Category: China

Summer’s Over

  The dog days of summer are finally over. I can finally wear a jacket. It’s been a long, long time since I last updated. However, I did
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Chinese Carousel of Progress

The Australian broadcasters SBS released a report of the purported Chinese real estate bubble. Throughout several parts of China, ghost towns and malls are cropping up. They aren’t
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Marriage Market in People’s Park

So here’s a cultural oddity: Every weekend in People’s Park hundreds of families come together and create a real-world dating site. Traditionally, from what I’ve read, it’s a parent’s
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Ordering Beef and Getting Pork

So if there’s one GIANT systemic problem preventing China from becoming a fully industrialized first-world country, its the problems with food safety. If you haven’t done so already,
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Ulysses S. Grant Wine — in China

It appears Barack Obama isn’t the only president having his image misappropriated by businesses in China. Profiteers have since decided being “all about the Benjamins” was too 1999. It’s
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