Worth US$1.5 billion, Zhang Yin built her fortune on scrap paper. Specifically, hauling trashed paper and cardboard from the US to China to be recycled into boxing, and then typically stuffe... Read more
Bo Yibo, one of the original "Eight Immortals" of Chinese Communist Party lore, has, in defiance of his nickname, died at age 98. Or was he 99? Perhaps state media were counting hi... Read more
As Premier Wen travels around Asia these days trying to assuage fears about his country’s seemingly unstoppable rise to eminent world power, one wonders whether the other regional powe... Read more
Search questions most often typed into Baidu during 2006, by category. (The Virtual China translation was helpful, although I’m still not sure exactly what "dual core" is). N... Read more
Shanghaiist reports this juicy tidbit on the city police closing a tea shop because of its double-entendre name. The hypocrisy of the move is well covered by Shanghaiist, so I’ll just... Read more
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