The Economist: Xi Who Must Be Obeyed
Chinese President and CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping has made it onto the cover of The Economist...
The Economist
Found in Translation
Newly launched political news website ThePaper.cn (澎湃), part of Xi Jinping’s drive to up the...
Who Dreamed Up the Chinese Dream? [Updated]
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...
The Song of Song: Death of a Revolutionary
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...
Taiwan Blocks Dalai Lama Visit
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...
The Economist in China: Old Hands
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...
A Better Big Mac Index and a McDonald’s a Day
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...
The Economist Compares Provinces with Countries
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...
Found in Translation
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...
Volunteers Put the Economist Into Chinese
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...
Translating “The Economist” Behind China’s Great Firewall
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...
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