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How does one become a “China expert?”

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I’ve taken a passing interest in the feud that has developed between Richard Burger from The Peking Duck, a long-running and popular blog about China, and Shaun Rein, who is a successful marketer based in Shanghai.  (You can begin catching... read more »

March 28, 2012 11:48 pm / 7 comments

 

Thoughts after a weekend in Shanghai

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I would be remiss if I left Shanghai without a quick blog post, for a few reasons. For starters, I’m having a beer at the Big Bamboo pub just prior to catching my flight back to Hong Kong. A block from here, at Malone’s, is where... read more »

March 18, 2012 12:24 am / 3 comments

 

What it means to be “Chinese” in Hong Kong

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I’ve taken great interest in a couple of stories recently which are exposing well-formed – but for many, unseen – cracks between the Mainland and Hong Kong. The first one is this: luxury retailer Dolce & Gabbana found... read more »

January 12, 2012 6:34 am / 129 comments

 

America’s decline, and how nobody seems to really care

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(Photo from the Daily Beast) It’s with a sense of frustration that I watch America descend from its perch atop the global order.  For as long as I’ve been alive, the United States has been the “shining city on a hill”,... read more »

November 14, 2011 3:24 am / 5 comments

 

Desperation in Fuzhou

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When people have nothing, they become desperate.  We’ve seen this throughout history and around the world.  Simply speaking, the reason Palestinians blow themselves up in Tel Aviv coffee shops is because it’s better than the alternative:... read more »

May 26, 2011 8:09 pm / 3 comments

 

Would China trust a laowai in a position of power?

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Reuters is reporting today that President Barack Obama will appoint Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as his next Ambassador to China, replacing the outgoing (and possible Presidential candidate) John Huntsman. I think the choice will generally... read more »

March 7, 2011 9:02 pm / 12 comments

 

The reds have taken Beijing

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(Edit: In the interest of full transparency, the quotes from Bill Bishop and Kaiser Kuo below were taken from separate questions on Quora. As such, Bill’s reply was *not* a direct reply to Kaiser’s post. I believe this was made clear... read more »

January 6, 2011 7:06 am / 18 comments

 

This propaganda is weak tea

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Hu Jintao sits down for chat in Guo Chunping's (right) 77 kuai apartment. Regular readers of this blog will know I toiled in the bowels of China’s state-run media machine for a few years, so know all about the silly, paranoid behaviour... read more »

January 3, 2011 2:47 am / 8 comments

 

Chinese patriot Szeto Wah passes away

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Szeto Wah at his last June 4 vigil in Hong Kong in 2010. I’d seen the name Szeto Wah in SCMP news reports during my time in the mainland, but never paid too much attention to domestic Hong Kong politics at the time.  It wasn’t until... read more »

January 2, 2011 7:05 pm / 4 comments

 

Hello there… it’s been a while

I feel like I should re-introduce myself, it’s been so long. This is Zhongnanhai, a blog that was started in 2007 in Shanghai, just after I was among several people laid off from Jongo, a fledgling internet startup (which is still running,... read more »

January 2, 2011 4:03 am / no comments

 
 

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