The Economist highlights a new book on the scale and effects of subsidies to China’s state-owned enterprises, which its authors estimate amounted to more than $300 billion between 1985 and 2005: The Chinese government does...
Read MoreChina has become the world’s biggest market for personal computers according to IHS, with 69 million units shipped in 2012 compared with 66 million in the U.S.. From the BBC: Laptops are the fastest rising sector in...
Read MoreJiayang Fan, a rural-born Chinese girl who later left China for the United States, tells her life story as a girl in rural China under the one-child policy . From the New Yorker: In my kindergarten class of only children, we...
Read MoreAs the marriage market in China grows more competitive due to a surplus of men, some Chinese single ladies are starting to challenge the label of “leftover women”, a term used to describe unmarried women in their...
Read MoreAfter unexpectedly being invited to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral on Wednesday, journalist and historian Jonathan Mirsky recalled the four encounters that comprised his “little history” with the former prime...
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