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.
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 is supported by the excellent online Chinese learning program Popup Chinese which teaches colloquial and practical Chinese as spoken in the Mainland using audio podcasts and downloadable PDFs.
China Green
This website is supported by China Green, a multimedia website about environmental issues in China, produced by the Asia Society.
What happened to the men who built China? (2010.10): Daily Telegraph's Malcolm Moore takes a look at China's first generation of migrant workers transformed China, building its skyscrapers, manning its factories and digging its mines.
Lisa Brackmann's Rock Paper Tiger excerpt and Q&A; (2010.08): Lisa Brackmann has worked as a motion picture executive and an issues researcher in a presidential campaign. She has lived and traveled extensively in China. A southern California native, Brackmann in Venice, California, and spends a lot of time in Beijing, China. Rock Paper Tiger is her first novel.
Object lessons in human cruelty (2009.06): Wu Fei, an essayist and educator, uses the inclusion of Schindler's List in a middle school textbook as the starting point for a discussion about the dehumanizing effect of on-screen killing, from televised executions intended to calm the anger of the public, to war movies that feature graphic violence.
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