Elena Favilli

The death of qualified economists in China

From Anti’s English Blog: AEB: 2005 is an eventful year for Chinese’s mainstream economists, who have been plunged into stern criticism both from the public and on the Internet. Reflection on the current status of China’s economics may lead to a retrospect of China’s reform and policy. Therefore China Business Times (CBT) had an interview […]

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The Woman Taxi Driver

From Sinosplice: The other day I got in a taxi to discover that my driver was a pleasant middle-aged woman. Female taxi drivers are not exceedingly rare in Shanghai, but they’re not common, either. I was feeling gregarious, so I started chatting her up. (That’s one of the things I love about China barring language […]

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Beijing stores to display air quality stats

From Xinhua: BEIJING, Nov. 10 — The Sanitation Bureau of Beijing’s Haidian District announced on November 6 that, from the next day onward, the area’s busiest supermarkets and department stores would display real time information on their indoor air quality during holidays and at weekends, the first initiative of its kind. Zheng Yang, from the […]

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Culling the Chickens of Heishan

From EastSouthWestNorth: Translation of a Southern Metropolis Daily article of what culling looks from the viewpoint of the people involved, including many photographs. On October 28, chickens began to die in Jiangtai village, Badaohao town, Heishan county, Jinzhou City, Liaoning province. On November 1, Liaoning province made a preliminary determination that this was avian flu. […]

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Excited and Wary, Investors Look at China – John Markoff

From The New York Times: When Joe Schoendorf, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, was in Shanghai a few years ago to hear a pitch from a Chinese start-up company, he sensed something familiar. He interrupted the meeting, walked to the window and pulled back the curtains. “What are you looking for?” he remembers the would-be […]

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