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WiC 308 (Jan 8, 2016)

Takeover tussle

Property, Talking Point Wang looks for help as the fight to control Vanke turns…

The Chinese economy of 1984 offered far fewer opportunities to the private sector than it does today. For the entrepreneurs starting out back then, it ...

Banking & Finance Circuit breakers prove failure for China’s bourses

'Crossing the river by feeling the stones’ was Deng Xiaoping’s famous description for how China should inch its way forward during the early ...

North versus south

Telecoms Why is Huawei beating Lenovo in bid for smartphone supremacy?

Google and Apple were once so close that Google’s Eric Schmidt sat on Apple’s board. Their products didn’t overlap and both firms appeared to ...

A long way to Guo?

Corporate Q&A Investigating Shanghai tycoon just the start, says China risk consultant

Beijing-born and US-educated, Albert Louie set up investigation specialist Kroll’s first representative office in Beijing in 1996 and was responsible ...

Banking & Finance Delisting candidate gets generous donation

School reunions often bring out the competitive side in their attendees – like the Ningbo-based businessman who presented 39 specially-embossed gold ...

Telecoms Mega telco merger to follow graft clean up?

In Confucian philosophy xiao, or filial piety, is the primary duty of all human beings. But Xi Jinping looks more interested in advocating ...

Managing decline

Rise of the RMB Redback set to depreciate versus greenback

It’s five years since China’s then-leader Hu Jintao bashed the international monetary system as “a product of the past”. He took particular aim ...

After the deluge

Economy Two disasters, two suicides, many questions

Selfish or selfless? An attempt at atonement or a final act of betrayal? These are some of the questions Chinese netizens and media have been asking ...

Fast Food The capital's dish

Peking Duck, the most famous dish from northern China, actually originated in Nanjing, the first capital of the Ming Dynasty. It’s believed that the ...

The good fellas

Entertainment, Society Rare gangster movie reveals the changing face of Beijing’s underworld

The propaganda photo was designed to depict the post-1949 fate of Chinese gangsters. In it, an 80 year-old man mopped the street in Shanghai. He was ...

Legendary viewing figures

Entertainment Sun Li TV drama gets watched over 10 billion times online

In 2011, The Legend of Zhen Huan premiered on Anhui and Dragon Satellite TV. Based on Liu Lianzi’s novel of the same title, the historical ...

Planet China Exactly 300 issues ago we reported on an online survey that…

Exactly 300 issues ago we reported on an online survey that had asked the Chinese public who they trusted most. The answer was firemen, who got 29% of ...

The future of filmmaking?

Cartoons The future of filmmaking?

Back in 2012 WiC reported on a remark made by Cameron Bailey, the artistic director of the Toronto Film Festival. Referring to the status of the film ...

This one’s purely made in China

Sino-File “This [latest] aircraft carrier is being developed according to entirely domestic…

Defence Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun officially announces at a media briefing that China’s navy has embarked on the building of its second aircraft ...

And Finally China’s ‘shadow central bank’ to go public

Death is rarely a laughing matter but the Chinese press has been having a field day joking about the listing application of a company which prints ...