Archive for the ‘trends’ Category
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Having been away from my hometown for four years, I have no idea how much money I should give for a good friend of mine who is getting married there.
In the most expensive Chinese city, Shanghai, if a colleague invites you to their wedding, the hongbao, or red envelope full ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
During my last trip to Beijing, my wallet was surprisingly swollen with paper money of one jiao, five jiao, and one yuan denomination. This is totally different than in Shanghai, where I get one-yuan paper money now and then, rarely see paper one-jiao notes, and can’t even remember when ...
Posted in Claire Li, RMB, trends | No Comments »
Monday, February 18th, 2008
A friend of mine just started a job at the Beijing branch of American Express. She's the only foreigner on the staff, and it seems all of her co-workers have been trying to make sure she doesn't break a single Chinese cultural taboo. They were shocked, SHOCKED, I say, that ...
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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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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 12th, 2007
Anyone who’s ever travelled with a Chinese tour group knows the drill: the coach pulls up at some ungodly hour of the morning. You stumble on board and doze off, hoping that when you wake up you will have been magically transported to the Terracotta Warriors, or the Great Wall, ...
Posted in trends, Consumer, Matthew Plowright | No Comments »
Friday, November 16th, 2007
Natalie Portman is coming to China!
Okay I speak too soon. Her involvement is unofficial enough that it's still listed as "rumored" on the IMDB page, but it is heavily rumored that Portman will play the main role in a live-action Walt Disney sorta-remake of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves." ...
Posted in trends, Eveline Chao | No Comments »
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
As most people who work in a Chinese office will have noticed, it is fairly common to see a Chinese co-worker put their head down on their desk for a quick, impromptu nap. The first time I commented on this, a western friend of mine who worked at Caijing told ...
Posted in trends, America, Eveline Chao | 2 Comments »
