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Going with the Float

Twenty days was all they had between receiving the order and presenting an initial proposal. That’s not all that long when you’ve just been asked to design the Jiangsu float that will be a part of the Tiananmen parade...

The Role Played by Character in China’s Legal System

Most people associate character with moral qualities but the definition also includes non-moral characteristics, behavioural tendencies and patterns of life, things with nothing to do with morality; being mindful of others, shyness or a fondness for cats, etc. Is...

A Royal Success; The Largest Exhibition of Chinese Art Ever

The largest exhibition of Chinese art of all time was not, as one might expect, held in China. Nor was it a recent affair. Beginning on 28 November, 1935, the Royal Academy in London held a monumental exhibition displaying over...

Episode 2A – Confucius and the Mohists; A Challenge from Above

With such confidence that he had found the way to the true Dao, you can imagine the consternation with which Kongzi would have viewed the emergence of competing ideologies. Many of the ideas in early Chinese thought exhibit close...

AI Face Swapping; the Legalities of Personal Data Security

We are now fully immersed in an information society, in which we discover new business and social opportunities that in turn rely on the large amount of data which has been created from our usage, a process in which...

Episode 1B; A Confucian Morning (cont.)

Previously: “You can bring the tea, Xunzi”, Kongzi says speaking as though addressing the open window. “Right away master”, Xunzi hurries out again, giving his companion who has been waiting at the door a sickly leer. Here it is...

Sexual Harassment & Other Illegalities in the Gyms of China

Many trainers dream about starting their own gym one day, but have no experience in running a business. Building your own company is a challenge and there is a long list of gyms that fail within the first year...

China Design Icons 101; A Lowdown on Chinese Logos

Good logos are eye-catching and memorable. Really good logos are eye-catching, memorable and clever. In a country where the symbols of language are much like logos themselves, pictorial signifiers of meaning, we can expect some pretty top-notch stuff. But...

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Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

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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:...

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

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