The Bro Code | KTV Dancer
on February 3, 2015
An erotic dancer performs for clients inside a KTV in Gejiu, Yunnan province.
Timothy Grose
on February 3, 2015
Timothy A. Grose is an Associate Professor of China Studies at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His work on Uyghur ethno-national identity and ethnic policy in China has been published in The China Journal, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Hau, and other leading academic journals. His 2019 book Negotiating Inseparability in China (Hong Kong University Press) was awarded the 2020 Central Eurasian Studies Society book prize in the social sciences. His commentary on state violence in the Uyghur homeland has been featured in Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, and Vice, among other media outlets.
Minsheng Bank President Resigns Amid Corruption Investigation
Mao Xiaofeng Detention Latest in Widening Anti-Graft Sweep
on February 3, 2015
China Minsheng Banking Corp. said on January 31 that its president has resigned, shortly after people close to the matter said the Communist Party is investigating him for corruption.
Minsheng said in a statement that Mao Xiaofeng had quit as president for personal reasons. The bank named its chairman, Hong Qi, as acting president.
Wealthy Chinese Are Fleeing the Country Like Mad
A ChinaFile Infographic Translation
on February 3, 2015
Last year, Chinese millionaires maxed out the quota for EB-5 visas under the U.S.’s Immigrant Investor Program, and recently it was reported that 90% of Australia’s Significant Investor visas were given to Chinese nationals. All over the world, immigrant investor programs are being flooded with applicants from China.
How to Be a Chinese Democrat: An Interview with Liu Yu
on February 3, 2015
Liu Yu is one of China’s best-known America-watchers. A professor of political science at Tsinghua University, she lived in the U.S. from 2000 to 2007 and now researches democratization in developing countries, including her own. The thirty-eight-year-old became famous in China in 2009 with the publication (in Chinese) of Details of Democracy, a collection of her blogs that described how politics works in America.
Jonathan Watts
on February 2, 2015
Jonathan Watts is a former East Asia correspondent for The Guardian, who specialized in environment and development issues in China and the wider region during his time in Beijing from 2003 to 2012. He is the author of the eco-travelogue When a Billion Chinese Jump: Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change and became closely involved in media freedom issues during a spell as President of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China. A former Tokyo correspondent (1996-2003), he has also covered events in Mongolia and on the Korean peninsula, as well as reporting on the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Watts is currently based in Rio de Janeiro and working as Latin American correspondent for The Guardian. He is a self-proclaimed amateur llamologist.
Shanghai and the Future Now
A Sinica Podcast
on February 2, 2015
Expats in Beijing may be partial to our rugged smogtropolis, but even the most diehard northerner will admit that Shanghai is the more romantic of the two cities, with its very name conjuring up images of 19th century opium dens, jazz bars in the 1930s, and a sort of transcendent cosmopolitanism that connects the mystique of the city's international past with its almost tangible hunger for the future. Yet it was only really in the early-to-mid-1990s that Shanghai pulled away from its status as a second-tier city and began re-establishing itself as the world's future city.
Rolling In It
on February 2, 2015
How one might best translate “Bling Dynasty” into Chinese, I have no real idea. (Maybe “A Possessor of Uncouth Wealth,” Tuhao wangchao (土豪王朝), “Era of Dazzlement,” Liangxia shidai (亮瞎时代), or even the more straightforward “Bling Dynasty,” Buling-buling chao (不领不领王朝).
China’s Water-Energy-Food Roadmap
on February 1, 2015
The water-energy-food nexus is creating a complicated challenge for China and the world. Energy development requires water. Moving and cleaning water requires energy. Food production at all stages—from irrigation to distribution—requires water and energy. As the most populous country and the world’s manufacturing hub, China demands all three resources in ever increasing amounts, leading to shortages that are creating serious choke points to the country’s development. Pressure on water is at the heart of these resource constraints facing China. While there are no easy solutions to these water-energy-food issues, this Roadmap aims to spark discussions and debates empowering Chinese stakeholders and their partners to explore appropriate frameworks to address China’s water-energy-food chokepoints.
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