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Danwei 4th anniversary T-shirt give-awayPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 4:40 PM
 Danwei in its youth Our first post was published at 7:07pm Beijing time on October 24, 2003. It was about Chiang Kaishek's famous wife, Song Meiling, who died on October 24, 2003 in New York at the age of 105. To celebrate Danwei's four years of publishing, we are giving away four T-shirts from Plastered. Plastered has been has been producing and selling T-shirt from their hutong store in Beijing since 2005. The T-shirts feature lively interpretations of old Beijing designs, from subway tickets and thermos flasks to to propaganda posters and whack-shack barber poles, and come in a rage of fitted styles for men, women and kids. To win a T-shirt, you have to leave a comment to this post, explaining why Beijing does not have a First Ring Road. The Danwei Central Committee will go through the answers and decide which one is worth winning based a number of criteria — the funniest, the most historically accurate, or the quirkiest etc. You do not need to leave your real name in the comments, but you do need to leave a working email address in the correct field. It won't be published, but we need it to get hold of you if you win. We will announce the winners on Monday afternoon; the submission deadline is noon on Monday. Fine print: Anyone anywhere in the world is welcome to apply, but you will have to go to the Plastered store in Beijing to choose and get your T-shirt. As this is an unscientifically-judged competition, we will publish all entries as they are submitted. UPDATE: This competition is now closed, winners will be announced today, Monday October 29 |
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Comments on Danwei 4th anniversary T-shirt give-away
the first ring road is actually the forbidden city's wall
The first ring road is inside Maggies.
Because ZhongNanHai is too small for a road to circle it, and the Politiburo is too big to have a road bear it's name tag.
Oh well, at least I'm the quickest :P
Beijing doesn't have a first ring road because the second ring road was built from the ruins of walls safeguarding the realm within,which is too precious to pave the way for the imagined first ring.
happy birthday Danwei, and I wish you many more years of success (sounds as ceremonial as a Chinese conference, but it's a real wish).
The elusive First Ring Road of Beijing, sometimes referred to as the "Sting Ring Road", can only be found the morning after a night of 麻辣 hot pot and Er Guo Tou.
Because the First Ring Road is in Mordor?
Well I always assumed that the innermost ring was, well, er, how can I put this, that of the supreme leader, The fundamental centre of the city the country and the universe.
And about the quiz...
Doesn't have a first ringroad "yihuan" because that's a bad word in Chinese (just a guess).
The One Ring was considered a product of feudal and superstitious fantasy, despite similarities with the foully polluted and corrupt evil eastern empire in which it was forged. Aspects of the palantir -harnessing scrying technology were adopted by the Net Nanny, however.
because it break the historic and cultural contest of the old city. It was definitely plan in the urban planning in 1992, but the ring cross some famous and valuable remnant in Beijing, so it exists and lasts in mystery.
The first ring is just around the forbidden city and is called "nei huan?" Just my guess... Happy 4th birthday!
The First Ring Road was originally the socialist road to happiness. Since it only allowed people to go in circles rather than go anywhere in their lives, they closed it down and took it off the maps.
Happy Birthday Danwei from all of us at Shanghaiist!
Many more great years to come!
Actually,the 3rd Ring Road is the first ring road of the city according to some historical maps and archives. Then,the 2nd Ring Road came out as the subway line 2 completed. No First Ring Road (FRR) in Beijing is one opinion of those arguements.
Some others insist that the FRR which also called NeiHuan is composed of Guang'an Street,Dongdan Street,Ping'an Street and Xidan Street.
Oh there is a first ring road alright . . . it's just published on blogspot, which is why you can't find it. You can find it if you use a VPN.
That bastard of a emperor Chianlong played a joke on me. He told me were the first ring road was, so I went on it (while drunk), took a few turns and ended up in 2007...
Now I can't find the stupid thing again, so I'm stuck in 2007...
Someone please point me to the damn 1st ring road, I hate 2007.
It was known all around that Lily had Jim's ring.
Beijing does have a first ring road but it's a state secret. The road is underground and encircles Zhongnanhai. It's used by leaders for late night forays into the Forbidden City and VIP performances in the new National Theater.
Well, Well, Well, Happy Celebrations!
Beijing doesn't have a First Ring Road only for pure, and straightforward, ideological reasons; you don't want to create the situation that simple-minded political analysists, cultural critics, nor foreign journalists, criticize the system with obvious remarks like "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." Therefore it is much more safe to distract them and say "One Dream to rule them all,..."
To the best of our knowledge there is no first ring road (FRR). Nothing ever happedened on the FRR anyway... For instance no, repeat: no, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader has drove on the FRR. Any account that Lin Biao was ever seen on the FRR is a packet of lies fabricated by moscow revisionists (MR)! Lin Biao was never killed on the FRR by Unit 8341, never!. Any well informed socialist (i.e. CCP member) know that Lin Biao has been killed in a plane crash while fleeing (cowardly) the motherland to join MR. CCP records show a clear account that there has never been any FRR and there will never be one!
有一环啊！一环套一环。
The pinyin for first ring road (一环-- yihuan) is the same as the one for 遗患 (calamity) or 贻患 (sowing the seeds of disaster). It would make for countless jokes and seriously bad fengshui if Zhongnanhai would be located within 'yihuan'...
