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Big giver from China
Jan 15, 2010 (WiC 45)

A century ago, a Yale-graduate Edward Hicks Hume came to China and founded the Yale Hospital, the College of Yale-in-China in Changsha, and Yali Middle School in Hunan Province. Hume named the school Ya Li, meaning elegance of expression and ...

China’s Mark Twain in new English translation
Jan 8, 2010 (WiC 44)

It is hard to know how Lu Xun would have reacted to the rapid transformation that has swept China in the past twenty or so years. In disbelief, perhaps. After all, he once wrote: “China is very hard to change. Just to move a table or overhaul ...

Luxury yachts on the horizon for the Chinese elite
Dec 18, 2009 (WiC 43)

When people think about the American Jim Clark, few recall that he was the co-founder of Netscape Communications in 1994. More remember him as the owner of rather large yachts. To say Clark was committed to his boat would be an understatement. ...

A rival for the US president's wife?
Dec 4, 2009 (WiC 41)

The term ’15 seconds of fame’ was coined by Andy Warhol – in reference to how the modern media can make anyone famous, albeit briefly. In China the phrase might be better updated to ’15 megabytes of fame’, thanks to the all-pervasive ...

Are class tensions rising?
Dec 2, 2009 (WiC 43)

It costs $585 in London, $589 in Paris and just $574 in New York. But the very same Christian Dior ladies’ wallet will set you back $805 in Shanghai. This none-too-trivial differential came to light in a recent Wall Street Journal survey. ...

Seibert's photographs capture realities of migrant life
Nov 27, 2009 (WiC 40)

Readers will recall that in WiC6 we cited the old axiom that you should never judge a book by its cover. We were reviewing Factory Girls; an impressively researched book by Leslie Chang, which tells the stories of the young migrants who flock ...

Migrants complain about permit scheme discrimination
Nov 20, 2009 (WiC 39)

Zhang Yong has lived in Beijing with his wife Wang Caiying for eight years. The two met in the city, got married, and in 2004 bought a house in the northern suburbs. All was well until the birth of their son two years ago. The parents were ...

Auction houses report revival in Chinese antique sales
Nov 20, 2009 (WiC 39)

"Nothing demonstrates more clearly the art-market axiom that art goes where the money is,” the deputy chairman at auction house Bonhams recently told the Economist. He was referring to a round of fine Chinese art auctions in London. In ...

Not just wealthy, they’re role models for marital bliss
Nov 13, 2009 (WiC 38)

A marriage, says Chinese construction tycoon Yan Yuejie, is like flying a kite. Yan, head of China Pacific Construction Group compares himself to the kite and his wife to the kite-flyer. His meaning? Women should be like kite flyers – and ...

Official calls for mistress clampdown
Nov 6, 2009 (WiC 37)

In If You Are the One the actress Shu Qi plays the mistress of a wealthy man named Fong. In the 1991 classic, Raise the Red Lantern, Gong Li starred as the third mistress (or concubine) of a nineteenth century businessman. Is it a ...