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What A Year

Landed last night after 10 days in Singapore and Malaysia. The trip makes my regular NY-Shanghai commute seem trivial. Twenty six hours each way. The good news is I caught up on some reading. Two books to recommend. “The Party: …

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How Soccer Explains The World – China Version

Interesting news out of England today. French National, Nicolas Anelka, one of the deadliest strikers in European Football over the last ten years, has signed a contract

Why Did Beijing Ban Some TV Advertising? Or, Why a Lack of Talent Shows Could Harm China Part 2

I have been writing a bit lately about the moves Beijing has been making in curtailing media content. Last month I made the case that by curtailing

A Review of “Chinglish” a new play By David Henry Hwang

"In America we have laws and contracts so that we can create predictable outcomes. In China no such system exists but the same desire for predictable outcomes

Dirty Jobs – And I don’t Mean “With Mike Rowe”

Jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. The word that is on everyone's mind. There aren't enough of them. There aren't enough of the right

WHY A LACK OF TV TALENT SHOWS COULD STOP THE RISE OF CHINA

This may reek of hyperbole, it may strike you as overly dramatic, it may sound like me departing from my usual optimism, and you may be right on

Play hard, work hard

Excuses, excuses, excuses. Sorry about the low post volume. We had our company retreat in the mountains and lakes of Zhejiang Province. Mountain climbing, boating, whitewater

Happy Labor Day

Happy Labor Day everyone from me and everyone at Technomic Asia. Have a safe, happy and relaxing holiday. I am promising that I will not check my China twitter,

Odds and Ends from the Chinasphere

A couple of irreverent, insightful, and humorous commentaries from my blog roll. The always interesting, always charming and always funny Ms. Janet Carmosky. Her new series "China What"

www.beijingownsthenet.com

First they came for Baidu, then they came for Weibo...how soon you Taobao? Sina Weibo has taken steps to warn users against spreading rumors and false reports. I

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