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Retail Royalty

So the baby boom that many were expecting since the introduction of the so-called Two-Child Policy has not come to be. That boom is being felt elsewhere; not in the belly but in the pocket of parents and grandparents...

The More Things Change; Education in One-Child China

Since the implementation of the one-child policy some thirty years ago, entire generations of singletons have grown up in the Middle Kingdom. Concerns that only children end up spoiled and socially maladjusted for lack of siblings seemed to be...

Obituary Knut Jaeger; Nanjing Asia Outdoor Founder

Hong Kong, 31st January 2015, and the world of outdoor loses a trailblazer as Mr. Knut Jaeger, 72, founder of Nanjing’s Asia Outdoor Trade Show and Asia Bike Trade Show passes away following a heart attack.  ...

Beyond Materialism

Gucci, Rolex, BMW. Chinese social media tirelessly overflows with pictures of people flaunting their latest ludicrously priced possession; the combination of the rapid rise from extreme poverty to just as extreme wealth and the Chinese cultural phenomenon of “face”...

Where there’s Wealth, there’s Materialism

While understanding China’s consumer culture is certainly a scholarly fashion, and “to get rich is glorious” (Deng, 1992), that contentment has forever been rooted in external endorsement is far from being unique to the Middle Kingdom. ...

Buying Honour; Chinese Consumer Culture

“I measure my success by the things I own.” 71 percent of Chinese respondents agreed with this assessment, according to a survey conducted by IPSOS in September 2014. Leading the pack out of the 20 countries...

Next Stop; Epochal Change

During my recent visit to Nanjing I was waiting in line at Xinjiekou Metro Station for Line 2. The young lad in front of me mentioned something to his female companion containing “Mouchou Hu”. That place name stuck out;...

New Age Workforce

The Internet. We all knew, when it emerged, that our lives were going to change drastically. Yet, only now are we beginning to realise the true extent of the transformation and, looking past all the gloomy...

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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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