Below are a list of mostly business-related links from the past two weeks (mostly about China). Thanks to Peter and Sinocism for a few of them.
- China Releases Grim Cancer Statistics from Businessweek
- Announcing China Development Brief’s New Chinese NGO Directory and Special Report from NGOs in China
- Special Issue on Chinese Science Fiction from Depauw Science Fiction Studies (mentioned in footnote 5 in Ch 2, thanks again Geoffrey)
- Asian Megacities, Free and Unfree from City Journal
- Paid audience members turn in best performances on Chinese TV from Want China Times
- Yum’s China Sales Tumble 13% in March from Bloomberg
- State broadcaster CCTV slams anti-Japanese war dramas from South China Morning Post
- Qiaodan Sports Countersues Michael Jordan from The Wall Street Journal (funny and ridiculous at the same time, see footnote 10)
- For Empty Offices in China, It’s Location, Location, Location from The Wall Street Journal
- Apartments near top Beijing school selling for almost 100,000 yuan per sq metre from Shanghaiist
- Why Leave Job in Beijing? To Breathe from The Wall Street Journal
- Furs fly as Chinese consumers drive boom in U.S. mink farming from Reuters
- Microsoft Innovation Center Heads For Chinese Tropical Destination from China Tech News
- Xiaomi CEO Bin Lin aims to ship 15 million superphones in 2013, expand sales beyond Asia from Engadget
- ‘Chinese Google’ Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley from Wired
- With China’s Travel Sector Possibly Depressed, What Will Qunar.com Do With Investment Money? from China Tech News
- China local authority debt ‘out of control’ from Financial Times
- Policy Revision Is More Lenient on Lending to Financing Platforms from Caixin
- Baby food stockpiling in China shields Danone from deteriorating European demand from Quartz
- Underwriter caught up in stock scandal from China Daily
- Kaifu Lee: Rumors of Weibo’s Death Are Exaggerated from Tech In Asia
- LVMH Falls in Paris as Fashion Sales Gain Slowest Since 2009 from Bloomberg
- Masters 2013: Guan Tianlang goes back to homework after wonder week from The Guardian
- Juhuasuan.com Is Alibaba’s Latest Foray Into Hong Kong And Taiwan from China Tech News
- China’s Theaters May Soon Show Tarantino Film from The New York Times
- CICC’s Nicholson Becomes Chinese National from The Wall Street Journal (not quite, HK SAR passport)
- Zopo C2 embraces Aliyun OS, boasts 5-inch 1080p display, 5MP front camera and a low price from Engadget (dear alibaba, leaching off of the open source community is a real d-bag move)
- 27 Signs You Were Raised By Asian Immigrant Parents from BuzzFeed (very funny because it’s true)
- NCR Signs Chinese Bank Agreement For Tech Services from China Tech News
- Appearances Could Deceive at Shanghai Auto Show from The Wall Street Journal
- Chinese restaurants, industry develop taste for robots from Xinhua (month old but still interesting addition to Chapter 7 info)
- The Dark Side: Skin Colour and K-pop from Seoul Beats (to better understand consumer behavior and preference for porcelain skin)
- China’s booming fake muni bonds from Financial Times
- China Factories Moving In Droves To Cambodia/Vietnam/Myanmar/Malaysia. NOT. from China Law Blog
- World Snooker Championship 2013: Ding Junhui feels pressure from BBC