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As China’s breakneck rate of economic growth finally begins to slow, some analysts are holding...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 21, 2012
As China’s breakneck rate of economic growth finally begins to slow, some analysts are holding...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Jul 18, 2012
Lei Jun (雷军), founder and major shareholder of Xiaomi Tech (小米科技) [zh], has just joined the ranks of Chinese billionaires. Now worth an estimated $4 billion, the company was founded in 2010, and released the Xiaomi Phone –...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Jun 20, 2012
Beijing’s Confucius Institute, a program to aid in spreading Chinese soft-power to the world via language and cultural education, has generated much controversy since its beginnings in 2004. While government sponsored...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 4, 2012
Last week, Google released a new feature in mainland China that alerts users to search terms that...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | May 29, 2012
On the New York Review of Books blog, Ian Johnson profiles Bill Porter, an American translator of Chinese poetry and religious books, who has become a minor literary celebrity in China: For Porter, it all started several years...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | May 3, 2012
Chen Guangcheng’s story has continued to gain momentum, with the activist’s face and iconic dark glasses gracing the cover of this week’s Economist magazine (although Bo Xilai beat him onto the cover of TIME)....
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Feb 27, 2012
British chain Pizza Express has apologised for advertising the location of a Shanghai branch as “in the French Concession” (法租界 Fǎ Zūjiè), the French-governed enclave which occupied the city’s Xuhui and Luwan...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Dec 22, 2011
The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, issued a statement on Tuesday expressing concern at the sudden revocation of missing lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s probation, and at proposed revisions to...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Nov 4, 2011
Architectural extravagance in China has attracted a great deal of attention in recent months, with a Harbin pharmaceutical company and the Jiangsu village of Huaxi offering particular highlights, and a Los Angeles Times article...
Read MorePosted by Scott Greene | Oct 17, 2011
A 2-year-old girl named Yue Yue is in critical condition after she was run over twice in a Guangdong market and ignored by numerous passers-by. From China Daily: Footage from a surveillance camera presented on local TV shows Yue...
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