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We need love, not more money – Zhang Lijia
Love in China is complicated, and often disguised in numbers, explains author Zhang Lijia on this Valentines’ Day on her weblog. “We need more love, not more money.”Read More →
Shift from export to domestic consumption needed – Shaun Rein
With the export industry in peril yet again, China’s government needs to focus on its assets back home, domestic consumption, tells business analyst Shaun Rein to the McClatchy Newspapers. Rising wages are needed to boost economic activity.
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Prostitution in China – Zhang Lijia
Author Zhang Lijia reviews the novel Paying for It by Canadian comic artist Chester Brown on prostitution, but gets nicely sidetracked into her own upcoming novel on prostitution in China.Read More →
China’s angry bulls – Zhang Lijia
The village of Wukan was one of the latest high-profile uprisings of an increasingly better educated and world-savvy class of migrants. In The Diplomat celebrity author Zhang Lijia analyses why China’s ‘peasants’ will get their rights too.Read More →
China: one of the most indebted countries in the world – Victor Shih
The anti-China commercial by Michigan Republican Pete Hoekstra contained so many mistakes, it takes a row of experts to set the record straight. In The New Yorker financial expert Victor Shih looks at the suggestions China is running away with US money.Read More →
Housing: solid as a bank – Shaun Rein
Stories about the collapsing real estate market in China might often miss the point. Housing is often the only place for increasingly wealthy Chinese to invest their money, tell business analyst Shaun Rein in CNN.Read More →
What do Chinese tourists want? – Shaun Rein
The world’s tourism industry looks at Chinese tourists to offset an expected drop in visitors from Europe. But here is the dilemma, writes business analyst Shaun Rein in CNBC, talking to a hotelier in Thailand: what the Chinese tourists want is very different from what the Europeans want.Read More →
What makes Chinese millionaires different – Rupert Hoogewerf
Chinese growing number of millionaires are a different breed compared to those in other parts of the world, tells Rupert Hoogewerf or Hurun, composer of the China Rich List to ABC from Australia.Read More →
Vandalism in Beijing – Paul French
A fuming Paul French reports on his website about the upcoming destruction of the Beijing house of Liang Sicheng, a famous architect. Paul French: I cannot bring myself to write too much about the destruction at Chinese New Year of Liang Sicheng’s house. Liang (below) was an incredible architect famously offeredRead More →
Democracy does suit the Chinese – Zhang Lijia
Author Zhang Lijia visited Taiwan for the first time and was pleasantly surprised. One conclusion: democracy is not against the character of the Chinese, as leaders on the mainland sometimes suggest, she explains on her weblog.Read More →
Locusts and running dogs in Hong Kong – Zhang Lijia
Celebrity author Zhang Lijia dives on her weblog into the argument between Chinese from Hong Kong and those on the mainland, who have been denouncing each other, calling the mainlanders ‘locusts’, while professor Kong Qingsheng from Peking University called the Hongkongnese ‘running dogs’.Read More →
What did Starbucks do right in China? – Shaun Rein
Starbucks turned a nation of tea drinkers into coffee lovers. Business analyst Shaun Rein explains in CNBC what Starbucks did right to succeed in China: they went local.Read More →