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WiC 479 (Jan 17, 2020)

Distilling the truth

China Consumer, Talking Point Investor favourite Kweichow Moutai experiences choppier times

Usually falling in late January or February, the Chinese Lunar New Year is the domestic movie industry’s most important period for box office ...

In Liu of a final agreement

Economy Does ‘phase one’ trade deal signal merely a truce in Sino-US…

Donald Trump was in his favourite place – the limelight – on Wednesday, when the TV networks were struggling to decide where to focus their ...

Environment China bans fishing in the Yangtze for 10 years to rejuvenate…

In 1994 China’s post office launched a Rmb2.1 stamp featuring various types of paddlefish. The stamps were meant to celebrate the rare freshwater ...

Healthcare Shanghai biotech company to raise over $100 million on Nasdaq

“The first criterion for us to invest in a company is that it does not make much money,” Zhang Lei, founder of Hillhouse Capital, told a conference ...

Election landslide

Cross Strait Tensions will persist as Taiwan chooses Tsai

In early 2019 relations across the Taiwan Strait began with a gathering in Beijing to commemorate the 40th anniversary of ‘The Message of Compatriots ...

The war on weibo

China and the World Iranian diplomats clash with their US counterparts, as netizens watch

Some of China’s historians regard the 1904 Russo-Japanese War as one of the greatest insults to China’s territorial integrity. Despite knowing that ...

Olivia’s Cambridge Diary

Education, Society Spanish for beginners

In sociolinguistics, we talk about learning languages as accumulating “linguistic capital” – investments with stable returns both personally and ...

Entertainment Thanks to China’s growing love of pets a new movie has…

When his cat Garlic died, Huang Yu was so heartbroken that he thought he should try to clone its corpse. That unusual expression of grief led him to ...

Jiangsu wins war on poverty

Society The province announces only 17 people now live in poverty

In July next year China’s ruling Communist Party will mark 100 years since its founding. Connected to the centenary is a goal to make China a ...

Healthcare Outbreak claims first two deaths

Last week WiC wrote about an unidentified pneumonia that sickened 59 people in the central city of Wuhan. Since publication news has emerged that two ...

Dual destinations

Planet China E-commerce has made life much easier for Chinese consumers but sometimes…

E-commerce has made life much easier for Chinese consumers but sometimes it can result in costly blunders too. That’s what happened to Liu Tianqi and ...

Keswick’s take on China

Sino-File “The Chinese are very like Americans, or perhaps the way Americans…

Tessa Keswick discusses her experiences of China with the Sunday Times. The 77 year-old wife of Jardine Matheson’s former taipan Henry Keswick added: ...

Tycoon sets London record

Cartoons Tycoon sets London record

There was a new record for a house purchase in the UK last week in what The Times described as “the latest sign that London’s languid housing ...

A very retro look

And Finally Traditional Han Chinese clothing is getting trendy

Su Yan is a twenty-something woman who likes to dress up in hanfu – traditional Han Chinese clothing. She is not alone. Millions of young ...