Swept up in the political maelstrom of the Cultural Revolution, First Ring Road was branded a "capitalist roader" when he was accused of having an undesirable class background by Third Ring Road. Leaving his wife, Chang'an Ave to appeal his case with Party leaders, First Ring Road was sent down to the countryside to be re-educated through hard labor along side rural peasants. Second Ring Road felt guilty for not coming to his friend and comrade's defense against Third Ring Road's baseless accusations, so when First Ring Road died in a mining accident, Second Ring Road married Chang'an Ave and had a child, Subway Line 2.
Beijing does have a 1st Ring Road. But it is not called that because the name in Chinese sounds unlucky.
The 1st Ring Road is the road around Tian-an-men Square.
Hence, the 2nd Ring Road was named the 2nd Ring Road because it IS the 2nd ring road.
When Mao's standing on top of the Tian'anmen rostrum in 1949 with China's great architect, Liang Sicheng, Mao denoted that isn't it a wonderful view if one could see thousands of chimneys and plants from there in the near future...so, the first ring is not a city road but what orgnized a network of small working units surrounding prosperous plants at the very beginning....
I want a tee shirt, I will proudly wear it during my China trips as well as back here in Europe.
Crossing fingers....
Charlus
Following a certain theme that has developed:
Smeagol found it at the bottom of a river while fishing. After it had corrupted him and he became Gollum, Bilbo Baggins stole it from him and passed it on to his nephew Frodo, who is now currently on a mission to cast it back into the fires of Changbaishan whence it came. Have you not seen the Ring Wraiths on the prowl?
Oh shi-. There's no way I can get a free T-shirt now. These are great, and I imagine that Joel et al. will have trouble sorting through the top few contenders.
The 遗患路 does in fact exist, but it is in fact an 遗患路. In the event that Beijing happens to eat some nuclear retaliation or otherwise a nuclear first strike, the 遗患路 complex under Qianmen will be activated and the leaders in Zhongnanhai will be sequestered underground, along with many nubile women...
ah screw this, this take off Strangelove isn't funny. :/
because it's not a single road...just follow the ring of police to find the first ring.
why should beijing have a first ring road?
The 1st ring road is the extended Chang An Dajie--ideally extended beyond the actual existing road surface and encircling the globe.
Happy birthday Danwei! Enjoyed reading your stuff very much...
The first ring is reserved...but only important to those who are anxious to display that they have 'arrived'.
Danwei is always outside the first ring, wherever it is cast, since it is always in the company of those who are 'becoming'...being created...in ring zero.
low key, top things in China always should be low key.
The number ‘1’ in Chinese actually is a homonym for the character 'to want' and ‘castrated dog’ leaving officials no alterative but to divert funds previously earmarked for road construction to animal control.
除了环，我们还需要一个靶心。啪啪
Oh, it's there. It's just so covered with feces and self-immolating F-L-G practitioners that you can't see it.
China: You want first ring road? I have first ring road, look-a look-a!
Confused Westerner: Where's the first ring road? I don't see it.
China: Oh, I no have first ring road. I have second ring road. First ring road is no good, second ring road is the best, zui hao de.
Confused Westerner: So you don't have a first ring road?
China: If you want I can get...
Confused Weterner: How do I know if I want it or not? Can I see it or can you at least tell me where it is?
China: How much you pay?
Confused Westerner: Nevermind, I give up.
China: How come you no like me?
Everyone knows walking in circles is a waste of time, yet here the way it is.
>>>>>>Happy Anniversary, DANWEI
People find it poor form to answer on the first ring anyway, and beijingers do not differ. Hence there is no first ring road, but there is Second, Third, Answer Machine, and Sorry-this-line-has-been-disconnected-please-try-another-number road.
Because the higher the number, the more prestigious it is. The Modern International Metropolis of Beijing is far too important to have any mere ones on their street names!
haha, more good ones. Anyways, happy birthday Danwei! You're..., well, you're still #2 after Roland Soong.
Beijing does not have a First Ring Road because you can't make a left on everyone's favorite traffic funnel, Chang'an Jie. The next time you're stuck on it, waiting for the black Audi motorcade for the leader of Benin or the Comoros to whoosh by, ask the cab driver to turn down the slurpy POW-POW-POW! radio soap opera, and discuss the merits of creating a circular route in heart of town, or at least adding a left-turn arrow between Fuxingmen and Jianguomen. The genius "diaotou" light in front of the train station doesn't count. Meibanfa.
1 Beijing does have a 1st ring road in the old days,but as the develpment goes on,we need more spaces and roads,so they turned down the inner and outer wall of imperial palace.then now we can't find the 1st ring road,and it was replaced by a relatively larger road--2nd ring road.
2 The Chang’an Avenue is the 1st ring road,though it's not that cirle-like.Evidence, we got No 1 bus there :)
3 Some of the senior citizens told me that the road around the Forbidden City is the 1st ring road.Here i can't consult the dictionary,so i asked some ppl instead.
happy bday,and i want to get that shirt with your signiture on it,ha!
have fun
Subway line 13 felt it needed the extra 1.
Happy birthday!
1- Hu's on first?
2- The traditional Chinese method of counting ring roads resembles that of Americans counting the floors of a building, where you count the ground floor as 1.
The so-called "First Ring Road" should be the central region around the Forbidden City. We did not name it as "First Ring Road", because the road had had its previous name, we do not want to change its name to a new name in terms of tradition, I guess.
谁赢了啊？公布一下嘛。