Challenging China: Ren Zhiqiang
As part of a series profiling wealthy businesspeople who are pushing for social or political...
Jul 6, 2016
As part of a series profiling wealthy businesspeople who are pushing for social or political...
Dec 19, 2014
In an interview with The New York Times’ Ian Johnson, anthropologist John Osburg, author of...
Jan 24, 2014
Ron Gluckman profiles Richard Robinson, a serial entrepreneur who gave up his globetrotting...
Aug 26, 2013
At least one million cockroaches escaped a farm in Jiangsu province earlier this month after...
Aug 15, 2013
Amid China’s booming tourism industry, The New York Times looks at the number of foreign...
Jul 15, 2013
At The Atlantic, American documentary photographer Michael Steverson unveils a photo essay on the ancient yet dying Chinese art of cormorant fishing, featuring two elderly brothers who supplement their income from fishing by...
Mar 26, 2013
At The Wall Street Journal, Bob Davis describes how prestige and security are driving fresh graduates towards jobs in government or state-owned enterprises, rather than private companies or entrepreneurship: Over the past...
Apr 13, 2012
April Rabkin reviews Michelle Dammon Loyalka’s new book, ‘Eating Bitterness’, for the San Francisco Chronicle: Being a migrant in China is a bit like being an illegal immigrant in California. Essentially, when...
Nov 28, 2011
With demand for wine in China ripening – both for domestically produced and, more dramatically, imported wines – one of the country’s most recognizable faces is taking aim at the market. From The Wall Street...
May 13, 2011
In Time, Jeffrey Wasserstrom reviews the new book by Zha Jianying, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China, which he says, “covers all the bases” for someone trying to understand contemporary China:...
Sep 7, 2010
Global Post profiles Zhang Yue, an entrepreneur who is working on developing an air conditioner that is good for the planet:
Aug 3, 2010
A report on Danwei looks at the individual entrepreneurs and small companies from China who are trying to strike it rich in Africa: Although multi-billion natural resource deals dominate the headlines, as many as 80 per cent of...
Feb 28, 2010
Forbes has profiles of the nine young entrepreneurs to watch: By 2015 there will be 500 million people under age 30 in China–roughly the population of the entire European Union. And they aren’t idolizing Lei Feng, a...
Dec 19, 2009
From The Sunday Times: In the late 18th century, China was probably the biggest economy on earth. When British envoys came to plead for trade, the Emperor Qianlong dismissed them grandly. But China fell into revolutions, war,...
Oct 15, 2009
Ole Schell has filmed a documentary on “Win in China,” a reality show in which competitors showcase their entrepreneurial savvy and business knowledge to vie for prize money. Dustin Wright from The China Beat spoke...
Aug 10, 2009
A new documentary, Win in China, documents the world’s largest business plan competition, to examine entrepreneurship in China. From the film’s website: Given unprecedented access to the TV shows producers,...
May 10, 2009
Sarah Lacy of TechCrunch is reporting from China for a new book on entrepreneurship: China has just exploded with entrepreneurship, funding and economic opportunity over the last five years or so, and unlike most of the world...
Feb 24, 2009
Bloomberg writes about jailed tycoon Huang Guangyu, of Gome Electronics, who is being investigated for share manipulation, and the fate of China’s wealthiest entrepreneurs as the economic crisis hits: During China’s...