Live-Streaming Apps Flourish in China
on May 12, 2016
Welcome to China’s flourishing, new reality-show industry, where regular people use smartphones to live stream whatever suits their whims.
China, Taiwan Add Tourists to Their Squabbles
on May 12, 2016
"China is using its tourists as a bargaining chip against Taiwan's new government," said Lu Shiao-ya, chief of the National Joint Association of Tourist Buses.
Huya Bridges China's Novel Drugs With Overseas Markets
on May 12, 2016
When Mireille Gillings, founder and chairman of Huya Bioscience International first visited China in 2004, she saw a niche that could grow.
Jamil Anderlini
on May 12, 2016
Jamil Anderlini is the Financial Times’ Asia Editor, appointed in 2015. He oversees the FT’s coverage of the Asia region from Afghanistan to Australia, including China, India, Indonesia, and Japan. He joined the FT in 2007 and worked as Beijing Correspondent and Deputy Beijing Bureau Chief before he was named Beijing Bureau Chief in 2011, with overall responsible for China coverage. He is fluent in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese. Anderlini regularly contributes commentary for other media, including CNN, BBC, CNBC, ABC, and Al-Jazeera.
Anderlini has won numerous reporting prizes, both individually and as part of FT teams. In 2010, he was named Journalist of the Year at the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Editorial Excellence Awards and won the Best Digital Award at the Amnesty International Media Awards. Other prizes include a UK Foreign Press Association Award in 2008, several individual SOPA awards, and the inaugural Jones-Mauthner Award in 2012, which recognizes outstanding reporting of international affairs by a young reporter at the Financial Times. In 2013, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and short-listed for both Foreign Reporter of the Year at the Press Awards in the UK and also the Orwell Prize, the UK's most prestigious prize for political writing.
Prior to joining the FT, Anderlini was Beijing Business Correspondent for the South China Morning Post for two years. Before that, he was Chief Editor of the China Economic Review. He is the author of the e-book The Bo Xilai Scandal: Power, Death, and Politics in China, published by Penguin and the Financial Times in 2012.
China's Middle-Class Anxieties
on May 12, 2016
They get that the cause of their various discontents is the one-party system, but they also appreciate that the system underwrites their comfortable lives.
Chinese Is Not a Backward Language
Critics Who Say It’s Unfit for the Digital Age Are Peddling a Rebooted Version of Orientalism
on May 12, 2016
Even in the age of China’s social media boom, and billion-dollar valuations for Beijing-based IT start-ups, prejudice against the Chinese language is alive and well. One would be forgiven for thinking that by 2016, the 20th century’s widespread critiques of racism, colonialism, and Social Darwinism would have sounded the death knell of 19th-century orientalism, which viewed China and the Chinese language through a condescending, colonialist lens.
The Latest U.S.-China Trade Spat Is over Chicken
on May 12, 2016
The Obama administration has accused China of unfairly blocking U.S. poultry imports, the latest in a series of election-year trade disputes between Washington and Beijing.
China Party Mouthpiece Echoes Soros' Debt Fears
on May 12, 2016
‘Authoritative’ source warns party paper of ‘deadly’ risk to economy.
Undaunted By China's Rulebook, Lesbian Couple Has Twins Via Surrogacy
on May 12, 2016
Chinese women Rui Cai and Cleo Wu gave birth to twins last month, following a successful in-vitro fertilization.
Who Is Xi?
on May 12, 2016
More than halfway through his five-year term as president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party—expected to be the first of at least two—Xi Jinping’s widening crackdown on civil society and promotion of a cult of personality have disappointed many observers, both Chinese and foreign, who saw him as destined by family heritage and life experience to be a liberal reformer. Many thought Xi must have come to understand the dangers of Party dictatorship from the experiences of his family under Mao’s rule.
