Below are a list of mostly business-related links from the past week (all about China). Thanks to Terrence and Sinocism for most of them. The number in (brackets) is the book chapter that more detailed information about the topic can be found.
- Airports in China Hew to an Unswerving Flight Path from The New York Times (Ch 17)
- Apple Pulls Bookstore App in China Over Illegal Content, FT Says from Bloomberg (Ch 13 & 20)
- Kowtow now from Foreign Policy (Ch 10) this cannot inspire investor confidence
- Gov’t Austerity Slows Orders at Upscale Restaurant Chains from Caixin (Ch 3 & 11)
- Sports where puberty is a disadvantage from The Li-Ning Tower (Ch 8)
- Chinese Education: The Truth Behind the Boasts from Businessweek (Ch 9)
- China Local Debt May Top Estimates, Former Minister Says from Bloomberg (Ch 5 & 17)
- China’s debt issue not particularly serious: former finance minister from Xinhua (Ch 5 & 17)
- China Is Finally Becoming A Lucrative Market For App Makers from TechCrunch (Ch 12 & 13)
- Superyachts, Supercars: Lavish Life Booms in China from Bloomberg (Ch 11) real or dubai-like?
- China Vanke Expanding to U.S. After Customer Emigration from Bloomberg (Ch 4) intercontinental is doing the same thing with hotels
- The Increasingly Astonishing Rise of China’s Film Business from China Film Biz (Ch 14)
- China’s Happy Boxer from The Wall Street Journal (Ch 8) looked like a real smile too!
- Amazon.cn Begins Convenient Pick-up Service In Shanghai from China Tech News (Ch 12)
- Etiquette Catches On in China, Even in Government from The Wall Street Journal (Ch 4) cotillion service providers will never go broke in the next 10 years here…
- Too Much or Not Enough? Robert Downey Jr. Weighs In on Hollywood-China Ties from The Wall Street Journal (Ch 14) self-censorship and the regular variety too
- IPO Bankers Become Frogs in Hot Water Amid China Market Halt from Bloomberg (Ch 5) wonder what shanghai stock index would look like if those IPOs could take place… parabolic like BTC?
- Hong Kong nets only small fry for laundering illegal Chinese money from Reteurs (Ch 5 & 10) i wonder how popular BTC will be for this kind of transaction… i don’t know any chinese people that are familiar with it (yet)
- Out of 300 Million Total, Tencent’s WeChat Has 40 Million Overseas Users from Tech In Asia (Ch 12)
- E-commerce takes a big toll from China Daily (Ch 12 & 13)
- Chinese M-Commerce | Mobile Shopping in China vs. USA [Infographic] from China Internet Guru (Ch 12 & 13)
- Microsoft to build first innovation center in China, has software development in mind from Engadget (Ch 12, 13, 20)
- Nestlé brewing hot cup of promise for Chinese coffee growers from Food Navigator Asia (Ch 3) site is very IP-hawkish
- How Scary Is China’s Shadow Banking System? from Forbes (Ch 5 & WMP)
- Ancient tomb with murals discovered in E China from Xinhua (Ch 17) found while building a parking lot