State Council Approves Shanghai Free Trade Zone
The People’s Daily reports that China approved the creation of a special free trade zone in Shanghai: The project, occupying 28 square kilometers, will center around the Yangshan Deep Water Port and will take more than 10...
Read MoreAre Beijing’s Expectations for Urbanization Realistic?
South China Morning Post’s Tom Holland suggests that Beijing’s faith in urbanization as an economic engine may be misplaced: Urbanisation is not just the centrepiece of new Premier Li Keqiang’s economic...
Read MoreChina’s Vegetarians Outnumber America’s
As China’s appetite for meat grows, so does awareness of its environmental cost, and the number of those giving it up. From Mary Kay Magistad at PRI’s The World: […] Many Chinese just don’t want to give up meat. But...
Read MoreGaokao Quitters Multiply as ‘Sea Turtles’ Flounder
Amid bleak job prospects for many of China’s fresh college graduates, The Economist reports that even an education abroad is no longer the golden ticket it once was: […] Several studies show that sea turtles on average...
Read MoreThe Rise of Copycat Architecture in China
Many have mused on the phenomenon of China’s copycat buildings, as well as entire facsimile towns. There are numerous news reports and accounts from bemused tourists who have stumbled upon a slice of Austria in Guangdong,...
Read MoreRetail Landlords Facing Rising Vacancies
Bloomberg News reports that landlords have begun to waive rents and provide other perks to non-luxury names like Zara and H&M in an effort to prevent rising vacancies, as a boom in shopping mall construction amid cooling...
Read MoreChinese Students Still Flocking to U.S. Colleges
George McKibbens of the South China Morning Post reports that problems facing U.S. schools have not deterred Chinese students from looking to America for their college education: In a study by China-US Focus, 120,000 Chinese...
Read MoreLi Na and China’s Soviet-Style Sports System
Chinese tennis star Li Na may have bowed out of Wimbledon on Tuesday, but Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore of the International Herald Tribune points out that Li is one of just a few athletes that have found success outside of...
Read MoreChina’s Rejuvenation: Wealth & Power, But Not Yet Respect
In an excerpt from their new book, Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century, Orville Schell and John Delury trace China’s dream of national rejuvenation from the hopes of 19th Century...
Read MoreHow Would Accepting Gay Culture Change China?
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a federal ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, members of the LGBT community gathered around the world for Pride parades last weekend in remembrance of the 1969 Stonewall riots. Amid...
Read MoreWhy China Is Ordering Children to Visit Parents
An amended law encouraging adult children to visit their parents went into effect on Monday in China. This legislative action can be seen to reflect the changes that rapid social and economic transformation are having on a...
Read MoreWord of the Week: Yax Lizard
The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
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