Caving to online male backlash that included a threatened boycott, Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com announced that it would scrap its November 11 “Singles Day” shopping festival collaboration with comedian Yang Li (杨笠, Yáng Lì)....
By inadvertently “saying the quiet part out loud,” three recent media gaffes have touched off public debate on questions usually left unspoken. For some Chinese social media users, these blunders have provided an opportunity to...
Surveillance in Chinese cities is ubiquitous, with highly visible security cameras trained on most every intersection, public space, and building, but over the past decade, it has been seeping into the countryside as well. In an...
While President Xi Jinping’s austerity measures have been curtailing official extravagance,...
From BBC News: Chinese shoppers continued to spend at record levels in April, a sign that stronger domestic demand may be able to offset a slowdown in exports. Retail sales rose at an annual rate of 22% last month, the fastest...
Retail sales in China grew rapidly in recent years, and luxury goods were also a boom market, which attracted global brands to enter into the market. From Financial Times: In the two decades since China opened up its economy, luxury brands have piled into the world’s most populous nation in anticipation of a rapidly expanding […]
From the New York Times: Not long ago, shopping in China consisted mostly of lining up to entreat surly clerks to accept cash in exchange for ugly merchandise that did not fit. But now, Chinese have started to embrace America’s modern “shop till you drop” ethos and are in the midst of a buy-at-the-mall frenzy. […]
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