On Those Who Write
One of the most famous letters in Chinese history was sent by the historian Sima Qian to his friend..
19 JulyTag: china
The culture that is China (Austria)
Residents of the Austrian mountain town of Hallstatt, population 800, are scandalized. A Chinese firm has plans to replicate the village including its famous lake in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, Austrian media reported this week…
20 JuneChina Tomorrow
The Economist’s Free Exchange blog has a handy table showing you when China’s GDP will overtake America’s. You can manipulate it by changing the projected growth figures, though under any reasonable assumption, China will become the world’s larges…
18 JanuaryChina Today
???The money supply is too large,??? said Andy Xie, an economist based in Shanghai who formerly worked at Morgan Stanley. ???They increased the money supply to stimulate the economy. Now land prices have jumped 20 times in some places, 100 times in othe…
16 JanuaryA Skyscraper for Farmers
In a city that boasts more than 1,300 people moving in daily, adding almost 100 million yuan (US$15 million) to the local economy, Chongqing is one of the largest city in western China. Its suburbs are not however how you would imagine. Consider t…
28 JuneChina
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22 July