| The Crystal Palace of the Forbidden City - 208 sec
Scholar, filmmaker and author of 'The Forbidden City' Geremie Barmé explains the history of one of the most fascinating buildings in the Forbidden City in Beijing.
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Tags: 'Forbidden City' Beijing China history 'Qing Dynasty' 'Geremie Barme' 'Jeremy Goldkorn'
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| The Crystal Palace - 208 sec
Scholar, filmmaker and author of 'The Forbidden City' Geremie Barmé explains the history of one of the most fascinating buildings in the Forbidden City in Beijing.
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Tags: Beijing China Forbidden City Geremie Barme Jeremy Goldkorn Crystal Palace Danwei TV
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| The Shanghai Beat - Music Shorts: Banana Monkey - 200 sec
A performance by Banana Monkey, an up and coming indie / garage rock band from Shanghai, China.
For more on Banana Monkey: www.neocha.com/banana_monkey
Produced by: Adam Schokora (the.shanghai.beat@gmail.com)
Intro music by: The Presets
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Tags: Shanghai Banana Monkey Danwei Schokora indie music rock bono
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| Graffiti Shanghai - 986 sec
Danwei.org and Danwei TV present episode 4 of The Shanghai Beat.
For this episode, titled "Graffiti Shanghai," host and producer Adam Schokora (小石) meets up with three of Shanghai's best known graffiti artists: Popil, Zhang Lan (AKA: Mr. Lan), and HKer, to get their inside perspective on the local graf scene and catch them in action painting a few pieces.
After the show, stay tuned for a musical performance by 21 Grams, a Shanghainese experimental post-rock band whose introspective music is largely inspired by their passion for film.
This episode has bilingual subtitles and is also available on Tudou.com (faster loading and higher quality when accessing in China): http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/XDfVEQLll38/
Credits:
Produced by Adam Schokora & Ginger Xiang
Soundtrack by Nara, K.C. Accidental, and Peter Bjorn & John.
Contacts:
email & msn IM: the.shanghai.beat@gmail.com
skype: the.shanghai.beat
AIM: theshanghaibeat
qq: 847022231
Special thanks:
Peng Xin (Banyue), Annie, Nara, Sean Leow, Katie Grube, Stephanie Tung, John Meckley, and Adam's Mac Book Pro for helping make this episode happen.
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Tags: Shanghai graffiti Popil Mr. Lan Hker Danwei Neocha Schokora Xiang China 21 grams moganshan rucker park beat
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| Three minutes of mourning in Beijing - 268 sec
As per government request, today at 2:27 pm, people in China marked the Sichuan earthquake that started on May 12 at this time by keeping silent for three minutes, while cars, ships and trains blasted their horns.
This clip, shot by Ada Shen, shows the scene on Beijing's Dongzhimen Nanxiaojie.
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Tags: earthquake Beijing mourning
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| Beijing Peddlers - 257 sec
This is a short film by Zhang Kaige about a group of traders who sell
vegetables on the streets in Beijing.
Subtitles by Danwei; all rights reserved by Zhang Kaige.
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Tags: danwei Beijing China peddlers hard life
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| Ten thousand firecrackers - 129 sec
A string of ten thousand firecrackers, lit on both ends, to celebrate Lantern festival, February 21, 2008 on Luoguxiang in Beijing.
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Tags: Beijing Spring Festival 2008 fireworks
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| Slaughterhouse Shanghai - 930 sec
Danwei.org presents episode 3 of The Shanghai Beat: A Show About Urban Life in Modern Shanghai.
In this episode, titled "Slaughterhouse Shanghai," we spend an afternoon talking with visitors and exhibitors, and taking a closer look at the 1933-built city slaughterhouse as the newly renovated ultra neo-deco structure plays host to the Shanghai International Creative Industry Week...an event bringing together art and design shops from all over the world. [Musical guest: the enormously talented local Shanghainese band "Cold Fairyland" (冷酷仙境) performing "Shadow Games" -- recorded at the drummer's apartment in late December.]
