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Chinatranslated - signing off 17 Feb 2011 | 12:59 am
Dear Readers, After 2 years, 287 posts, and approaching half a million hits, I am taking a break from Chinatranslated. I have recently started work with the Wall Street Journal’s Beijing Bureau as the...
Darkness Under the Hawthorn Tree? 11 Feb 2011 | 01:50 am
The standard narrative about the career of Chinese film director Zhang Yimou is that he has sold out. Early films like The Story of Qiu Ju, Raise the Red Lantern, and To Live, shone a light on diffic...
Back to the Future 31 Jan 2011 | 11:02 pm
A little-noticed milestone in the history of China’s technological development was passed this month. On January 10, a train testing the new Beijing-Shanghai high speed rail line was clocked at 487 km...
Drilling into China’s oil sector 19 Jan 2011 | 04:38 pm
Oil at around USD70/barrel over the course of the last year has taken energy prices off the agenda. But with the global recovery now apparently on track, and exploration for new sources of crude on h...
Monopolising the benefits of China’s Development 13 Jan 2011 | 02:41 pm
Is China a market economy or a socialist economy? On the surface, it looks a lot like a market economy. At the street level, the diversity of offerings available to consumers in the food, clothes, a...
The 5986 Formula and the Secrets of Vanke’s Success 11 Jan 2011 | 07:10 pm
2010 was not a bad year for Vanke. Despite two attempts by the government to pop the property bubble, China’s biggest real estate developer still managed to shift more than CNY100bln in apartments, 8...
A Great Country Must Have a Military Spirit - the View from the PLA 17 Dec 2010 | 10:52 pm
A recent article by General Luo Yuan of the Chinese Academy of Military Science published in the Global Times has been attracting a lot of attention for its call for a revival of China’s military spir...
Growing vegetables is labor intensive - the view from Ba Shusong 8 Dec 2010 | 10:05 pm
China is currently suffering from another nasty bout of inflation, with speculation that the CPI will push up close to 5% yoy in November, and the Central Bank will make another pull on the interest r...
Exchange rate politics - Central Bank lays down a marker 30 Nov 2010 | 08:47 pm
The Chinese government might do a decent job of presenting a united front on economic policy. But in reality, on the major issues, there are a fierce debates between different interests and instituti...
China’s Utilitarian Blind Spot - the view from Zhou Guoping 19 Nov 2010 | 10:30 pm
A hundred years of national humiliation for China, stretching from the Opium Wars in the middle of the 19th Century to the Japanese invasion in the middle of the 20th, has prompted a prolonged period ...
