...
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07.23.12The Beijing Deluge of 2012
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Xinhua reported on Monday morning that the death toll after torrential rains pounded Beijing on Saturday had climbed to 37. The report said that “Among the victims, 25 were drowned, six were killed in house collapses, one...
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07.23.12Chinese Students Living in Fear in the USA
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07.10.12SARFT Goes After Online Video, Again
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A spokesman for the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) announced yesterday that some original drama series and films on video websites like Youku.com and Tudou.com don’t meet government censorship standards and contain...
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06.12.12Northern Girls: Interview With Author Sheng Keyi
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Qian Xiaohong is a young woman from a village in Hunan who went to the boomtown of Shenzhen in the 1990s in search of work. She is bold and optimistic, if sometimes a little naïve, and has short black hair with just a hint of curl. She has the round...
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When ecologist Xie Yan heard about the Natural Heritage Conservation Act, she knew she had to kill it. So she wrote a letter. The open letter, posted on February 5 to Xie’s blog, became the focus of a story the next day at one of China’s most...
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05.18.12Chinese Media Seduced into Wrongdoing by Western Concepts
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05.15.12Interview on the Utopia Website Shutdown
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The inspectors called on the Utopia bookstore in the early hours of Friday morning, April 6. There was one official from the State Council, one from the Municipal Network Management Office and another from the Public Security Bureau. An unusually...
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05.14.12Violence in Chinese Hospitals
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