Blog Tag - China

Nobel Literature Prize Winning Mo Yan Hops Into Frog
“Sensei, an old custom in my hometown dictated that a newborn child is given the name of a body part or organ. Nose Chen, for instance, Eyes Zhao,...
Beijing: A Good Place to Be a Billionaire
Beijing is fourth on a list of the cities preferred by the world's 2,089 billionaires, more of whom live in China than any other country except for...
Game Console Ban Lifted
China has lifted its game console producing and selling ban following a trial in Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone. The ban was originally put in place in...
Jon Stewart Video Used to Hawk China Video Game
"The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart has become an unexpected pitch man for a Chinese video game. Does Comedy Central know about this? The promotional...
Average Chinese White Collar Worker Rates Their Sex Life 1.64 Out of Five: WSJ
China's white-collar workers show up for work approximately 22 times per month, but half have sex less than once per month, which may account for...
PADI Island: Backpackers Continue to Flock to Thailand’s Koh Tao
Perched in the Gulf of Thailand, Koh Tao has a unique claim to fame: it’s one of the world’s few scuba diving destinations for backpackers. While the...
SS Taiping: The Shipwreck Behind John Woo's The Crossing
Director John Woo's latest two-part epic The Crossing opens today (Dec 2) and has already earned the nickname of "China's Titanic," as the story...
Next 'Hunger Games' Film Won't Receive China Day-And-Date Release
Fans of The Hunger Games film series were disappointed this weekend, when the film opened in many countries across the globe, but not China. Despite...
China, US Introduce New 10-Year Visas For Business and Tourism
Some genuinely good news out of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting for citizens and residents of Beijing: China and the United States have...
Talking Travel: What Foreign Travel Companies Don't Get About China
Two travel industry events I attended about ten years apart highlighted what foreign travel operators don't understand about the market. In both...
Yunnan Xishuangbanna: Is It Really China?
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Julia Child's China Connection
This Wednesday, August 13, marks the tenth anniversary of Julia Child's passing. The formidable female chef is best known for bringing French cuisine...
Don't Eat So Much! Eat More! Chinese Girlfriends and Their Top 10 Complaints About Foreign Boyfriends
No relationship is perfect, and no one in a relationship is a less perfect than the foreign man dating the Chinese woman. This is summed up by an...
China is Slowly Waking up to Coffee
  With the World Cup upon us and because of the antisocial (or social) nature of the time difference between China and Brazil, businesses are...
Page Turners: Scott Kronick Looks on the Bright Side
Seems like people in the public relations industry in Beijing need other outlets to express themselves. Will Moss and David Wolf were both popular...