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WiC 122 (Sep 16, 2011)

Will Beijing cross Rubicon?

China and the World, Talking Point Italy asks China to buy its government debt and help save…

After 10 years of restoration by skilled artisans the George C Marshall Center was reopened in the Hotel de Talleyrand in May last year. The timing was ...

Chinese Character Meet the property tycoon who wants to buy up Iceland’s wilderness

Fancy a trip to the Country Music Hall of Fame? Probably not. But more than four million fans have already visited the museum in Nashville, doffing ...

Shifting into third-tier

Auto Industry Why foreign carmakers are excited by Chinese cities you’ve never heard…

Foreign car companies are looking for growth in some of China’s remotest regions. Take Gansu, which has more than its share of mountains, desert ...

M&A Sanyo’s white goods business bought by Chinese firm

In 1998, Haier chairman Zhang Ruimin became the first Chinese entrepreneur to give a speech at Harvard. And he grasped the opportunity, offering up his ...

India outmuscled

China and the World New Delhi worries about China’s growing might

"Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough,” British author Martin Amis once warned. Today, two of Asia’s military giants are ...

Our word is our bond

Banking & Finance IOUs, bonds and local government finance

Two years ago, Liang Weishi became interested in family history. Rooting around in the ancestral home, he found the information he was a looking for, ...

Barefoot doctor

Who’s Hu Liu Baolin

Born in Yingcheng, Hubei province, Liu Baolin dropped out of school to support his family. At 16 he became a barefoot doctor, working in poor ...

Surprise winner in Venice

Red Star Cai Shangjun

Cai Shangjun grew up in Beijing and studied at the Central Academy of Drama, where he met his friend Zhang Yang, one of the most successful independent ...

Talking about a revolution

Entertainment New film deals with the sensitive subject of the 1911 Xinhai…

Almost a century ago, on October 10, 1911, Qing dynasty soldiers and members of Sun Yat-sen’s Chinese Revolutionary Alliance rose up against the ...

Society Tempers fray on Beijing roads

Mid-Autumn festival is traditionally a time for eating, drinking, matchmaking and moon-gazing. Held on the 15th day of each lunar cycle, this year it ...

Society China and the anniversary of September 11

When CCTV news anchor Bai Yansong went to visit the Newseum, a museum in Washington that collects the world’s major national newspapers, he had a ...

Planet China Kopi Luwak is a famous coffee from Indonesia, often regarded as…

Kopi Luwak is a famous coffee from Indonesia, often regarded as the world’s most expensive. Why? It’s derived from beans which are eaten by civet ...

Pharma firm makes netizens sick

Cartoons Pharma firm makes netizens sick

Speaking of Europe, the Palace of Versailles has also been in the news this week, with many Chinese asking if it has been moved to Harbin. Photos of ...

Return of the native

And Finally Why some Chinese are deserting cities

Think of modern China, and the images are often of gleaming skyscrapers in Shanghai or the (somewhat grubbier) factories of Guangdong province. In ...