Currency of the Week: Panbucks
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
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Post-Decline Weibo: Subdued Big Vs and Brother Orange
At China Real Time, Josh Chin reports on liberal businessman Wang Gongquan’s public...
Petitioners Swamp New Legal Ombudsman Pan Shiyi
South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler reports that real estate tycoon and social media...
Netizen Voices: CCTV Reins in Pan Shiyi
Chinese real estate mogul and popular Weibo personality Pan Shiyi has not been afraid to speak out...
China’s Real Estate Bubble, and Hopes for Democracy
For CBS’ 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl visits China to investigate the “largest housing bubble in human history” and explore ghost cities, such as Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and housing and shopping developments that...
Mo Yan Wants to Buy a House in Beijing. Can He?
When asked by a Xinhua journalist what he would do with his prize money of RMB7.5 mil, Nobel...
China's New Unofficial Currency: Panbi（潘币）
As Steve Jobs’ death triggered enormous reactions from Chinese netizens, the Beijing real estate tycoon Pan Shiyi has also joined the wave by posting the following tweet on his microblog: @Pan Shiyi: Apple’s board of directors...
Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi: Beijing’s It-couple
From The Times: It’s Sunday night in Beijing, and a private lift sweeps me up to the 32nd-floor penthouse of Jianwai Soho tower: the family apartment of Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi, China’s most visible and flamboyant property...
Cursing Comments Forced Celebrities to Shut Down Blogs – Josie Liu’s blog
In a wave, celebrities are shutting down blogs, to shy away from foul language. Will this “embolden” the government in cleaning up the Internet? From Josie Liu’s blog (photo: Beijing real estate tycoon Pan Shiyi, via Josie Liu’s blog): In a recent blog entry, famous real estate entrepreneur Pan Shiyi (ÊΩòÁü≥±π) called on blog readers […]
Together with Migrants: Chinese Contemporary Art and Social Criticism – NY Arts
NY Arts Magazine has a feature story about the Together with Migrants festival held this past summer in Beijing: Hundreds of migrant laborers packed the exhibition hall at Jianwai SOHO provided by culture-savvy real-estate magnate Pan Shiyi. Many dressed in their finest attire, especially the young ones who aimed to show the assembled hordes of […]
Zha Jianying: The Turtles
The New Yorker has an article, titled the Turtles, which has no web link, about Beijing real estate tycoons Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin. Sam Crane has an interesting post about the article on his blog Useless Tree.
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