YY.com: showing off in the virtual world
YY Inc is one of the hottest tech companies you’ve never heard of. The Chinese live broadcasting platform’s stock has quadrupled since listing on the NASDAQ only about a year ago, and third quarter...
View ArticleChinese tycoons lay bare existential angst, obedient sheep
T S Eliot encapsulates existential despair in his landmark modernist poem The Waste Land with the phrase “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” Eliot’s bleak imagery is apparently not dark enough...
View ArticleChina: less friendly to business, or just more mature?
Over the past year, Chinese state media has aired a string of critical reports targeting foreign companies’ business practices in China. The reports allege that Samsung and Apple’s warranties are too...
View ArticleChina’s Modern Media: survival in a digital world
Plenty of western magazines and newspapers have hit the skids or even gone bust in recent years, victims of declining print advertising revenues in an increasingly internet-oriented world. Think of...
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