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A Next Weekly (in translation via ESWN) article by Steven N.S. Cheung, where he gives a bit of depth to some of Beijing's reasons for supression of free speech, and why in the end it will stop knowledge development - and in turn Chinese social development.

Learning Chinese is becoming more and more popular in the Western nations. However we can see that China's visa policy becomes stricter every year. Are these people learning a language of a country they might not be allowed to enter in the future?

A nice collection of jokes in Chinese to help your learning. Needless to say, it's more interesting than discussing the price of vegetables or learning how to tell someone the number of people in your family.

I've compiled some resources for learning Cantonese. First I made this list for private reasons, but I feel that others might find value in this list. It is by no means complete, feel free to add other good Cantoese learning resources in the comments section

In “Distribution, China’s Next Big Opportunity,” I described why I believe the area of wholesale and retail distribution represents one of the next big opportunities in China.

In short, provisions agreed to as part of China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization at the end of 2001 have opened up the country’s distribution sector to foreign investment. Previously, distributing products in China was off-limits to foreigners.

Ken Carroll, Founder of ChinesePod, introduces us to his company's new media approach to learning Chinese and draws upon his 13 years of China experience to lend some advice to newcomers to China's business landscape.

In Xi’an, like in many other major cities in China, prostitues, sex shops, and adult films have all claimed an important place in its local economy. While the growing public popularity of these adult items and services reflect a change in the way that Chinese people view sex, there is also a large foreign demand that is fueling this market. For this reason, many of the sex shops and...

Some interesting news over at Ken Carroll's blog announcing that Praxis Language, the folks behind Chinesepod.com, have been hired by the Confucius Institute to design their online learning system. Props to Praxis for landing the fat account, and smart thinking from the CI for going to the forerunners in online language learning.

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