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From the Far Eastern Economic Review, via A Glimpse of the World: If you want to know what the world thinks about China’s economy, best keep track of what the typical international corporate executive is reading. For the past year or two he has been reading some very provocative books about the mainland business climate. […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Given the global admiration that China’s economic ascendancy inspires abroad these days, it’s easy to forget the mainland is run by a one-party state with a near-obsessive need to control sensitive information. It is both a 21st century economic phenomenon“and a massive surveillance state. And if you doubt that Big Brother lives […]
Read MoreThe New York Times Book Review reviewed The Dissident, a novel by Nell Freudenberger, about a Chinese avant-garde artist who moves to Los Angeles: The characters in Nell Freudenberger’s first novel, “The Dissident,” likable and sympathetic though most of them are, are nonetheless fools of various kinds, victims above all of their own willful or […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via ABC News: The Chinese movie “Sanxia Haoren,” or “Still Life,” on Saturday took this year’s Golden Lion, the top award at the Venice Film Festival. The award to Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke‘s film was unexpected, and trumped such candidates for the top award as Emilio Estevez’ “Bobby,” about the assassination of […]
Read MoreIn the New York Times, Ross Terrill writes about the complexities of economic reform in China: China’s advance toward global economic pre-eminence appears irresistible. Having recently surpassed Britain, France and Italy, its economy is now the fourth-largest in the world, growing, Beijing says, at the startling rate of 10 percent a year. Brokers in Hong […]
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