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Columns & Interviews Tech, Media & Telecom

Billion dollar ambition

Hiring – and then empowering – local talent is a wise first move for foreigners keen to make a mint in China

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Columns & Interviews Consumer

Flying French

Frank Legré of Air France says his airline’s taste of ‘haute couture’ is wooing Chinese passengers

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Columns & Interviews Politics & Society

History in the balance

China’s Brave New World – And Other Tales for Global Times By Jeffery N. Wasserstrom; Indiana University Press; US$21.95 The term “globalization” is often talked about as a great homogenizing force still unfolding. The near ubiquity of US fast food and pop culture is often held up as evidence of the world’s descent into “Americanization.” […]

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Columns & Interviews Travel & Leisure

Into Sichuan

Graham Earnshaw walks from Shanghai to Tibet when he has the time, always starting from the last place he stopped. This month we find him in the eastern-most part of Chongqing Municipality

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Columns & Interviews Economics & Trade

A call for calm

Thanks to a robust domestic economy and a relatively small US export share, China can weather the storms of 2008