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Buddhist Promotion Lands Tea Company in Hot Water

A tea company is in hot water after Shenzhen officials deemed its latest marketing campaign to be “borderline” illegal. Hey Tea (喜茶, xǐ chá), a popular national beverage chain, recently partnered with the Jingdezhen China...

China Braces For End Of World

With the apocalypse now less than ten days away, China has been joining in the global festival of panic, resignation and denial at the imminent extinction of humanity. At China Real Time Report, Chao Deng described some Chinese...

How Mao Became a Hipster Icon

While the fall of Bo Xilai and suppression of leftist revivalism shows a significant dip in Mao’s posthumous political standing, he remains, for some, a potent symbolic alternative to the country’s social and...

MIT Report Debunks China Energy Myth

From MIT News: A detailed analysis of powerplants in China by MIT researchers debunks the widespread notion that outmoded energy technology or the utter absence of government regulation is to blame for that country’s...

Video: Sketching a Future

As the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing moves away from its previous focus of producing state propaganda art, the school is embracing a more liberal and experimental approach. China is in the midst of a commercial art...

China’s Youth Define “Cool” – Jeff Smith and Jean Wylie

From The China Business Review (link): A new survey may help companies capture the hearts, minds, and wallets of Chinese youth. Imagine a population roughly the size of the Netherlands’, made up of a generation of only children. Add the words “newly rich,” “fashion-savvy,” and “young,” and you have just described China’s millions of university […]

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