The Economist: Xi Who Must Be Obeyed
Chinese President and CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping has made it onto the cover of The Economist...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 18, 2014
Chinese President and CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping has made it onto the cover of The Economist...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 3, 2014
Newly launched political news website ThePaper.cn (澎湃), part of Xi Jinping’s drive to up the...
by Samuel Wade | May 5, 2013
This week, Party general secretary and Chinese president Xi Jinping graced the cover of The Economist for the second time, accompanying a special feature on his “Chinese Dream” initiative. At South China Morning...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 19, 2012
In a Christmas special at The Economist, Gady Epstein explores China’s brush with democracy a hundred years ago, and the single shot that may have ended it. AT 10.40pm on March 20th 1913 a young man who represented one...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 22, 2012
Taiwanese authorities have refused to provide a visa for the Dalai Lama, who was due to address a women’s organisation there next month. From the AFP: The Taiwan chapter of the Federation of Business and Professional...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 28, 2012
Marking the first month of its dedicated China section and the recent christening of its ‘Analects’ blog, The Economist surveys its almost 170 years of China coverage: In December 1843, The Economist relayed its...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 29, 2011
McDonald’s hopes to double its location growth in China to a restaurant a day, while fattening up its currently meagre franchise business there. “We should be opening a restaurant every day in the next three to four...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 25, 2011
At The Economist, an interactive map matches China’s provinces and municipalities with different countries by GDP, GDP per capita, population and exports. China is now the world’s second-biggest economy, but some of its...
by Japhet Weeks | Mar 2, 2009
Evan Osnos writes about a community of Chinese netizens who translate the Economist from cover to cover. From his New Yorker blog, Letter from China: For an extraordinary measure of the power of the Chinese Internet, take a look...
by Liu Yong | Mar 1, 2009
From New York Times: Every day, Chinese fans produce unauthorized translations of Western pop culture products and put them online, like subtitled episodes of “Heroes” or the final Harry Potter novel. But a group calling itself...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 26, 2009
Waxy.org discovered a group of about 240 Chinese fans of the Economist Magazine who voluntarily collaborate each week to translate the full contents of the magazine into Chinese and distribute it online: In short, a group of...