Potential buyers survey pigs at a livestock market on the outskirts of Renqiu city, Hebei province.
on June 23, 2015
Potential buyers survey pigs at a livestock market on the outskirts of Renqiu city, Hebei province.
Alibaba is Selling US E-Commerce Site 11 Main Just a Year After it Opened
on June 23, 2015
Alibaba’s been more tentative in the U.S. than it has in China, because it is a latecomer in a mature market.
Cecilia Miao
on June 23, 2015
Cecilia Miao is a freelance public relations specialist based in Beijing, specializing in cross-cultural communications between the U.S. and China. She is the founder and chief producer of Channel C, a YouTube channel with videos about overseas Chinese students. Miao graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2013 with a degree in political science and journalism. She was born and raised in Guangzhou and speaks Hakka, Cantonese, and Mandarin.
Matt Sheehan
on June 23, 2015
Matt Sheehan covers China for The WorldPost (a partner site of ChinaFile) and The Huffington Post. For the past five years, he has lived and worked between Xi’an, Beijing, and the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to covering China, he also works and writes about the developing ties between California and China. More of is writing is available on his blog, An Optimist’s Guide to China.
The Brother Orange Saga
on June 23, 2015
The story started when a Buzzfeed editor lost his iPhone in an East Village bar in February of last year and blossomed into the Sino-American romance of the century, and probably the most up-lifting and altogether unlikely China story that we can remember. It features Apple products, global crime networks, human flesh search engines, the draw of instant celebrity, and Ellen DeGeneres. Who can resist the cross-cultural romance of Matt Stopera and Brother Orange?
China Voice: Cooperation Prevails Over Confrontation in China-U.S. Ties
on June 22, 2015
The dialogues will help pave the way for President Xi Jinping's state visit to the U.S. in September.
Why Fukuyama Still Beats a Drum for Democracy
on June 22, 2015
American author and political scientist Francis Fukuyama has long extolled the virtues of democracy against the backdrop of the Soviet Union’s collapse and the end of the Cold War.
Fukuyama’s best-selling book The End of History and the Last Man tapped into the spirit of that dramatic period more than 25 years ago by proclaiming liberal democracy the last stop on history’s long road.
The Village and the Girl
on June 22, 2015
The destruction of rural China became for pig farmer Xiao Zhang a liberation and an opportunity.
David Frost
on June 20, 2015
David Frost has been Chief Executive Officer of the South African Tourism Services Association (SATSA) since 2013. A trained economist, Frost has an extensive background in public and private sector strategy. Prior to taking his position at SATSA, he was the founder and Managing Director of The Tourism Strategy Company, a consultancy that specializes in tourism strategies for countries and regions, and assists private sector companies with improved competitiveness.
Hunt for Deep Panda Intensifies in Trenches of U.S.-China Cyberwar
on June 20, 2015
Deep Panda is one of several hacking groups that cybersecurity companies accuse of hacking U.S. networks.