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From the Economic Times (link): You’d be pretty happy if Yao Ming represented your brand, wouldn’t you? One of China’s most recognised and loved celebrities, and one of the few with global visibility as a basketball player for the Houston Rockets. So, if you were Gatorade’s marketing team and Yao was waving your beverage on […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): From the outside it does not look like much: the shell of a two-story brick building with scaffolding running up its sides and, on a drizzly winter day, a pair of construction workers kicking around in a courtyard littered with building materials. But 69 years ago the courtyard was […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian (link): Every year, 8.5 million Chinese peasants move into cities. Most of their destinations are mere specks on western maps, if they appear at all. But their populations put them on a par with some of the world’s megalopolises. Britain has five urban centres of more than a million people; China has […]
Read MoreFrom a Christian Science Monitor editorial (link): When Hu Jintao took China’s helm in 2003, his goal became social harmony. No wonder. Riots and protests, mostly by peasants, are up tenfold in 10 years. The Communist Party is now even citing Confucius to try to instill moral standards. Indeed, quotes from the ancient Chinese sage, […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): AFTER Ang Lee accepted his Oscar as best director for “Brokeback Mountain,” he was hailed by fellow Chinese in Hong Kong and his native Taiwan. Here in mainland China, the government-controlled English-language daily newspaper went so far as to call him the “pride of Chinese people all over the […]
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