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Top-100 best selling Chinese artists – Rupert Hoogewerf
The founder of Hurun, China’s rich list Rupert Hoogewerf published a list of best-selling Chinese artists of the past 5000 years. “What is remarkable is that 34 of the Top 100 are alive today,” Hoogewerf tells in China.org.Read More →
China’s changing dreams – Shaun Rein
Dreams about the future have been important for China and the Chinese over the past decades, but what they dream about has been changing dramatically. Business analyst Shaun Rein discussed those changing dream with Daftblogger, and the increased search for quality.Read More →
Vagina Monologues made it into Beijing – Zhang Lijia
The Vagina Monologues made it after a long time onto the stage at the China Media University, it would not be a piece for a mainstream Chinese theater. Author Zhang Lijia visited the first performance, and had a great time, she writes on her weblog.Read More →
Australia goes easy on China’s military rise
In its 2013 Defence white paper Australia is not seeing China as an adversary, but picks a position between the two power blocks, the US and China, notes military analyst Wendell Minnick in Defense News. In China it sees “a strategic partner”.Read More →
How to pitch your China book to publishers – Paul French
Award winning author Paul French explains how to pitch your China book to publishers, and – even more important – which books on China you might as well not write anymore, for the Asia SocietyRead More →
Edgar Best Fact Crime award for Paul French
Celebrity author Paul French flew out in person from Shanghai to receive in New York the prestigious Edgar Best Fact Crime award for his book “Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China. Report from CSmonitor.Read More →
Chinese brands fighting global heavyweights – Shaun Rein
Shanghaiist sat down with business analyst Shaun Rein to discuss wide-ranging changing trends in China, as Rein described in his book “The End of Cheap China”. For example, how are Chinese brands going to fight the global heavyweights to make their markRead More →
Chen Guangcheng: far from fading away – Zhang Lijia
When Chinese dissidents moved in the past to the US, whatever influence they had in their home country would fade away. But the blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng is different, discovered author and friend Zhang Lijia in visits to his home town and in calls to the US, she writes in the New York Times. Read More →
China’s red flags in crisis management – Wendell Minnick
As the conflict about the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands heats up yet another time, it is useful to recognized the meaning of the signals Beijing is sending out. Military analyst Wendell Minnick picked up for Defense News some reading tips from Taiwanese Defense experts.Read More →
China stops subsidizing European and US economies – Shaun Rein
Low wages in the world’s factory floor China have been for decades a deflationary force in the global economy. But as labor costs rise in China, developed countries can no longer count on getting cheap products, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in Global Sources. “China will focus on high value-added products.Read More →
Doubling Apple stores is just not enough – Shaun Rein
Battling a slowdown in Apple’s China sales by doubling the number of outlets might just not be enough, tells retail analyst Shaun Rein in Bloomberg. Apple is facing “serious political headwinds”.Read More →
Will the Aussies go to war with China for a US doctrine? – Wendell Minnick
Military analyst Wendell Minnick discusses in Defense Newsthe emerging US “AirSea Battle doctrine and the so-called Asia Pivot, many in the Asia-Pacific are asking for clarification on a subject that could involve them in an unnecessary war with China.” A review of a paper by Benjamin Schreer, a senior analyst for Defence Strategy at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.Read More →