Get Connected: Why Are Foreign Dignitaries Increasingly Turning to Weibo?
May 23, 2012 Comments (2) Tagged with: Chinese Blogs & Netizens
From IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde wishing to former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, these days, it seems that foreign dignitaries are increasingly turning to China's Weibo (microblogging) platform to better connect with Chinese netizens. But why? Read More>>
It’s a Hard-Knock Life: The Difficulties of Being a Single Mother in China
May 20, 2012 Comments (5) Tagged with: Lifestyle
As a consequence of the country's rising divorce rate, the number of single mothers in China has increased exponentially in recent years. A recent survey showed that among the number of divorced households, 67 percent had a child, and that following the divorce, only one in six men choose to take care of the child. Read More>>
Wealthy Chinese: Who Are They? Where Does Their Money Come From?Hot
May 16, 2012 Comments (13) Tagged with: Lifestyle
Who are the “wealthy Chinese” and where does their money come from? If commodity prices in China's biggest cities are even more expensive than those in much of the West, then China must also have a larger group of wealthy people to sustain these higher prices, right? Read More>>
Death of Only Adult Child: Little Support for Grieving Chinese Parents
May 13, 2012 Comments (9) Tagged with: Lifestyle
For parents everywhere, the death of a child is one of life's greatest misfortunes. Nowhere is this truer than in China, where the One Child Policy has brought about a new “childless” parents phenomenon – elderly parents who lose their only child, and are forced to cope with the loss alone, as society does not yet know how to address such an issue. Read More>>
Masters of Deception: How Chinese Companies Become “Foreign”
May 09, 2012 Comments (15) Tagged with: News & Current Affairs
For the last year, the Italian Trade Commission has been locked in a struggle against Chinese companies that market their brands as “Italian made”, thereby taking advantage of the consumer preference for foreign-made goods in order to sell inferior products at higher prices. Read More>>
China’s Club Fed: A Look Inside Qincheng Prison
May 06, 2012 Comments (3) Tagged with: History & Culture
Qincheng Prison, undoubtedly the most well-known in China, is a maximum security prison located in Beijing. The prison, built in 1958 with aid from the Soviet Union, has housed old Manchu officials, KMT nationalists, the “gang of four” and corrupt high officials. Read More>>
Why are Chinese so Concerned About Saving Face?Hot
May 02, 2012 Comments (51) Tagged with: History & Culture
Mianzi, or face, is something so ingrained in Chinese culture it dominates interactions and considerations. Be it for the nation's leaders, or its common citizens, saving face takes precedence over all other factors. But what is it really? Chinese writer Dashuwugen explains… Read More>>
Top 10 Most Expensive Tourist Attractions in China
Apr 29, 2012 Comments (1) Tagged with: Travel
Believe it or not, entrance tickets to many of China's "scenic spots" are actually more expensive than those in other countries, with admission tickets often costing around 200 RMB during the peak travel season. Here are the top 10 most expensive tourist attractions in China. Read More>>
Catch Me if You Can: How Many Fugitives are There in China?
Apr 25, 2012 Comments (18) Tagged with: News & Current Affairs, Surveys and Opinions
Reports about fugitives being caught years later have been appearing in Chinese media recently. While the crimes these fugitives committed are certainly deplorable, what’s most unnerving is that there are many more out there who haven’t been caught. Read More>>
Coping Mechanism: Hotline Helps Chinese Women Deal with Husband’s Adultery
Apr 22, 2012 Comments (45) Tagged with: History & Culture, Lifestyle
In an interview with reporters, the representative for China’s oldest women’s psychological counselling hotline, noted that despite the changing times, one thing has remained pretty much the same: a lot of women call in to talk about their husband's adultery and how to deal with it. Read More>>
Crap Apps? Why Chinese Consumers Won’t Pay for Smart Phone Apps
Apr 18, 2012 Comments (4) Tagged with: Health, Technology & Science
The recent news of Facebook’s billion dollar acquisition of iPhone photo app company Instagram, has prompted some to question China’s very own app market and why Chinese consumers are so reluctant to spend money on them. Read More>>
Working Hard or Hardly Working? Trends in China’s Leisure Economy
Apr 15, 2012 Comments (0) Tagged with: Lifestyle
Late last month, CCTV's financial channel released the results of its sixth annual Economic Life Survey, which depicts China's economic trends in 2011 and searches for the internal driving forces of the country’s future development. A new feature in this year's survey was the additional inquiry of people's leisure time and leisure activities. Read More>>
Violent Doctor-Patient Cases: What’s Wrong with China’s Healthcare System?
Apr 11, 2012 Comments (33) Tagged with: News & Current Affairs
After being diagnosed with tuberculosis at a hospital in Harbin, Li Mengnan left the hospital feeling that his doctor had deliberately refused to treat his illness. Furious, Li returned with a knife and attacked several medical practitioners, injuring three and killing one. Read More>>
Slowly but Surely: Image of Chinese Companies Overseas Improving
Apr 08, 2012 Comments (10) Tagged with: Surveys and Opinions, Business
In January, the results of the 2011 “Chinese Companies in the Eyes of Foreigners” survey were published. The survey analyses various elements of the perception of Chinese brands abroad, including their overall image of Chinese companies, their awareness of these Chinese companies and their attitude towards them. Read More>>
8 Facts & Figures You Didn’t Know About China’s Biz & Technology
Apr 04, 2012 Comments (0) Tagged with: Business
The Chinese publication IT Time Weekly features a weekly section called “figuratively speaking”–a pun on its use of eye-catching numbers and percentages to list the week’s big stories in Chinese business and technology. The following article recaps a selection of the most notable items to come out the section over the last few months. Read More>>
A "Who's-Who" of Influential Business Leaders in China
Mar 31, 2012 Comments (0) Tagged with: Business
On March 29th, Fortune (China) published a list of "The 50 Most Influential Business Leaders in China". At the top of the list is Ren Zhengfei – a former Major in the PLA, an elected member of the 12th National Congress of the CPC and the founder and president of Huawei Technologies. Read More>>
Lavish Living: Tracking the Consumer Habits of Wealthy Chinese
Mar 29, 2012 Comments (5) Tagged with: Lifestyle
On March 27th, Hurun Report and the Industrial Bank jointly published a report entitled "The Chinese Luxury Consumer White Paper 2012", which tracked the recent consumer habits of "high-net-worth individuals" (HNWI) in China. Read More>>
Beggars Can be Choosers: Man Travels China on Nationwide “Begging Tour”
Mar 25, 2012 Comments (3) Tagged with: Lifestyle
Brother Sharp, eat you heart out – there’s a new beggar sensation in China and his name is Zhou Fei. Over the last month or so, Zhou Fei, the self described “most niu beggar in China” has been causing quite a stir with Chinese netizens for his unique methods and personality. Read More>>
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