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WiC 23 (Jul 10, 2009)

Others Our first summer reading list is a compilation of books we’ve…

The Man Who Loved China Simon Winchester The Chinese discovered paper and printing. They were the first to ...

Rail & Infrastructure China’s spending programme on railways and subways surges

Deng Xiaoping believed that China had one key advantage over Western democracies: “As long as something has been decided and a resolution has been ...

M&A, Talking Point Will 2009 be the year Chinese overseas acquisitions exceed FDI?

Somewhere in China – nestled perhaps in a bureaucrat’s drawer – WiC would like to imagine there is a yellowing, 30 year-old document entitled ...

Red Star A-Mei

Zhang Huimei, or “A-Mei” as she likes to be called, was born a tribal princess of the Puyuma clan of Taiwan’s aboriginal ethnic group. Making ...

Red art now in the black

Society A revolution in the art world

Around 15 years ago Marc Faber began to accumulate memorabilia from ‘red’ China. The stuff was virtually worthless at the time but Faber – who is ...

Entertainment Jackson’s life written in 2 days; in Beijing shops within a…

China is a land where things get manufactured fast. So it should come as little surprise that there was a new book about Michael Jackson out on the ...

Transformational

Entertainment Michael Bay’s blockbuster movie sets a new record in China

Transformers are huge in China, and we are not talking about the device that transfers electricity from one circuit to another. In the first five ...

Houses of cards

Property Collapsed building draws attention to problem of shoddy construction

For years, tourists have flocked to Pisa to gape at a dangerous building – the leaning, twelfth century bell tower. Shanghai now has its own ...

Energy & Resources Huge iron ore find in Liaoning

The Qin Emperor’s tomb is perhaps best known for its Terracotta Warriors. Less famous, is a 90cm iron sword. After 2,200 years it still has not ...

Unrest in the west

China Ink, Society This week’s unrest in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, has been…

What was the immediate lead up to the violence? There is reporting of the immediate spark: the death at the end of June of two ...

The Italian job

China Tourist Tourism bosses in Rome have a plan to attract more Chinese…

The Chinese love Venice. But the Italians are ruing that it seems to be the one in Macau they like best, and not the real thing. That was one of the ...

Who’s Hu The internet Buddhist

Charles Zhang was lucky: the Cultural Revolution ended just as he finished middle school. So he enrolled in Tsinghua, China’s most prestigious ...

Bulls in the China shop

Banking & Finance Shanghai market continues its ascent

It was a slightly unexpected question. Bawang shampoo is supposed to fight hair loss – thanks to its herbal properties – so a journalist asked the ...

Enter the ‘redback’

Rise of the RMB A historic week for China’s currency

It wasn’t exactly in the same league as Orville and Wilbur Wright getting their spruce flyer 10 feet into the air, but July 6 will probably be ...

Planet China They say opposites attract, but in the case of Wang Yang…

They say opposites attract, but in the case of Wang Yang the choice was to go for someone very similar. So similar in fact that he opted for a wife who ...

The really cheap seats

Cartoons The really cheap seats

Michael O’Leary, the combative head of European low cost carrier Ryanair, is never short of a cost-cutting idea. Recent suggestions have included ...

The other Madame Butterfly

And Finally China’s spying soprano has died aged 70

The death in Paris last week of Shi Pei Pu, an operatic soprano from Shandong, brings to an end one of the more unlikely stories of recent times. Even ...