Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Our March issue is largely about female business women, as I commented about here. I didn't really think of the consequences of this until we got into our heavy editing phase, but then I suddenly remembered... I'm horribly attracted to business women. I mean, I may be 15 years younger ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Luxury brands have flooded into China over the past decade in a bid to capitalize on China’s growing band of wealthy consumers. And consume they most certainly have have, usually in the most conspicuous way imaginable. Buying an expensive car, a diamond-studded watch or a designer suit was a sign ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Some brainiac over at "The China Game" (which seems to be a blog linked to some cookie cutter China consultancy) has decided that Apple has cured video piracy once and for all. His thesis is that renting a movie for 3$ will be better for most people than paying 1$ ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
“Oh, you’ll love it,” the middle-aged shopkeeper said to me. “You foreigners love history and the new Qianmen Street they are building will be very historic.” “But how can something new be historic?” I asked. “Oh, it’s not new, it’s old. It will look just like it did when I ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Its times like this that I'm glad I work with Macro-economics:
A sudden spike in the demand for pet rodents, inspired by the start of the "Year of the Rat", has forced the price of hamsters up by as many as six times in China, state media reported Wednesday.
Prior to the ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
A friend of mine just started a job at the Beijing branch of American Express. She's the only foreigner on the staff, and it seems all of her co-workers have been trying to make sure she doesn't break a single Chinese cultural taboo. They were shocked, SHOCKED, I say, that ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
I know that's a glamourous title for a post that is essentially just me bitching. I spent 3 hours trying to buy a Palm TX this weekend. I was eventually successful, but the adventure led to my credit card being frozen. I'm now trying to manage the time difference and calling ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Time Asia's cover story this week is called The Short March (groan) and is described as follows:
In a migration dwarfing that of America after 1945, millions of newly affluent Chinese are moving to the vast suburbs rising on the fringes of the country's megacities. This is the story of ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
A handful of friends and I have frequently commented that it seems like the most successful people in China are the ones with the least education. Of course, we don't actually have any substantive data to support this belief; we just know of a few successful Chinese friends here and ...
Posted in Book Review, Eveline Chao | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Speaking to my American friends and colleagues, it has always struck me how China is, rightly, held up as a major issue by US politicians, yet is still largely a marginal issue in UK government circles. Sure, the papers are full of China stories, but, bar occasional state visits or ...
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