Translation: Chinese “Dolce Vita” on Costa Cruise
Cruising has come to China, and international ocean liners are hoping to get in early on the...
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Rich Chinese Seek Spiritual Fulfillment
The Wall Street Journal’s Wei Gu reports that some of China’s wealthy increasingly...
Call for Cull of Officials to Curb Waste Censored
The Wall Street Journal’s James T. Areddy reports that Beijing’s campaign against...
New York Times Chinese Site “Under Review”
The New York Times has reported aggressively on the conflict between business and journalism in...
Li Xiaolin and the Amazing Chipmunk-Colored Dreamcoat
Not for the first time, princeling businesswoman Li Xiaolin has come under fire for her choice of...
Shark Fin Victory May Offer Hope for Elephants
On the China in Africa Podcast, Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden and Huang Hongxiang gloomily...
Why Chinese Have Shiny Nails After Visiting Showrooms
With millions of Chinese becoming first-time car owners, Bloomberg News describes the lengths...
How to Photograph a Chinese Official
Chinese officials’ sensitivity about appearance has only intensified since sharp-eyed netizens started bringing down officials caught wearing—or even not wearing—luxury watches and other incriminating baubles. Such visible...
Bikes for Bonuses as China’s Wealthy Reminisce
Once one of four symbols of modern living in China, alongside wristwatches, sewing machines and radios, the bicycle’s position as a status symbol took a battering with the advent of widespread car ownership. Its fall from...
In the Lap of Luxury Goods
Kevin Yeoh, a former Beijing-based fund manager with AMP Capital, sees potential profit lying in China’s luxury market. From Phillip Wen at Sydney Morning Herald: Yeoh warns that any sort of direct play requires research,...
Chinese Market Slowdown Impacts Global Brands
The global economic slowdown, especially in China, is impacting global luxury brands. Burberry’s reported a 20% drop in shares this week. From Forbes: It comes as no surprise to anyone following global markets that China...
Scenes from China’s Consumerist Revolution
A precarious economic outlook and efforts to stem officials’ conspicuous consumption have prompted fears for the health of China’s luxury market. Sales of prestigious Moutai liquor have indeed drooped, but Hermes and...
The Stylish Side of China
Although some analysts are worried about a slowdown in China’s economy, including the luxury industry, some indicators tell a different story. As huge numbers of people, white-collar women in typical, have just entered the...
For Leaders, Fear at the Top?
In a New York Times Opinion, Harvard’s Roderick MacFarquhar writes that the Bo Xilai scandal – and the revelations about the wealth and lifestyle of his family and the families of other “princelings”...
Titanic Replica to be Made In China
The recent 3D re-release of James Cameron’s Titanic has been an enormous success in China, despite controversy over a prudishly deleted scene and some of the ensuing press coverage. The film took $67 million at the Chinese...
Hollywood and The Bo Xilai Saga
With China embroiled in a political scandal fit for a Hollywood thriller, and Hollywood eager to tap into China’s movie market as never before, The Atlantic’s Damien Ma takes a stab at what Bo Xilai: The Movie might...
China’s Gold Rush Explained
David Pierson of The Los Angeles Times writes about the biggest driver behind China’s emergence as a major player in the global demand for gold, the Chinese consumer, which has turned to gold not only as an age-old status...
China’s Hidden Wealth Feeds an Income Gap
For the New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow looks at the role of the gray economy in obscuring China’s economic figures as the prodigious spending habits of the country’s wealthy elite attract international...
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