Archive for the ‘Eveline Chao’ Category
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Interesting commentary from a Bloomberg News columnist about China's female shortage. It mentions a Goldman report that says that promoting the education, health, & general development of women in developing countries could actually help their economies. Our finance editor Bradley Gardner called my attention to the Goldman report last month while we were putting together ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Thanks to my friend Liz for sending this to me:
See below reflections on Wu Yi's retiring, by your State Council Information Office (SCIO). That's a really awesome poem. I am sort of in awe of the intersection of poetry and politics.
I feel light all over.
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2008-03/08/content_12000268.htm
Her transcendent spirit and reclusive sentiment ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Time Asia's cover story this week is called The Short March (groan) and is described as follows:
In a migration dwarfing that of America after 1945, millions of newly affluent Chinese are moving to the vast suburbs rising on the fringes of the country's megacities. This is the story of ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
A handful of friends and I have frequently commented that it seems like the most successful people in China are the ones with the least education. Of course, we don't actually have any substantive data to support this belief; we just know of a few successful Chinese friends here and ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
A couple months ago, a friend of mine paid somewhere between RMB 4,000-5,000 for a year-long membership to a gym. The gym was called Bomai and it was located in the Oriental Kenzo building by Dongzhimen (in Beijing). A few weeks ago, she went to work out as usual, gym ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
A few quick sundry items:
1. I love this quote:
“The Chinese are probably the best capitalists that communism will ever have given birth to.”
That was said by one Michelle Applebaum, head of an independent steel equity research firm in Chicago, in a Feb. 2 New York Times article about Chinalco + ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Here's a link to an amusing and China-relevant (amusing in its China-relevance, really) blog post titled How to Negotiate Like an Indian. Here's an excerpt below (the excerpt is followed in the post by a list of tips.)
In India, every transaction — EVERY transaction — is negotiated. Merchandise, cab fare, ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Wow. My friend Yam Ki just alerted me to this article in the New York Times. Basically, the World Bank's measure of the purchasing power parity rate in China was based on numbers from the 1980s. This year those numbers got updated and, hey, it turns out that the Chinese ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
There was an amusing article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday that pointed out that nearly all older, prominent Chinese men seem to dye their hair black. The article also touched, very briefly, on what I thought was one interesting (although not entirely convincing) reason why:
Experts say that obsessing about ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Well, all this talk about the rising price of pork and eggs has finally entered my life in a tangible way - the price of stir-fried eggs 'n' tomato at the homestyle restaurant near my apartment went up 3 kuai. I'll have to order a pork dish next time to ...
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