Kate Zhao graduated from the Graduate School of Communication at Zhejiang University, with a major in cross-culture communication. She has worked as both a full-time and part-time business reporter at various Chinese media such as China Business, China Marketing, New Marketing, and 21st Century Business Herald. She also worked as a public relations manager for Crest brand at P&G Greater China in Guangzhou.
From the Washington Post: Most people in this country of 1.3 billion still do not own a car. For example, in Beijing, a city of 16 million people, there are just slightly more than 3 million cars. But car ownership in China has grown by 300 percent in just six years. The capital’s roads and […]
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, Howard French writes about the gaps in China between capitalism and communism, rich and poor, and urban and rural lives: At a casual glance, the giant boomtowns of the country’s east seem very much like first world cities, with the dizzyingly rapid proliferation of skyscrapers and expressways, shopping malls and […]
Read MoreThames Town, a British-style development outside Shanghai, by Marc van der Chijs
Read MoreThe Telegraph comments on Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s visit to China: Chinese goods have controlled American inflation while Chinese savings have financed American consumption. China’s demand for raw materials is not only underpinning world commodity prices: as the Chinese do not care whom they buy from and are happy to pay their cheques straight to […]
Read MoreAnother review of Jia Zhangke’s Still Life, which just opened in New York, from the New York Times: A meticulous record of a vanishing world — Mr. Jia’s cinematographer, Yu Lik-wai, surveys the wreckage with slow panning shots that evoke the horizontal expanse of Chinese scroll paintings — “Still Life” is an act of commemoration […]
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