Credits:
Produced by Adam Schokora & Ginger Xiang
Soundtrack by Banana Monkey, Sulumi, E*Vax, Aphex Twin, & Andrew Bird
Contact:
email & msn: the.shanghai.beat@gmail.com
skype: the.shanghai.beat
AIM: theshanghaibeat
qq: 847022231
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Tags: Shanghai Danwei Danwei.org Schokora Xiang 1933 slaughterhouse neocha sexy sex China creative cold fairyland
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| Happy Rats - 5 sec
Four seconds of fireworks above Beijing's hutongs just after midnight on the first day of the Year of the Rat, February 7, 2008.
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Tags: Beijing Spring Festival 2008 fireworks
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| Chinese Women Film Directors in Yunnan - 268 sec
Lola is the producer of a series of films by first time female directors, all shot in Yunnan. This video is a short interview with her and with Wang Fen, director of 'The Case'
You can find out more about the Yunnan New Film Project at their website: http://www.cinecn.net
Auteur : Danwei
Tags: Film Yunnan Yumi Wang Fen Danwei Lola China Chinese Beijing sexy 金玉米
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| Neo Shanghai - 905 sec
The Shanghai Beat is a Danwei TV show hosted by Adam Schokora (小石). The show covers topics about "urban life in modern Shanghai" and features musical performances by local Chinese bands (courtesy of www.Neocha.com).
EPISODE 2: NEO SHANGHAI
SUMMARY:
In this episode of Danwei TV's "The Shanghai Beat," host Adam Schokora meets up with Sean Leow and B6, both co-founders of the Shanghai-based www.Neocha.com, a Web-site dedicated to connecting China's creative communities. Sean and B6 tell us more about their site, their groupies, and the state of creativity in China. The show also features a musical performance by the local Shanghainese indie-pop trio Hard Queen, shot in their rehearsal studio in mid-October.
Feel free to interact with the show by leaving comments or dropping us an email at the.shanghai.beat@gmail.com. Or, add us on IM:
msn = the.shanghai.beat@gmail.com
skype = the.shanghai.beat
aol IM = theshanghaibeat
qq = 847022231
We would love to hear your feedback and show ideas.
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Shot, edited, and written by Adam Schokora and Ginger Xiang
MUSIC CREDITS:
Intro track - Banana Monkey (Baby in Red)
Opening monologue - Sulumi (She Sank into a Fluffy Coach and Exhaled Noisily)
Soundtrack 1 - Four Tet (She Moves She)
Soundtrack 2 - B6 (Take You With a Sigh)
Soundtrack 3 - B6 (Marginal Philo)
Performance - Hard Queen (We Don't Care)
IF YOU MISSED EPISODE ONE (Gay Shanghai), check it out at:
Danwei.org: http://www.danwei.org/featured_video/a_guide_to_gay_shanghai.php
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOz9euaigPA
Tudou: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/JCiUpibEhUY/
STAY TUNED
Episode 3, "Slaughterhouse Shanghai," an afternoon at Shanghai's International Creative Industry Festival held at the newly renovated, 1933-built city slaughterhouse turned ultra neo-deco design/lifestyle/learning/exhibition center in HongKou district; with a musical performance by the renowned local Shanghainese band, Cold Fairyland (冷酷仙境).
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Tags: Neocha Adam Schokora Xiang Shanghai beat creative China hard queen sean leow B6 danwei Chinese Internet danwei.org
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| Gay Shanghai - 911 sec
The Shanghai Beat is a new DanweiTV show hosted by Adam Schokora. The show covers topics about urban life in modern Shanghai and features musical performances from local Chinese bands (courtesy of www.neocha.com).
In this episode, Adam spends the evening exploring all-things-gay in Shanghai with Comrade Yutian, a self-proclaimed expert on "gay Shanghai" and a proven local "scene queen."
The show ends with a performance by the Shanghainese band Banana Monkey, shot in their rehearsal studio in early September.
Feel free to interact with the show by leaving comments here on Danwei or pinging any of the contact details listed toward the end of the episode (MSN, QQ, Skype, email, etc.).
