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Hu’s foot massage chain has made her a billionaire
Jul 9, 2010 (WiC 68)

Over the past 30 years Chinese businesspeople have learned fast, and often by adopting products and ideas from further afield. Want to know how to build a great car: look to the Germans. Want to build an internet search engine: try the Americans. ...

Terry Gou’s Chinese factories are giving him headaches
Jul 2, 2010 (WiC 67)

Terry Gou is not a man to lose his cool. When an earthquake interrupted proceedings at the annual meeting of Gou’s company, Hon Hai, a few years ago, panicked investors headed for the exits. Not Gou, who was unfazed. “It’s just an ...

A spirited fellow

Meet the man who has drunk two tonnes of Moutai
Jun 18, 2010 (WiC 65)

In Somerset Maugham’s novel Of Human Bondage there is a bohemian character called Cronshaw who had “pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it ...

Zhang’s modest proposals

The beauty salon entrepreneur who is solving Beijing’s traffic problems
Jun 4, 2010 (WiC 63)

Sexiness is no light subject. The more closely you try to describe it, the more likely it gets twisted or becomes vulgar,” said Zhang Xiaomei, as she launched her latest book Sexiness Comes First for a Good Woman last month. These days, Zhang ...

Unfinished symphony

Corrupt banker who thought he was Mozart now faces death sentence
May 28, 2010 (WiC 62)

"Poverty drives diligence, diligence brings wealth, wealth induces disarray, disarray leads to vanity, and vanity results in disaster,’ is an old Chinese saying. It sums up Wang Yi’s story rather fittingly. Wang – the former vice ...

Come in Number 25…

Fame at last for Beijing’s robot-making farmer
May 7, 2010 (WiC 59)

Wu Number One walked with goose steps and Wu Number Three was designed to climb like Spiderman. Number Five could light cigarettes, and Number Eight did somersaults. Together, they make up just one rank in the legion of metallic offspring spawned ...

China’s first ‘lobbyist’

A letter-writing campaign that got the attention of the nation’s leaders
Apr 30, 2010 (WiC 58)

For some people, retirement means more time for golf and grandchildren. Not for Li Ming. For the last three years, he has been busier than ever, writing petitions and giving interviews to newspapers. The 61 year-old said he has been so busy he ...

Recipe for disaster

A classic rise-and-fall has lessons for whole Chinese economy
Apr 16, 2010 (WiC 56)

Henry Ford’s pioneering use of assembly lines to build the first Model T in 1908 quickly made the company bearing his name into one of the largest carmakers in the world. But when Chinese entrepreneur Wei Dong tried to do something similar ...

Thais that bind

How Yan Bin, China’s Mr Red Bull, makes the right friends
Apr 1, 2010 (WiC 55)

Many a rags-to-riches tale chronicles the journey of overseas Chinese tycoons who’ve escaped poverty to find wealth and power in a foreign land. Most have been ruthless, cunning and lucky in equal measure. But perhaps few have managed to ...

Scion of prominent political dynasty goes after Hong Kong broadcaster
Mar 19, 2010 (WiC 53)

Michael J Fox first found fame playing Alex P Keaton, a conservative, Ronald Reagan-obsessed teenager who clashed with his liberal, Democrat-voting parents. Their antics featured in a television show called Family Ties, which won the actor three ...

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