8 Archives | Week In China

Sorry, you have not enabled Javascript for your internet browser, so some of our website's pages may not render as fully as intended.
Please Click here for easy instructions on how to enable Javascript on your browser or consult your IT support staff for help.

Back Issue

WiC 8 (Mar 27, 2009)

Feeling deflated

Economy, Talking Point Is deflation the next fire China’s leaders must fight?

China’s State Council and the moon goddess Chang’e have shared a preoccupation with soft landings in recent weeks. Chang’e has given her name ...

Bottom of the league

Sport Who wants to manage the Chinese national football team?

Mix together an expectant but disillusioned public, a group of overpaid but underperforming players and a string of poor results and who would want to ...

Figure of eight

Economy Why Beijing is so fixated on 8% growth

In an uncertain world, familiar orthodoxies take on a comforting glow. For example, the expectation that the English football team won’t make it past ...

Farm hand phone

Telecoms Why 44 million farmers bought mobile phones

Maybe not everyone in China’s countryside wants a washing machine or a microwave, but apparently most need a mobile phone. Since January, the Chinese ...

From the ground up

Rail & Infrastructure Growing demand for cement belies an industry badly in need of…

It might best be described as turning a crisis into an opportunity. Beichuan was a town that was utterly destroyed by last May’s Sichuan earthquake. ...

Energy & Resources Can a ‘Recycling Supermarket’ solve one of China’s fastest growing problems?

At the Changhong factory in Mianyang, you can see the evolution of the firm’s television products – from the more basic models of the early ...

Battle of the bands

Entertainment Could Cold-blooded Animal rock the world?

Beijing’s rock music scene has come a long way since the 1985 Wham concert at the Workers’ Gymnasium – an event then regarded as the height of ...

Entertainment Shanghai musical about a revolutionary life

Making musicals about complex historical figures is no easy undertaking. Recall the episode of Friends where Joey stars in a musical about Freud, and ...

Stars in their eyes

Entertainment Celebrities angered by new product endorsement rule

Last year may not have been the best one to buy a house. For famous film director Feng Xiaogang it was not a good time to be encouraging others to do ...

The Nixon effect

Society Why firemen are China’s most trusted folk

Public trust, once lost, is difficult to regain again (as Richard Nixon discovered). In China, public trust may be sinking to a new low, thanks to a ...

The Three Warrens

History Lessons Keep your options open?

During the Warring States Period (476-221 BC), Lord Mengchang, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Qi, sent his advisor Feng Yuan to his fief in Xue to ...

Fast Food The dumpling of choice in Shanghai

What is it? Translated literally, Xiao Long Bao means “little basket bun” in Chinese. The bite-size dumpling contains minced ...

The art of speculation

Entertainment China’s modern art market takes a tumble

The Chinese speculate on the contemporary art market just like they do on the horses or the stock market. So not surprisingly, with the Shanghai ...

Energy & Resources Why China has high hopes for biomass energy

Straw tends to be regarded as insubstantial matter; a straw poll is usually a highly provisional one and men ‘made of straw’ are said to be easy to ...

Banking & Finance China’s banks remain bastions of profitability in a world of red…

Given the modest amount of their own capital and their tiny loan-loss reserves, and after taking into account the magnitude of non-performing loans, ...

Planet China Many hospitals perform heart surgery, but a new Chinese hospital focuses…

Many hospitals perform heart surgery, but a new Chinese hospital focuses more on affairs of the heart. The hospital in Changsha provides consulting ...

Carp not TARP for China’s Lin

Cartoons Carp not TARP for China’s Lin

Another clean up plan. A further attempt to fix a toxic legacy. And more talk of improving liquidity. But while Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s ...

What women want

And Finally Or rather what Chinese white collar women want…

What women want. It is a question that few could hope to answer satisfactorily in 400 years, let alone 400 words. But, according to a survey ...