Day 31 – 恭喜发财 – PassageMaker’s Chinese New Year party!

February 15, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

恭喜发财, gōng xǐ fā cái, wishing you a prosperous new year!
More articles and weird stuff:

Toxic Linfen – regardless of Climategate, there is still room for commonsense pollution controls in developing nations
Think You Know China? Eight Things Foreigners Get Wrong
Interesting talk on Vested Outsourcing – not sure if I care for the new buzz word, but [...]

Day 14

January 19, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Day 14 – Tuesday – Some interesting China article links to kick things off:

Daring blogger tests the limits
Article with some interesting graphs on Chinese military spending
Article on Google
Power rationing in China
Why America and China Will Clash
Avatar banned in China
chinaSMACK – this is an awesome news aggregation site sent to me by Dave Learn – a [...]

Days 6-13 – Shanghai Hooters, Mao’s Revenge, and rotten cell phone companies

January 18, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Day 6 – Woke to steady rain after a fitful sleep.  The Chinese believe in sleeping on hard beds, as it is supposed to be good for you.  And when I say hard, I mean sheet of plywood hard.  And how having your hips so sore you can barely get out of the bed in [...]

The end of the dollar and the rise of the Chinese consumer

September 28, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

When Mike Bellamy and I chose the China track at the University of South Carolina in 1997, it was still an avante garde career move.  Both of us had been to Asia and knew China was going to play a key role in the 21st century.  Neither of us thought we’d be reading articles like [...]

Yummy chicken feet, tires, and the global economy

September 17, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

The NYT article, “Chewy Chicken Feet May Quash a Trade War”, leads me to mull over the potential trade dispute over tires and chickens:
“China is threatening to cut off imports of American chicken, but poultry experts have at least one reason to suspect it may be an empty threat: Many Chinese consumers would miss the [...]