In recent years, the Chinese central government has been viewed as an example of fiscal health. As of the end of 2012, the total worth of the issued national bonds was 8.27 trillion RMB, which …
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“Gold rush.” “1920s Hollywood.” “Faster than a speeding bullet.” These are a few ways that film professionals have described China’s booming movie industry. China’s film market, the second-largest in the world, grossed roughly US$2.7 billion in 2012, a 37% increase over 2011 revenues, leading …
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As the United States Embassy in China warns, “If a product sells, it is likely to be illegally duplicated.” Apple products, despite a wave of government-backed criticism in April, continue to sell well in China, …
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Cui Yunquan’s robots look like they’ve roved off a holodeck. Clapped in chrome, eyes glowing, their arms slice like rapiers because he designed them that way: for precision and otherworldly service. Beijing’s Cui makes noodle …
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How hard is it to book an appointment at a Chinese hospital? A self-professed IT savvy father by the handle of Fast Knife Blue Shirt (@快刀青衣) wrote a commentary about his eight-hour ordeal to book an …
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The Si Dao Kou area, which lies near the Da Zhong Si (大钟寺) subway station and alongside the third ring road, is one of the busiest areas in Beijing. Like so many hurly-burly scenes in …
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WeChat, a communications app, is suffering some user ire for the first time since it began its explosive growth to dominate the mobile messaging markets in China and many emerging market countries like India and …
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In Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality Among China’s New Rich, John Osburg, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Rochester, takes his readers into a shady underworld, where entrepreneurs and state bureaucrats mingle and forge …
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“Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments,” advised the Bard. While no one doubts that their minds are true and the potential synergy is great, in the heady, $586 million …
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In April, China’s central government and provincial authorities released data on the country’s economic performance for the first quarter of 2013. On April 15, the National Bureau of Statistics announced that the country’s year-on-year real …
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Guerrilla warfare, Mao Zedong’s favorite modus operandi, is being used against the army he created. And the grassroots warriors have just scored a small victory. China’s Internet users began a campaign earlier this year to post photos …
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A resounding victory has been scored against China’s all-powerful state-owned telecom operators — a victory for innovative, life-changing technology, for private enterprises and entrepreneurs, and for millions of users who came together on China’s social …
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