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Land of the 土u

As in most countries, in China there is a significant chunk of culture devoted to landowner hatred. Just as they look down upon their subjects, so in China the common people shall pour ridicule on their outlandish, pretentious ways....

Big Data… Big Money… Big Brother

2016 is set to be the year of big data. Given its implications and the population of China, this means very very big data. It also means different things for different people. China Daily is content...

When Team Building Ends up Meaning Kissing Rubbish Bins

While some may complain about being fed up with clichéd team-building activities; starting the day with a scavenger hunt, spending the afternoon in a boring keynote speaker session and heading home with cheap coffee mugs emblazoned with a company...

Building a Chinese Team

“Recover a top secret isotope from a crashed spacecraft and along the way set off an explosive while nobody is inside the indicated blast radius.” Such was the challenge laid down by “Now Get Out of That”, a BBC...

NJQR; Scanning Nanjing’s Street Signs

“Wandering around in Nanjing is like shopping in a boutique”, Zhu Ziqing, a famous Chinese essayist from the Republican era, once said. Indeed, 2,500 years of history over ten dynasties has made Nanjing a city like no other. ...

Cooking Up Collectivism

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. But not in China. Once upon a time in Chinese history, there was not only free lunch but also free meals everyday, for everyone. 没有免费的午餐。 但不是在中国。 从前,在中国历史上,不仅有免费午餐,而且每天都有免费餐食。 The People’s Commune was the highest...

Collective Camouflage

As I cycled along the roads of Xianlin campus on my way to class, I was caught by the sight of students donned in military uniforms from head to toe. They were standing to attention with...

Branding Collectivism

China’s insatiable appetite for luxury items and brand names feeds the very nature of collectivism. For the phenomenon itself to survive however, it shall need to weather a more challenging storm; that of the growing generations of younger people...

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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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