From Knowledge@Wharton, via YaleGlobal Online(link): Early this year, at a job fair held in Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian province in China, more than 50,000 positions designed to encourage farmers to move to urban areas went unfilled. In addition, of the more than 400 farmers who left their hometown of Qinghai last year to work […]
Read MoreFrom ISN Security Watch (link): “Business is business. We try to separate politics from business. Secondly I think the internal situation in the Sudan is an internal affair, and we are not in a position to impose upon them,” Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Zhou Wenzhong said in an interview with the New York Times on […]
Read MoreFrom NPR (link): Old Beijing was a city of unique sounds — sounds used to mark time, to advertise goods and services, or just to tickle the ear. In the run-up to the 2008 Olympics, Beijing is tearing down many of its historic districts to make way for high-rise apartments and office towers. In the […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Review (link): You have to hand it to Google; it knows how to make a big splash. When the doyen of search engines came to town to reinvent itself, no expense was spared. Booking the banquet hall of Beijing’s most famous five-star hotel, cramming it full of the cream of the IT world […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Review (link): Lao Ding, 40, a doctoral student at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), had never felt so embarrassed as he began working with a team of young researchers in their 20s in Beijing. Eager to bridge the generation gap and share common topics, Lao bought a DVD of The Promise and […]
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