The most popular recurring foreign talking point on China’s surging economy in the era of the global financial crisis is something like, “Maybe they have got something figured out over there in Beijing that we don’t.” That is, maybe authoritarian state-led capitalism isn’t all that bad.
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After being married to a Chinese woman for two years, I have noticed one question constantly comes up in conversations with both Chinese and Western people. “What are the differences between Chinese and Western girls?” The differences really aren’t that dramatic or unfathomable. But there is one difference that everyone who wants to date or marry a Chinese must understand.
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It’s easy to get stuck ordering and eating the same dishes over and over again, but it’s important that you not let that happen. Here’s how you can prevent yourself from falling into the trap that we spring on ourselves.
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A brief study of Chinese propaganda, and what the evolution of this propaganda shows us about the development of China as country, and how it helps us to understand China more.
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Across Africa, China is pursuing a natural resources bonanza. In Angola it's oil; in Mozambique, it's timber and in Zambia, it's copper. This grand enterprise has earned the world's greatest emerging economy both friends and critics.
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Most foreigners these days are welcomed to Xinjiang with open arms. There is, however, a list of foreigners - both past and present - who will forever be scorned in the Xinjiang history books. This is the Xinjiang Most-Wanted Foreigners List.
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So which is it: they "let" you goose-step outside my kitchen windows for hours everyday, or they "make" you goose-step outside my kitchen windows for hours everyday? Turns out that in Chinese, it's all the same.
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The intrinsic problem is that China has become too dependent on its own state-owned enterprises to maintain growth and employment at all costs following the events of September 2008. Because they were so huge and had ready access to capital from the state-owned banks, they were able to keep China’s economy growing, even while the rest of the world headed into a funk.
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Living in Tianjin, China and not knowing about this food is like living in America and not knowing about hamburgers. Tianjiners love them some public breakfast, and this is your pictorial guide to the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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So, as my wife was pinched and poked, then sent in to begin the cesarean, we waited outside. Everything went well, fortunately.
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Will the 21st century belong to China? For a while, perhaps ― but only in the sense that it was said to belong to Japan in the 1980s. Looking back now, that seems ridiculous, but at the time best-selling books were predicting that Americans, not to mention the rest of the planet, would be reduced to virtual serfdom by the relentless high-speed growth of the Japanese economy.
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Director Zhang Yimou and Executive Producer Zhang Weiping discovered finding an “untarnished beauty” in China is no easy matter. While casting their new film Love of the Hawthorn Tree they auditioned thousands of girls, and had some choice words on the matter.
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Chinese nationals married to foreigners will have to settle any marital conflicts according to the law of the country where they live most of the time under proposals that went before Chinese lawmakers Monday. The draft was on Monday submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, during its bimonthly session for a second reading.
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Local authorities in China are using brutal means to expropriate ordinary people in a bid to profit from the country's construction boom. Some desperate citizens have commited suicide, while others vow to defend their properties with their lives.
read more »Reporters like to ask powerful interview subjects what keeps them up at night.
The answers can surprise.
Now, if they could pose that question to the super rich in China, I wouldn't be surprised to find Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's upcoming China trip on their list of nightmares.
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Allow me to put this in perspective: three touts selling counterfeit Expo goods at Expo is akin to three touts selling counterfeit Mickey Mouse key-chains in the heart of Disney World – a Disney World rung by fences and guarded by thousands of national guard members, police, and private security guards. And I’m not the only blogger to notice this phenomenon. (See the links inside the orig.
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hadn’t done the government banquet routine for a couple of years, so I was a little out of practice last month when some colleagues and I traveled to Yancheng, in northern Jiangsu Province, to investigate local government developments in the wind power industry.
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China’s is a donut civilization: its civil society hollowed out millenia ago – if it ever had one. It is a civilization without the “civil”: an “-ization”, a process of ebbs and flows as cyclical leaderships dictate.
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Much ado is made about Chengdu's teahouses—though, perhaps strangely, not so much its tea—and it's never quite explained why the teahouses are so central to Chengdu's identity. Wang Di is a man who spends much of his time visiting, thinking about, reading about, and writing about teahouses.
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Despite becoming the world’s No. 2 economy, China yesterday said it is still a developing country, reflecting its reluctance to take on new obligations on climate change and other issues...
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