Beijing Beat blog with Mark Godfrey

Beijing Beat

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Listening to Asian music, in Asia
By mark_godfrey on 7/26/2008 2:28 AM

Rock-focused Pilot Records’ Zeng Yu subsidises CD sales with studio hire and production work for pop stars

By mark_godfrey on 7/21/2008 2:40 AM

Beijing conservationists are closing the door when the horse has bolted maybe, but they're at least trying

By mark_godfrey on 7/12/2008 9:06 PM

Beijing's excess of English-language glossies filled with meaningless pap and consumer goods advertorials just gets... more excessive

By mark_godfrey on 7/12/2008 9:01 PM

Beijing gets oceans of verbal diarrohea from corporations not wanting to say anything that could be interpreted as hurtful to local government

By mark_godfrey on 7/8/2008 4:40 AM

Beijing Pop Festival is latest in a line of outdoor music events to be cancelled by authorities nervous about Olympics, crowd control. We talked with Yang Yu, impressario and local hard rock luminary

By mark_godfrey on 7/2/2008 12:57 AM

We talk with the manager of the Chinese website helping local fans find friends for concerts, art exhibitions

By mark_godfrey on 6/26/2008 12:59 AM
There’s also the signs of some new, smart tactics in the organization’s offensive against Baidu
By mark_godfrey on 6/24/2008 1:35 AM
Under pressure to shut down counterfeiters, shops at home, China is increasingly exporting the problem
By mark_godfrey on 6/20/2008 11:09 PM
It takes 54 hours of lessons to get your license, but everyone wants to get behind the wheel in traffic-jammed Beijing,
By mark_godfrey on 6/17/2008 10:50 PM
Local fixations on economic growth leaves little for preserving a rich local musical culture