Currency of the Week: Panbucks
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
real estate market
Cartoon: Marital Separation and Real Estate Speculation
Authorities in Shanghai have recently cracked down on rumors of tightening real estate...
Censors Hit Family Planning Debate, Real Estate Rumors
China’s rulers are keen to showcase their efforts to give the people a say in government...
Minitrue: 21 Rules on Coverage of the Two Sessions
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Leta Hong Fincher on Women in Today’s China
On her blog China Law and Policy, Elizabeth Lynch interviews Leta Hong Fincher about her book...
Cities Struggle to Spur Real Estate Sales as Prices Slide
After years of stunning growth, China’s real estate market is slowing down. In response to...
Minitrue: Real Estate, Finance, Harvard Politics
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
CDT Bookshelf: Interview with Leta Hong Fincher
Leta Hong Fincher’s first book Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed...
Video: “Who Made Us the Proletariat?”
Why would a cheeky cartoon about the real estate market be deleted from all domestic Chinese...
Minitrue: VPN Sales and the Property-less
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Minitrue: Mistresses, Housing, and Handshakes
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Sensitive Words: Zhou Yongkang, Media, Shade
As of December 17, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
China’s Gender Imbalance and the Real Estate Market
An article on Quartz looks at how the one-child policy, and accompanying gender imbalance, is...
Author Addresses China’s “Leftover Women”
The issue of so-called leftover women, or women who remain unmarried in their late 20s, is again in the media spotlight thanks to a bilingual book by Joy Chen titled, “Do Not Marry Before Age 30.” American Public...
Bachelor Padding
In Foreign Policy, Roseann Lake looks at the complicated social and economic factors that have led to China’s real estate bubble. She focuses on the pressure on single men to own property in order to attract a potential...
Chinese Developers Wary at Land Auctions
As criticism of land grabs and forced demolitions continues, the Wall Street Journal reports that despite signs of a rebound in the property market, Chinese developers are skittish at land auctions: A number of cities, including...
China Has Three Biggest Increases In Global Office Costs
Bloomberg reporter Kelvin Wong sheds light on real estate prices in China’s first-tier cities by comparing major cities’ office space prices. Business districts in Beijing and Guangzhou had the biggest increases in...
CDT Money: Indicators: Slowdown?
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a new column, CDT Money, a once-a-week roundup of business and economic news from China. We’ll be giving an overview of business and economic trends from the...
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