Posts by: Stan Abrams
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September 21, 2010
If you don't know the historical origin of the mooncake, you're not a good China expat. Right?
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September 6, 2010
The Oxford English Dictionary will now include some Chinese words. Is this the beginning of a massive wave of Western Chinafication?
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August 26, 2010
As usual, a tragic event takes place, and certain individuals take that as some sort of an affront to them, their country, their race. More's the pity.
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July 24, 2010
It's been a year since drunk driver Zhang Mingbao ended the lives of five people in Nanjing and the police began a crackdown. Have we learned anything?
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July 18, 2010
In response to rising crime rates, Beijing has instituted a policy of locking several lower-income neighborhoods overnight.
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July 12, 2010
Business success story Tang Jun lied about his academic credentials, and China's commentariat are up in arms. But really, we're all to blame.
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July 3, 2010
Jeff Immelt won this week's foot-in-mouth award for his comments on China foreign investment, giving us all a glimpse of his inner douchebag.
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June 28, 2010
In the face of all the bad news out there, it's tough not to fall in with the nattering nabobs of negativism. Say hello to a reluctant new optimist.
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June 17, 2010
Enter the new age of online comment payola, where competitors fight for message control and consumers look for the truth.
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June 13, 2010
Is cyber bullying just a fact of life or should there be penalties for abusive behavior? One Tsinghua professor is looking for his day in court.
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June 10, 2010
Labor is on the rise in China, but Beijing will no doubt keep a tight leash on collectivized bargaining and workers rights.
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June 5, 2010
All of the sturm und drang surrounding the anniversary of Beijing's most famous modern political protest has made me cranky.
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May 30, 2010
Are the recent Foxconn suicides an indictment of China's export sector? Moving up the value chain may help, but it won't fix income inequality.
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May 20, 2010
Reports of cyber attacks against China have multiplied lately. Is this a coordinated effort to allow China to play the victim when its own record is criticized?
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May 17, 2010
The school violence debate roars on. There is a lot of blame to go around, but most of the fingers seem to be pointing at the government.
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May 14, 2010
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes government policy is fairly straightforward. Here's a tale of a budding China scholar who went a bit too far.
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May 7, 2010
China's enduring fascination with the wisdom of the countryside is not unique to the Middle Kingdom.
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May 4, 2010
Theories about the causes of China's recent acts of school violence have focused on the income gap and economic powerlessness. How will the government respond?
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April 28, 2010
Is the Shanghai Expo's blue gummi mascot a cheap Gumby knockoff? As the controversy rages on, one courageous IP lawyer stands up for Haibao's right to exist.
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April 24, 2010
Some say that the U.S. is losing the soft power fight against Chinese-style authoritarian capitalism, but China may not even be engaged in the struggle.
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April 21, 2010
Beijing has more important things to worry about than retaliating against the U.S. because one American company chose to leave the country.
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April 19, 2010
We are now into the second month of the war against the corruption of Chinese by English acronyms. Our war correspondent filed this update from the front lines.
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April 14, 2010
Nationalism makes us think that our countrymen are inherently superior to everyone else in the world, which makes trade deficits very difficult to explain.
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April 8, 2010
Many have asserted a lack of respect for life in today's China. Is this criticism valid, and if so, is it a natural product of recent economic and social change?
