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 …
Hu-Su-Zhe-Wan: China’s latest economic super-region
Move over, Beijing. Just weeks after national economic planners declared they would build the area around China’s capital into a 100-million strong …
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.“
Want to get on the right side of China’s regional inequality? Follow the 4 C’s
Analyzing China at the prefectural level both confirms and complicates widely held views of the nation’s wealth gap. Let’s summarize the patterns as the “the four C’s” for besting China’s regional inequality.
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.
China swoons for Captain America
This week, while U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s trip to China was underscoring bilateral tensions between the two powers, the Chinese masses were …
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 …
Chinese bathroom graffiti: sex
After black market goods, the most oft-seen variety of bus station bathroom graffiti deals with sex. There are many iterations on the …
Chinese bathroom graffiti: black market
A huge amount of the graffiti on the walls of China’s bus station bathrooms is dedicated to hawking illegal goods. The list …