economics

The Relationship Between Pollution and Unrest

Essentially a 4 pegged stool, the above are what I call the pillars of stability. If one of the pillars is lost for a single person or a family member, then the risk of unrest increases.

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Will Olympic hype lead to Olympic depression?

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Beijing University academic Michael Pettis worries whether the high expectations surrounding the Beijing Olympics will cause an economic depression.

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Facts and Figures: Hours per year

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Every wonder how many hours you work at your cushy English teaching job compared to how much you would be working in the West? What if you compared it to the amount of hours worked by a typical Chinese working class employee? This post breaks it all down to exact numbers, and the results...well, they probably aren't too surprising.

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A decade off our lives | "生活在这里的人得少活十年。

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From the story...

“Living here takes a decade off our lives,” sighs our taxi driver, looking into the black smog ahead. We are in the town of Gongwusu, where Ningxia province meets Inner Mongolia. The driver often takes motorway 108 or 109 to destinations on either side of the border. “Everywhere the sky is full of black fumes, like storm clouds. You can’t see the sun; even in the daytime you need to put your headlights on.”