Move Over James Bond, China Has An Unlikely Box Office Champ
Movies are big business in China, and 2012 was another record year: Theaters raked in about $2.7 billion, pushing China past Japan to become the world's second-largest market.Those blistering sales...
View ArticleAuntie Anne's Pretzels In Beijing: Why The Chinese Didn't Bite
The lure of the China market is legendary. The dream: Sell something to 1.3 billion people, and you're set.The reality is totally different.Ask the MBAs from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton...
View ArticleReport Links Cyber Attacks On U.S. To China's Military
Cyberattacks on dozens of American companies have been traced to an area on the outskirts of Shanghai that houses a Chinese military unit, according to a report out Tuesday by Mandiant, a U.S....
View ArticleA Chinese Army Outpost That's Tucked Into Modern Shanghai
Some people in Shanghai — especially the foreigners — think the city's new Pudong section of town is dull, without character and profoundly unfashionable.Twenty years ago, Pudong was mostly farms and...
View ArticleEx-Inmates Speak Out About Labor Camps As China Considers 'Reforms'
Shen Lixiu's story is numbingly familiar.Officials in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing knocked down her karaoke parlor for development. She says they then offered her compensation that was less than...
View ArticleIn China, Not Everything Has Changed
A lot of journalism about China focuses on the country's rapid and stunning changes, but equally telling are the things that stay the same. I did my first story on China's re-education through labor...
View ArticleChinese Farmers Fight Against Government Land Grab
The road that runs along the edge of Shangpu village in south China is littered with the hulks of burned-out cars. Farmers have built tents and simple barricades made of rocks and wire. Police have set...
View ArticleHow To Sneak Into A Chinese Village When Police Don't Want You There
On occasion my job requires me to sneak into a Chinese village as I did earlier this week to report a story on a rural uprising. This does not come naturally. I'm 6-foot-2 with gray hair and blue eyes...
View ArticleYoung Chinese Translate America, One Show At A Time
Every week, thousands of young Chinese gather online to translate popular American movies and TV shows into Mandarin. Some do it for fun and to help people learn English, while others see it as a...
View ArticleShanghai's Dead Pigs: Search For Answers Turns Up Denials
More than a week has passed since thousands of dead pigs were first discovered floating in a river in Shanghai, but authorities have yet to explain fully where the pigs came from or why they...
View ArticleA View From South Korea: The North Is 'A Playground Bully'
Nearly two decades ago, a North Korean official threatened to turn Seoul into a "Sea of Fire." South Koreans responded by cleaning out the shelves of supermarkets and preparing for an attack that never...
View ArticleA Symbol Of Korean Cooperation Becomes A Political Casualty
This week, North Korea closed off the last avenue of economic cooperation with its rival, South Korea. Pyongyang says the closing of Kaesong — a joint North-South industrial complex — is temporary.But...
View ArticleWill Lightning Strike Twice For South Korea's Psy?
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View ArticleThese Days, More And More Chinese Have Driven A Ford Lately
General Motors has been the American car company in China. Even when GM was in bankruptcy, the Chinese continued to view Buick as a high-status, luxury brand.But now Ford, an also-ran in the market for...
View ArticleRat 'Mutton' And Bird Flu: Strange Days For Meat Eaters In Shanghai
The past couple of months have been unsettling ones for meat eaters in Shanghai.In March, more than 16,000 dead pigs showed up in a stretch of the Huangpu River — a main source of the city's drinking...
View ArticleVietnam's Appetite For Rhino Horn Drives Poaching In Africa
Africa is facing a growing epidemic: the slaughter of rhinos.So far this year, South Africa has lost more than 290 rhinos — an average of at least two a day. That puts the country on track to set yet...
View ArticleChina Builds Museums ... But Will The Visitors Come?
Shanghai did something last fall that few other cities on the planet could have even considered. It opened two massive art museums right across the river from one another on the same day.The grand...
View ArticleChina's Air Pollution: Is The Government Willing To Act?
Denise Mauzerall arrived in Beijing this year at a time that was both horrifying and illuminating.
View ArticleChina's Leaders Promise To Speed Up Economic Growth
The Communist Party's new leadership has pledged to change China's slowing economy by putting a greater emphasis on private enterprise and reining in huge but far less profitable state-owned...
View ArticleIn China, Customer Service And Efficiency Begin To Blossom
China's infamous bureaucracy has bedeviled people for ages, but in recent years, daily life in some major Chinese cities has become far more efficient.For instance, when I worked in Beijing in the...
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