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Cars & Credit; 15 Years on from WTO

Look outside. Count the number of foreign badges you see on cars versus those of Chinese auto manufacturers. Don’t be embarrassed that you are not sure about some of them. Even discounting this “unknown” category, the foreign dominance of...

A4 Waist or Super Skinny Scary Chinese Barbie?

Meet Jacqueline Chen. A girl from my gym who always adds one more practice to her workout routine; taking sweaty selfies. Every time she flaunts her toned abs and robust legs on WeChat, her screen is sure to be...

Expat Graduates

With an increasing number of high school graduates deciding to attend university, it is those that spend their high school years immersed in the multicultural world of international schools that prosper greatly.  Despite some aspects of...

Choices Between Realities

Did you think about life after graduation before graduating from college? Lots of students in Nanjing Normal University have. The word “graduation” is a symbol of choices to be made; the start of something new. As...

Third Degree Graduate

In Chinese society, the great cultural importance put on education cannot be overstated. It is what most children have their lives based around; witness the many teenagers coming home on the metro late in the evening after cramming and...

Reverse Cultural Shock

“Welcome to Vancouver International Airport”, the pilot announced. I saw a ramshackle cluster of aging low-rise buildings which compared poorly with any of the train stations and airports I have visited in China. After the glitz...

Crazy Rich Chinese; @Children of the Yuan

Although they don’t know how to create wealth, they surely know how to show it off. The high profile, "Fuerdai" (富二代) or “Trust Fund Kids”, has become the most loathed group in this country, but that didn’t stop them...

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Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

These things often start, not with a statistic, but with a voice; Persian heard in a lift, a WeChat...

Why Chinese Men Can’t Quit; Smoking, Face and the State

China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark:...

US Dept of Justice Says Nanjing Firm Hacked NASA, Senate & More

A sharp new cyber case has put a Nanjing company at the centre of a much wider political row....

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