Category Archives: Guest Contributor

Chinese entrepreneurs in Africa, land of a billion customers

Multi-billion dollar resource and infrastructure deals between China and African countries make the business headlines ever more regularly, but there are very few reports on the growing numbers of Chinese entrepreneurs and small private companies seeking opportunities in Africa that they cannot find in China.

Tessa Thorniley looks at how they are faring

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How monks aided in the Yushu earthquake relief effort

A translation by Dave Camp of a Southern Weekly report on the work of local Yushu lamas in the earthquake relief effort.

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Disappearing swifts of Beijing

Michael Rank guest contributes an article for Danwei on the demise of Beijing’s “city bird” - the swift (雨燕 or 楼燕).

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Joe Wong, stand-up comic

Q&A with Joe Wong, born in the People’s Republic of China and now making a career as a stand-up comic in the United States.

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The Huangguoshu Waterfall in Anshun

This is a piece by a contributor, Dustin Ooley, who is a U.S.-China Friendship Volunteer, as part of the Peace Corps, presently stationed in at Anshun Teacher’s College,

Anshun, Guizhou PRC

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Chinese-run supermarkets in Argentina

Nancy Liu, a health researcher, an NIH/Fogarty Scholar in Buenos Aires, writes about the supermarkets and Taiwanese where she is.

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Chinese in Argentina

From guest contributor Nancy H. Liu, a former Fullbright Scholar in China. Nancy is currently in Buenos Aires, living in the Chinatown area of the city and researching into health disparities as Research Fellow of the Instituto de Efectividad Clinica y Sanitaria.

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Subway trains to shelter Sichuan homeless

An ingenious use of decommissioned subway cars provides an immediate solution for a few of the thousands left homeless by the devastating earthquake in Sichuan.

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In Shaanxi’s ad industry, there’s a new cowboy in town

The Economic Observer reports on a former journalist who now slings fancy copy in the service of PR for New Development Zones.

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May the Milk Wars commence!

Ads and PR for beleaguered milk companies Yili, Bright and Mengniu.

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