Category Archives: Consumer Culture

Taking the shine off Apple’s China prospects?

Posted on 2013-03-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Apple in the crosshairs, and the shadow of Google’s misadventures in China On March 15 — World Consumer Rights Day — China Central Television (CCTV) broadcast its annual investigative program that seeks to expose companies that harm or mistreat Chinese … Continue reading →

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Master Kong: How Internet rumors can affect share prices

Posted on 2013-03-07 by Barry van Wyk

The chart above illustrates how Internet rumors can ravage a company’s stock price. The company in question is Master Kong (康师傅), China’s best-loved brand of instant noodles. In 2011, Master Kong ranked second only to Sony in a survey of the … Continue reading →

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Nanyang outlaws “eating and drinking big”

Posted on 2013-01-31 by Barry van Wyk

The city government of Nanyang (南阳), Henan province, is taking corruption and extravagance very seriously. The front page of the Nanyang Evening Post (南阳晚报) today proclaims in a very large headline: “Saying ‘no’ to tip of the tongue waste”. The phrase “on the tip … Continue reading →

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Wastelands of Beijing

Posted on 2013-01-25 by Robert Foyle Hunwick

About 20 km outside Beijing, tourists sitting in tour buses from Beijing north-eastwards towards the Badaling section of the Great Wall can spot the apparent remains of a medieval castle some distance from the expressway. Its concrete spires rising above … Continue reading →

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Legal Daily report on mass incidents in China in 2012

Posted on 2013-01-06 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Legal Daily 法治日报 has published a summary of their ’2012 Mass Incident Research Report’ 2012年群体性事件研究报告, quantifying and analyzing ‘mass incidents’ in China – riots, civil unrest, and protests. The data sources and methodology behind the report are not made explicit … Continue reading →

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Q&A with author David Wolf on Huawei, ZTE and China’s telecoms industry

Posted on 2012-11-12 by Barry van Wyk

Beijing-based business strategist David Wolf is the author of a new book on China’s telecoms industry: Making the Connection: The Peaceful Rise of China’s Telecommunications Giants. The book tells the story of how previously unknown companies have emerged from one of … Continue reading →

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Guys and Sex Dolls – Scenes from the Guangzhou Sexpo

Posted on 2012-10-16 by Robert Foyle Hunwick

As millions returned to work after one of the most stressful holidays in years on Monday October 8, the Tenth Annual Guangzhou National Sex Culture Festival was finishing its last day. “Look at the time,” Professor Zhu Jiaming, one of the … 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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Nine out of ten high school students in Xiamen have bad eyesight

Posted on 2012-09-29 by Barry van Wyk

Kids in Xiamen are apparently some of the unhealthiest in China. As the Haixia Daobao (海峡导报) from Xiamen reports today, nine out of every ten children in Xiamen have eyesight problems, two out of ten are obese, and rates of malnutrition and tooth … 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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