Chinese cooking school with Teacher Hong
All the classes in my weekend Chinese cooking course are taught by Teacher Hong, a great master of Chinese cooking. How do I …
What prospects for Uber and its Chinese rivals?
A private driver told me “Didi Dache is still new, so who knows if the government might ban it later?” It’s a line that illustrates the difficult relationship that firms on the cutting edge of business innovation often have with Chinese authorities.
Day trip to Jiading
Shanghai is a big city, and the political boundary that defines the municipality is so big that it extends far beyond the …
Why we need a Chinese “Wolf of Wall Street”
It took a manager in a Chinese state-owned enterprise asking me to help double-team his mistress in a Shanghai hotel for me …
A foreigner joins a Red Song choir in Bo Xilai’s Chongqing
The first thing I noticed when I emerged from the airport was a billboard glowing high in an otherwise dark parking area. …
Why are Chinese property advertisements putting office towers on aircraft carriers?
Of the topics that keep China watchers awake at night, two of the most-discussed are aircraft carriers and real estate. China launched its …
China watches Breaking Bad
“After I finished watching this show, I was unsettled for a while, until I opened my nearby copy of Only Socialism can Save America and thought for a long, long time.“
Chinese stereotypes, in more detail
This post discusses the results of the China Autocompleted piece in further detail, with observations that didn’t make the cut for the …
Chinese stereotypes, mapped
Why does the western Chinese region of Xinjiang have “so many terrorists”? And do people from central Henan Province really steal manhole covers? These are just some of the questions that Chinese people ask about themselves and each other. Or at least, those are the questions they ask Baidu, the country’s top search engine.
Chinese bathroom graffiti: gambling
Though less prominent than ads for black market goods and sex, messages for gambling-related services are not uncommon. While on the surface …