Category Archives: Business and Finance

Sex and the Financial Times

Posted on 2006-05-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Bank of China seems to be one of the very few companies that can make the writer of the Financial Times‘ Lex column hot under the collar: Initial public offerings do not come much sexier than this. Bank of … Continue reading →

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Foreign exchange czar: China to take “faster steps” to capital account covertability

Posted on 2006-05-08 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Hu Xiaolian on Caijing’s Workers’ Day cover Caijing‘s May 1 issue features Hu Xiaolian, the central bank’s foreign exchange chief, on the cover. The article is an interview with Hu. The below is Caijing‘s own English summary of the story: … Continue reading →

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Photos of Liu Xiang and flying cranes

Posted on 2006-05-07 by Joel Martinsen

Only 60% of ‘My Heart is Flying: A Liu Xiang Photobook’ (我心飞翔·刘翔写真集) concerns the Olympic hurdles champion. The rest talks about cranes, the emblem of the Baisha tobacco company. Is this symptomatic of problems within the Chinese celebrity endorsement system?

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The cost of marketing a young web author

Posted on 2006-05-06 by Joel Martinsen

Marketing figures for the print version of young author Lin Qianyu’s online novel Carefree: A Crusade Legend (林千羽, 《逍遥·圣战传说》), serialized on Sina and published by Zhaohua Press.

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China’s retail market “saturated”

Posted on 2006-04-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

From the Financial Times, an article titled China market ‘becoming saturated’ (subscription required): The window of opportunity for international retailers in China is continuing to close, as the market becomes saturated, according to an annual study of emerging retail markets … Continue reading →

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China’s talent shortage

Posted on 2006-04-27 by Dror Poleg

The International Herlad Tribune published an interesting piece about the recruitment struggles of foreign companies in China. Selected quotes: …A recent McKinsey report, titled “Addressing China’s Looming Talent Shortage,” said surveys had shown that fewer than 10 percent of Chinese … Continue reading →

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The Chinese media market is “absolutely open”

Posted on 2006-04-19 by Jeremy Goldkorn

GAPP sets the record straight From a Reuters story on the Washington Post, China defends latest controls on media freedom: The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television reissued notices restricting local broadcasters’ use of foreign news footage and the … Continue reading →

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Start up airlines in the Pearl River Delta

Posted on 2006-04-10 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Issue 2 Destination PRD, the English magazine about the Pearl River Delta, has published its second issue. This is excerpted from one of the articles: The Pearl River Delta area has become the center of a worldwide aviation trend: start-up … Continue reading →

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Danwei TV 3: Thomas Shao of Modern Media

Posted on 2006-03-30 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Danwei TV Hard Hat Show interviews publisher Thomas Shao.

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Prices jump on Beijing porn, but is it possible not to buy?

Posted on 2006-03-29 by Joel Martinsen

Zhongguancun police confiscate 68,000 discs, driving prices up to 25 yuan per. Also, a comic posting about the tenacity of porno vendors.

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