Category Archives: Business and the Economy

The year of the breastfeeding flash mob in China – a father’s account

Posted on 2012-10-18 by Sascha Matuszak

This has been the year of the flash mob in China, the breastfeeding flash mob to be exact. In May, August and September of this year, Chinese mothers bared their breasts in public to help galvanize a tiny yet growing … Continue reading →

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“This year’s Golden Week was not relaxed”

Posted on 2012-10-08 by Barry van Wyk

Congested, overflowing, dirty and just not all that much fun – that’s what the front page of today’s Sanxiang City News (三湘都市报) from Hunan (湖南) province thought of this year’s Golden Week holiday that finished yesterday. A host of front pages today carry the … Continue reading →

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Urban redevelopment: a city’s life and death

Posted on 2012-10-05 by Julien Leyre

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s digest is taking us through various aspects of China’s urbanization process. Zhang … Continue reading →

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Everything under heaven is in chaos: China’s digital publishing market

Posted on 2012-09-27 by Laurence Harris

by Laurence Harris on September 27, 2012 Digital publishing has been around since the early days of the Internet in China: literary websites first appeared in the late 1990s. First accessed via desktop computers, users are now more likely to … Continue reading →

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‘The difference between the way Jews and Chinese do business’

Posted on 2012-09-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Chinese fascination with Jewish people, and the common belief here that Jews are intelligent and good at business, has resulted in a mini industry of books that attempt to teach Chinese people the secrets of Jewish culture, see for … Continue reading →

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The end of Occupy Central, Hong Kong

Posted on 2012-08-27 by Hudson Lockett

This was a live blog following the countdown to the initial 9pm deadline on August 27 to vacate the HSBC building’s walkthrough. Despite receiving a reprieve–likely a few days–the activists and homeless residents of Occupy Central (占领中环) in Hong Kong still stand … Continue reading →

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Taxpayers are not ATMs

Posted on 2012-08-25 by Julien Leyre

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published in Chinese on My1510.cn, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s digest presents three articles exploring questions of social justice from three different perspectives … Continue reading →

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Beijing in my memory, London in my eyes

Posted on 2012-08-17 by Julien Leyre

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published in Chinese on My1510.cn, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s digest proposes to look back at the London Olympics and the commentaries they … Continue reading →

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Sidney Rittenberg: Reflections on a lifetime in China

Posted on 2012-08-03 by Allison Carol Goldman

Sidney Rittenberg is the subject of a new documentary film called “The Revolutionary.” He is an American who lived in China from 1945 to 1980. His arrival was partly coincidence: he was drafted during World War II and sent to … Continue reading →

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China box office takings first half 2012: Titanic 3D dominates

Posted on 2012-07-27 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Below are the box office takings in China for the first half of 2012 as reported by the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT). The top grossing film was Titanic 3D which brought in 934 million yuan), while … Continue reading →

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