Opposing the construction of petrochemical plants making Paraxyline (PX), a key ingredient in plastic bottles and polyester clothing, has been one of the most common forms of environmental activism for China’s urban residents in the past decade.
Matthew Crabbe has been analyzing the consumer economy of China for over two decades. He has specialist knowledge about the development of China’s consumer lifestyles and retail market. Crabbe has three published books to his name, most recently Myth-Busting China’s Numbers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He is currently Director of Research for Mintel Asia-Pacific.
To ensure its survival, the Chinese Communist Party has decided that it must control the Internet.
The verdict came five months after the trial, a delay that lawyers said suggested some indecision about the case.
Obama worries the new bank will compete with the Western-led World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
This week, a blockbuster movie celebrating speedy cars and the racing life landed atop China’s box office. The Hollywood import Fast and Furious 7 grossed $63 million in one day (as reported by Bloomberg), the most-ever for a single title in that market.
Andrew Batson is Director of China Research at the independent research firm Gavekal Dragonomics. He manages its team of researchers in Beijing, writes and comments regularly on the Chinese economy, and frequently speaks to business and academic audiences.
Batson has lived and worked in China since 1998, and over the course of his career as an analyst and journalist he has written hundreds of articles on Chinese business, government, economics, and society. Before joining Gavekal in 2011, he was an award-winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in Beijing and Hong Kong. He has also been a software engineer, a consultant, and treasurer of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China. Batson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and educated at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
Kevin Frayer, a freelance photographer who works for Getty News in China, has won the 2015 Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award. Diana Markosian, 25, was selected for the fund’s emerging photojournalist award.
On April 13, Chinese authorities released on bail five feminist activists detained for over a month without formal charges. Despite tight censorship surrounding their detention, support on Chinese social media and thinly veiled media criticism showed that many in China opposed the detention.
One of many tunnels in Kashgar’s old city designed to protect from the desert sun, 2009.