CREDITS
Written, shot, edited, produced by: Adam Schokora and Ginger Xiang
SPECIAL THANKS
Yutian
Chi Heng Foundation @ www.chiheng.com
Hot Water Bottle
刘向飞 @ blog.sina.com.cn/zougou80
丝丝 @ www.neocha.com/ss
EPISODE 1
Topic: Gay Shanghai (pt. 1, "Places")
Featured Band: Banana Monkey, performing "Drunk Daddy"
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Tags: Shanghai gay China Danwei Adam Schokora Ginger Xiang Neocha Banana Monkey sex sexy Danwei.org nightlife clubs bars
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| Sexy Beijing has moved - 27 sec
Danwei videos will continue to be uploaded here and also on http://danwei.org, but Sexy Beijing is now on its own website at http://sexybeijing.tv
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Tags:Danwei Sexy Beijing Su fei
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| Food safety in Beijing - 422 sec
A short film made for Danwei by Ren Bo about Chinese consumers' attitudes to food safety, shot in supermarkets and street markets in Beijing.
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Tags:food quality Beijing China Ren Bo Danwei
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| Major League Baseball in China - 522 sec
Sponsored by Major League Baseball (MLB), this is a short film shot and edited by Rick Widmer about MLB's training center in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
The film includes interviews with the American coaches, green to China, and their young charges who are green to baseball.
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Auteur : Danwei
Tags: sports baseball China Wuxi Jiangsu MLB major league little training camp
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| Danwei Music: Wu Fei's Guzheng Experiment - 504 sec
In this Danwei Music meet experimental musician Wu Fei. She is classically trained on the guzheng, one of China's most ancient string instruments. Wu is a Beijinger but now lives in the United States, where she studied music and recorded her first solo album "A Distant Youth." In this episode we film her on her China tour as she improvises on the guzheng with other experimental musicians and in the courtyard of her family's Beijing apartment.
Here are her websites: www.wufeimusic.com and myspace.com/feiwu
the record label is www.forresthillrecords.com(ITA)
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Sexy Beijing is now on its own website: check the latest episodes at
http://www.sexybeijing.tv
Auteur : Danwei
Tags: danwei music guzheng china chinese traditional experimental modern
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| Bringing it all back home - Hard Hat Show - 616 sec
Written and directed by Luke Mines, this episode of the Hard Hat Show looks at three Chinese 20 somethings who were born in Mainland China but went abroad at a young age. They have since returned and now live in Beijing where we interviewed them about how it feels to be back home.
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Sexy Beijing is now on its own website: check the latest episodes at
http://www.sexybeijing.tv
Auteur : Danwei
Tags:danwei beijing china culture
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| Sexy San Ba-Sexy Beijing - 407 sec
March 8, or 'san ba' in Chinese is International Women's Day, a holiday that is traditionally celebrated with much official support in China. But 'san ba' is also a rather insulting way to refer to a woman. In this episode of Sexy Beijing, Su Fei finds out why the country that wants women to hold up half the sky uses the date of their own holiday to put them down.
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Sexy Beijing is now on its own website: check the latest episodes at
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Tags: sexy beijing china sufei san ba women day 3/8 38 feminism hillary clinton
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| Beijing Jam - Choice Cuts - 496 sec
Danwei Choice Cuts brings you work from up and coming Chinese filmmakers and DV documentary producers. This time we present Beijing Jam, a short film by Lois Xiang about cars, traffic jams and road rage.
It's a visual essay that starts from historical footage showing the changes on Beijing's roads and ends with interviews with a parking attendant who was nearly run over by an enraged motorist who refused to pay the parking fee.
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Tags: Danwei beijing traffic jam China
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| Yangge Dancing in Shenyang - 331 sec
Best wishes for the Year of the Pig from Danwei TV!
This video is a rare glimpse of a folk dance performance by a deaf and hearing impaired troupe from Shenyang.
The dance is called 'Yang Ge' and is traditionally performed to bring in the New Year and features characters from Chinese legends like Sun Wukong (the Monkey King) and Xuan Zang.
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Tags:yangge Shenyang China Chinese folk dance Danwei deaf hearing impaired dancing monkey king
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