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WiC 22 (Jul 3, 2009)

Assessing the Dam Age

Internet & Tech, Talking Point Why the controversial internet filter Green Dam has been put on…

Imagine a Cheney-Rumsfeld presidential ticket and then try and conceive of something even less appetising. Well, look no further than China’s ...

On your marks, get set…

China Consumer Sportswear is booming, and Chinese brands are battling the foreign giants

Back in 2000, Erke was a little known mainland label attempting to establish a name in China's sportswear market alongside heavyweights like Nike and ...

Banking & Finance Bawang’s listing is massively oversubscribed. Is IPO fever back?

Recession creates worry, which can beget bald patches. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that the hottest initial public offering on the Hong ...

No shelter from the storm

Society Old problems for China’s youngest mayor

He should have said no to the photos in the melon patch. Especially the one beneath an umbrella held out by a helpful colleague. That will be one of ...

Jet’s jumbo giving

Entertainment Li’s charity packs a punch

Perhaps best known for his graceful martial art sequences in movies like Hero, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and The Warlords, Jet Li has been ...

Not-so-plain Jane

Entertainment Beijing adaptation of an English classic sells out

Chairman Mao would no doubt be horrified to hear that Jane Eyre is being staged in Beijing. Quite aside from being a bourgeois liberal text, there is ...

Technical knockout

Sport China’s best boxer spars with his government

"The way of the amateur is the only one to provide satisfactory results,” declares the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in a famous scene from ...

A load of rubbish

Environment New “eco” incineration plants are proving controversial

The problem with rubbish is that there is no good way to get rid of it. Some readers will recall that we wrote an upbeat article in WiC6, that looked ...

Who’s Hu Geely supremo

Li Shufu was born into a farming family. His career as an industrialist began in making spare parts for refrigerators in 1984. He then switched to ...

Journey to the West

Economy Is the dynamo of China’s current growth its western interior?

Calls to Go West have often bounced around the world’s more flamboyant discotheques, courtesy of the Village People and, more recently, the Pet Shop ...

A scourge of China

Healthcare Why the government has launched a massive vaccination campaign

Going to school used to be a simple matter. Buy a backpack, grab a few pencils and head for the door. But in China, the academic survival kit is not ...

Man’s best-dressed friend

Planet China Beijing-based Hu Xi is making waves in China’s fashion industry. But…

Beijing-based Hu Xi is making waves in China’s fashion industry. But she doesn’t dress women, or even men. She makes clothes for dogs. According to ...

A more expensive tank

Cartoons A more expensive tank

In 1988 a government-mandated hike in commodity prices proved so calamitous that there was a run on the banks. By that standard, this week’s decision ...

The world’s priciest steak

And Finally Chinese media speculates on the merits of spending $2.11 million on…

"You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant,” was Warren Buffett’s response when asked whether America’s $787 billion ...