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Week in China will shut down at the end of the year
Sep 16, 2022 (WiC 611)

Sadly this 600th issue is not a celebration. I regret to announce that after 14 years Week in China will publish its final issue in December. For our loyal readers – many of whom have subscribed to the magazine for the bulk of that timeframe ...

Simon Murray’s page-turner book recounts his days with KS Li and Jardines
Sep 10, 2021 (WiC 555)

No one who has met Simon Murray will contest the view that he’s eminently memorable. The octogenarian businessman and adventurer is a raconteur with a knack for great storytelling. His first book – published in 1978 – was a bestseller that ...

Who let the dogs out?

A new lunar new year ushers in the canine zodiac sign
Feb 15, 2018 (WiC 398)

February 16 marks the first day of the Year of the Dog. In Western parlance a ‘dog’ is usually the financial slang for something pretty terrible – think, for instance, of dog deals. In this, our guide to the Year of the Dog, we look at what ...

Fakes, facts and figures

Despite the gloom, China’s economy is still growing every year
Apr 1, 2016 (WiC 318)

Today is April Fools’ Day, when newspapers often publish hoax stories. Longtime readers of WiC will recall that we took the opportunity to publish an edition themed around the April Fool tradition five years ago. We included a series of very ...

Proverbial wisdom

For our 300th issue Mei selects 300 Chinese idioms
Oct 23, 2015 (WiC 300)

During its five thousand years of civilisation, China has created tens of thousands of proverbs which capture the essence of the nation’s history, culture and prevailing philosophy. Many of them contain Confucian wisdom, Taoist and Buddhist ...

Surprise winner in WiC’s blind wine tasting
Nov 21, 2014 (WiC 261)

Bordeaux, Burgundy… Xinjiang? While the two French regions are famed for producing some of the world’s best wines, the area in China’s northwest is far less well known to oenophiles. However, at a blind wine tasting hosted by WiC last ...

250 issues later…

We’ve written 3 million words about China
Aug 29, 2014 (WiC 250)

Although we cannot claim to have counted each of them individually, our estimate is that we have published 3 million words on China since we launched Week in China in early 2009. Much has changed since we began liangbaiwushi (250) issues ...

Letters to the Editor

Readers’ opinions on Vladimir Putin, China and the situation in Crimea
Apr 4, 2014 (WiC 232)

Sir, When you enter a country by force that doesn’t want you, the world should be up in arms. United Nations to the fore! However, when you enter a country that is composed of 90% of your own people, who not only speak your language as ...

Letter from the Editor

How will events in the Crimea impact China? Share your view
Mar 21, 2014 (WiC 230)

Dear Week in China readers, Crimea has often been a source of tension, most famously during the war fought there in 1853 between the Russians, the French, the British and the Ottoman Turks. In the Second World War it also became a ...

Terms of change

A unique educational experiment in Hangzhou
Jan 17, 2014 (WiC 222)

Since its founding in 1984, Chinese International School (CIS) has emerged as one of Hong Kong’s top private schools. A particular draw is its dual-language curriculum, with pupils educated both in English and Mandarin Chinese. In the ...

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