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Nov 04, 2010 Comments(1)
Ask anyone who has ever worked as an English teacher in China, and they’ll tell you that the differences between the Chinese and Western education models are vast. Working in a Chinese office can be a shock to the system if you’re more used to ...... Read More>>
Nov 03, 2010 Comments(0)
On October 25th, 2010, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Centre for City and Competitiveness Research, The CASS Institute of Finance and the Trade Economics and Social Sciences Academic Press jointly issued the "National Competitiveness ...... Read More>>
Oct 29, 2010 Comments(0)
Fast food's popularity in China is no secret. Take a walk down the street of any major city and you are sure to pass countless signs for KFC, McDonald's, and Pizza Hut – sometimes within fifty meters of one another. Lest you think this is only a “big ...... Read More>>
Oct 26, 2010 Comments(2)
Every year on October 28th the World Health Organization holds Men's Health Day, but 70% of men don’t’ know about their own holiday. A "Chinese Male Sexual Satisfaction Survey Report" was released in Beijing yesterday to coincide with Men’s ...... Read More>>
Oct 24, 2010 Comments(0)
An article published in The Los Angeles Times on October 20th entitled “For some Chinese college students, sex is a business opportunity”, claimed that along with Chinese economic development comes a more materialistic attitude for the younger ...... Read More>>
Oct 20, 2010 Comments(0)
Hostesses hover in the corner and shield their faces after being rounded up by police. The highly publicized crackdown on sex trade which started from Beijing and swept all over China, has been rearing its head and closing down nightclubs left and right in ...... Read More>>
Oct 17, 2010 Comments(0)
According to a 2008 World Bank report, the GDP per capita purchasing power of the United Kingdom is more than 35,000 U.S. dollars and China’s more than 5900 U.S. dollars, making the United Kingdom about 6 times greater than China. If the disparity ...... Read More>>
Oct 13, 2010 Comments(0)
The World Expo China Pavilion Day (October 1st) and a government sponsored promotion film about China’s image abroad, soon to be broadcast in Western media, hopes to help the world get to know the real China. According to Chinese public opinion, how ...... Read More>>
Oct 10, 2010 Comments(0)
The article below is a translation from a piece written by Shi Shusi in Chinese; Shi is a graduate of Renmin University of China, having majored in journalism. He is director of the major news office with Workers' Daily and has won numerous national and ...... Read More>>
Oct 05, 2010 Comments(1)
Bill Gates and Warren Buffets, two of the wealthiest men in the world, recently came to China, inviting 50-60 people to attend a charity dinner. Though both repeatedly said they would not persuade people to donate money, according to incomplete data, half ...... Read More>>
Sep 29, 2010 Comments(0)
Chinese media has recently published a report entitled "99.5% of Public Surveyed Has Encountered Deception in One Form or Another, Shouldn't This Raise Concerns?" The news has attracted public attention and contention from left and right. Some ...... Read More>>
Sep 26, 2010 Comments(0)
.this_tab1 td{ padding:3px;} With China's rising economic and political prowess, the world has simultaneously turned all eyes on the country. So how is China viewed in the rest of the world following its recent economic achievements? Pew Global Attitudes ...... Read More>>
Sep 22, 2010 Comments(0)
Original article written by Yan Yang in Chinese. In August this year, Guangzhou Police published a draft ordinance entitled “Guangzhou Municipal Government on Stricter Control of Knives for Public Safety.” The draft asks the public and society ...... Read More>>
Sep 13, 2010 Comments(4)
Photo: english.peopledaily.com.cn One of the most frequently quoted (and often derided) tenet about China revolves around its claims to five millennia of history. Even the China National Tourist Office prefaces its operations by claiming that “China, ...... Read More>>
Sep 12, 2010 Comments(0)
I've been born and raised in South Korea and had not traveled much outside of my home country. But from the daily advertisements featured on TV and the internet about the Shanghai Expo, I can't help but feel compelled to want to learn more about different ...... Read More>>
Sep 02, 2010 Comments(1)
At the start of August, a group of female sex workers in Hubei province protested against the treatment of sex workers during recent police crackdowns, and petitioned for the legalization of prostitution. The protest was led by an activist and blogger known ...... Read More>>
Aug 30, 2010 Comments(0)
A few weeks back I turned on the China’s Children’s Network hoping to find one of my son’s favorite shows, In the Night Garden or, perhaps, The Wisdom Tree to keep him entertained while his baby sister napped and I fixed our lunch in the ...... Read More>>
Aug 25, 2010 Comments(0)
Zhang Yimou ranks right alongside Ang Lee as China’s most internationally acclaimed director. Lesser known to the public, is the fact that Zhang Yimou’s films are almost always exclusively produced by Zhang Weiping. Zhang Weiping founded the ...... Read More>>
Aug 23, 2010 Comments(0)
The expat job model is one that has an expiration date to begin with, but some expats are finding that their milk is curdling sooner than they expected. Especially those expats perched on the higher rungs of the career ladder. The Association of Executive ...... Read More>>
Aug 22, 2010 Comments(0)
Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard Mark Hurd About a month ago, then chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Mark Hurd abruptly canceled his previously scheduled trip to China, citing a cold as the reason. Last weekend, he suddenly announced his resignation as the ...... Read More>>
Aug 20, 2010 Comments(0)
It might happen to me 3 or 4 times before I hit the bus stop by my house. First at the bottom of the elevator, another time after I pass the playground, maybe again at the intersection. People are always stopping me in the middle of what I’m doing so they ...... Read More>>
Aug 18, 2010 Comments(0)
Photo: qq.com American billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have announced they will come to China in September to ask for donations from the country's rising ranks of the wealthy and rich. Chinese newspaperman Shi Shusi offers the two famous ...... Read More>>
Aug 16, 2010 Comments(0)
Before you read this article, read Yellow Fever: Why Western Guys Date Chinese Girls, posted on eChinacities last year. Take your time, and be sure to peruse the comments as well. That's why this article keeps catching my attention – people keep ...... Read More>>
Aug 10, 2010 Comments(0)
In February 2001, a British newspaper published a photograph that horrified the nation and turned the accusing eyes of the world to China. A baby girl lay dead in a gutter in Hunan Province, while passersby went about their business all around her. ...... Read More>>
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