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Columns & Interviews Tech, Media & Telecom

Perfect world

For China’s youth, going online means slipping the bonds of social constraint. Marketers must learn how to tap these needs

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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

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Columns & Interviews Law & Regulation

A new deal for labor

China’s new labor legislation has codified and strengthened the employer-employee relationship, says the man who helped develop it

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Columns & Interviews Tech, Media & Telecom

Putting the dragon in its place

Silicon Dragon: How China is Winning  the Tech Race by Rebecca Fannin; McGraw-Hill; US$24.95 Context is key for foreign reporters in China as they try to translate the story for an audience abroad – but it’s devilishly difficult to provide. Journalists will always focus on the exceptions but readers who are unfamiliar with the situation […]

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Columns & Interviews Travel & Leisure

Winter reprise

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 revisiting a stretch of the walk near Shanghai