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The latest Biganzi post from Jonathan Ansfield: “There’s no denomination and no real issuer, but it’s money.” Vouchers from the supermarket chain Trust-Mart (•ΩÂèà§ö) have become a favored currency of petty corruption in Fujian, says a local entrepreneur who carries a stack on him. In the course of a recent interview about unrelated topics, by […]
Read MoreA factory for Changhong electronics in Mianyang, by The Gonger
Read MoreGlobal Voices translates reactions from netizens to news about the rapidly increasing food prices: “Recently, can you afford meat?” Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao asked when he visited a group of poor people living in an old residential area of Beijing. On the very next day, the National Bureau of Statistics reported that China’s October inflation […]
Read MoreIn the latest in the New York Times’ series Choking on Growth, Howard French writes about the ways that local officials are undercutting national goals to reduce energy consumption: Beijing has so fixated on the 20 percent goal that it has become the centerpiece of its overall strategy to reduce pollution in addition to consumption, […]
Read MorePeter Hessler’s latest dispatch in the New Yorker tackles driving in China. Unfortunately the website only has an abstract which doesn’t come close to capturing Hessler’s descriptive abilities: Letter from China about the writer’s experiences driving in China. Writer recalls his first car accident in China, claiming it wasn’t his fault. He’d rented a Volkswagen […]
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