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WiC 294 (Sep 4, 2015)

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No rain on this parade

China and the World, Talking Point What message was Beijing sending with its military parade this week?

In the wake of the Second World War there was no shortage of victory parades. In 1945 General Montgomery and Marshal Zhukov took turns to inspect the ...

Home away from home

Internet & Tech Airbnb poised for head-on battle with its Chinese rival

If you fancy staying in an idyllic villa close to Hangzhou’s historic West Lake, Airbnb may have an option for you, particularly if you are planning ...

Market makeover

China Consumer Shiseido’s ambitious five-year plan for China

From afar it was said that Zhang Lihua looked like an “immortal floating in the air.” The favourite concubine of the last Southern Dynasty emperor ...

Three in one

Economy More talk that Beijing will integrate further with Tianjin and Hebei

As early as 1981 China’s planning agency the State Development Planning Commission (a predecessor of the NDRC) made the integration of Beijing, ...

Toil on the soil

Agriculture Chinese soybean deal hit by local politics

Qianyang county magistrate Zhang Guaiya made his name during the Song Dynasty after sentencing an official to death for stealing a single coin. When ...

The sweet spot

Agriculture How American cherries got their start in China

To ‘cherry pick’ talent is to suggest that you are choosing the very best. And for a long time that was how the cherry was viewed by Chinese fruit ...

A new dawn

Entertainment Will remake of Russian classic still chime with Chinese audiences?

In the autumn of 1982 China and the Soviet Union resumed vice ministerial level talks – a major diplomatic step given the two countries had frozen ...

No mom’s land

Society Trafficking victims spark debate again

Should a trafficked woman be praised for staying with the “husband” that bought her? Should people who buy wives and children go unpunished? And ...

Chinese heroes

Ask Mei Some of the Chinese equivalents of Alexander the Great and Winston…

There are a lot of historical heroes in the West such as Alexander the Great, Leonardo Da Vinci, George Washington, Winston Churchill, etc. Who ...

Wei Shaojun

Who’s Hu Baoding's richest man

Baoding roughly translates as “stable protection” in Chinese. Traditionally a military city, its economic history has been less storied. Now Xi ...

Caught on camera

Planet China Common sense suggests that keeping an extra-marital affair secret requires discretion…

Common sense suggests that keeping an extra-marital affair secret requires discretion and planning. Certain venues might be deemed dangerous – such ...

Gearing up soon

Sino-File “Don’t worry. I strongly believe in the Chinese market. There are…

Wolfgang Durheimer, the CEO of Bentley, speaks to the Financial Times about the slowdown in car sales in China. Jaguar Land Rover has seen Chinese ...

Phone loans

Cartoons Phone loans

Playing games on your phone might once have been viewed as the preserve of the timewaster, but now Tencent users are finding that busy thumbs are ...

Talk of the town

And Finally Cambridge law student crowned Miss Hong Kong

Cambridge University has produced the father of modern physics (Newton), the man who figured out evolution (Darwin) and the author of Paradise ...

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