Jun 22, 2010
Correspondent in Shanghai seeks full-time news assistant. Correspondent working for a range of foreign media, including the UK Daily Mail, the Guardian, Wallpaper and Danwei seeks a full-time news assistant. Responsibilities include fixing interviews, translation, coming up with original ideas and developing contacts and sources. Travel within China will be required on occasion. Fluent written
Mar 17, 2010
Just received this Shanghai Expo-related job offer. The person will be responsible for the production of press materials, audiovisual reports and web contents, as well as advising with the digital communication strategy. Language: Chinese (mother tongue), English (fluent), Spanish (not 100% necessary, but highly appreciated). Training: Ideally, a journalist, broadcast or communications degree. Background: Three
Feb 23, 2009
This being Oscars season, here is a remarkable 1935 Russian Regiment sports trophy from Shanghai that just sold on Ebay to someone in the Russian Federation. Measuring 3.7/8″ (inches) highs, 1.5/8″ in diameter and weighing 37grams or 1.1/4ozs, the trophy sold for 1,451 pounds. According to the seller, the flag seal in enamel is taken
Dec 8, 2008
China Economic Review, a business magazine with offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing (read online here), is seeking a full-time staff writer to be based in Shanghai. Responsibilities include: – Generating story ideas and following up on leads- Writing and researching stories for print and online – Some proofreading/copyediting The candidate should be willing to
Aug 8, 2008
I highly recommend Dvir Bar-Gal‘s entertaining and informative walking tours of Jewish Shanghai. You will see a side of Shanghai that most people don’t know exists and gain a greater understanding of the city’s past. Dvir is working to preserve old parts of Shanghai, something that interests too few people. Old Maps: Paul French, a
Aug 6, 2008
Dvir Bar-Gal offers highly entertaining and informative walking tours of Jewish Shanghai. You will see a side of Shanghai that most people don’t know exists. Dvir is a Shanghai-based Israel-born journalist who has dedicated himself to saving the building, memories and trying to build a memorial to the Jews of Shanghai. He has collected for
Jun 23, 2008
The Internet – and Web 2.0 tools in particular – are extremely well suited to language teaching, explains Ken Carroll, co-founder of Chinesepod.com in this video. Carroll’s Shanghai-based company (which I use to learn Mandarin) employs Web 2.0 methods to teach Chinese and a growing range of other languages. To see why Carroll thinks Web
May 20, 2008
The Pacific Ocean appeared to protect China from the Twitter craze hitting the US and Europe over the last year. No more! (Note for Luddite friends: Twitter is a San Francisco micro-blogging phenome that has thousands of people sending 160 character sms messages to each other. It is weird, yes, but also somewhat addictive.) China
May 3, 2008
Met with Dan Washburn and Kenneth Tan of the Shanghaiist this morning for brunch. Dan, a former newspaper writer in America’s Bible belt, came to China in 2002 and started an urban blog called Shanghai Diaries. Seeing the popularity of the site – and lack of such a site for Shanghai – Washburn approached the
May 2, 2008
The primary contributor to the popular Shanghaiist blog, Kenneth Tan also runs a men’s underwear store out of a disused bomb shelter in Shanghai’s French Concession. Tan’s shop, Manifesto.com.cn, recently opened another outlet near the Forbidden in Beijing. Singaporean-born, Tan has been in Shanghai since 2003.
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
