What we’ve been reading recently:
Telegraph.co.uk – Chinese try to live on less than £10 a week to cope with downturn – Tens of thousands of Chinese people have taken up a challenge to live on the equivalent of less than £10 per week
Economist.com – How China sees the world – And how the world should see China
NYTimes.com – Pingyao Journal: Ghosts of a Faded Gilded Age Haunt a 19th-Century Chinese Banking Hub – The financial crisis has reinforced the sense of nostalgia surrounding Pingyao, one of China’s best-preserved medieval towns
Aimee Barnes – Under the Table: An Introductory Course – Gift-giving/corruption… a global problem with Chinese characteristics
Forbes.com – Chinese Credit – Loan guarantors were key to China’s SMEs’ rise, but they, too, got overextended
NYTimes.com – Capitalism Finds Voice in China TV – At just 31 years old, Rui Chenggang has emerged as the media face of Chinese capitalism: young, smart and, to the dismay of some, deeply nationalistic
Times Online – Red hot chilli peppers keep death off China roads – Police in Chongqing have come up with a novel idea to keep drivers awake on the deadliest roads in the world – supply them with free chili peppers to prevent them falling asleep at the wheel
Xinhua – Identities of three detained anti-China protestors in Nepal – Nepal and the party line
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