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Issue 365

WiC 365 (May 12, 2017)

Film noir

Entertainment, Talking Point Chinese movie studios have seen their market values pummelled

When Chinese film critics talk about “Western influence” in their industry, they don’t actually mean Hollywood. Instead they are referring to ...

A $435 billion list

Corporate Q&A A pioneering unicorn ranking is launched

Nina Xiang founded online media outlet China Money Network in 2011 to cover China's growing internet and tech sector, as well as the private equity and ...

Musk coy on Chinese plans

Auto Industry What does Panasonic’s battery move in China mean for Tesla?

Nevada politician Mark Hutchison recently returned from a business trip to China that plugged his state’s tourist attractions. But what enthused ...

Visa accepted

China and the World Kushner Companies takes its project to China

Over a hundred affluent Chinese investors gathered at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Beijing last week to hear about a new development in Jersey City. While ...

A nation rises

Aviation Media celebration as China’s locally-made jet finally takes to the skies

In discussing their aviation industry the Chinese sometimes talk in terms of ‘800 million shirts’. Puzzled? Well, as Beijing News points out, the ...

Balancing act

Banking & Finance Regulators shake up the banking sector but will they slow the…

Few people grasped the full extent of the risks from shadow banking before the global financial crisis exploded almost a decade ago. One reason why is ...

Surgical accuracy

Entertainment Can a hospital drama revive the image of Chinese doctors?

In China, doctors don’t have the stellar reputations they enjoy in countries like the US and the UK. The majority of physicians are poorly paid and ...

Soiled goods

Agriculture How China’s fertilizer market has struggled

When the agricultural scientist Franklin Hiram King visited China at the turn of the twentieth century he was amazed the country had been able to till ...

Clash of styles

Society Traditional Chinese kung fu gets a bloody nose from rival

The Ip Man trilogy is sometimes categorised as a biopic. The films focus on the life of Ip Man, the wing chun master who trained a ...

Spousal support

Planet China Over the last eight years this column has highlighted more than…

Over the last eight years this column has highlighted more than 350 weird-but-true tales from China. This week’s story is one of the strangest: a ...

Sage advice

Sino-File “Early on in the development of markets there’s probably some tendency…

Warren Buffett discusses the “casino-like” characteristics of the Chinese stock market at Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholders meeting. “Those who ...

Holiday hot spot

Cartoons Holiday hot spot

Recent figures from the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) show that the number of Chinese visitors to the South Pole has ...

Patriot games

And Finally China offers cash rewards for spycatchers

China wants to attract more foreign tourists and more overseas experts. Why then, you might ask, is it playing a video on Beijing’s airport express ...