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Tag Archives: Spring Festival
China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Beijing tops the Chinese Nouveau Riche list
Recently the Hurun Research Institute published the 2009 Chinese Nouveau Riche Consumption Standard Report on the new rich in six cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Shenyang; and the winner is: [...]
Posted in China, consumer behavior, economics, trends Also tagged bank, Beijing, Chengdu, entertainment, France, Hangzhou, holiday travel, Hurun, Italy, japan, Kyoto, Liaoning, Luxury Items, luxury products, Macau, Nouveau riche, Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Sichuan, Tokyo, United States, Yuan, Zhejiang 4 Comments
Internet in China: Baidu eyes 3G wireless Internet technology
China's most popular Internet search engine Baidu thinks highly of the prospect of 3G wireless Internet access technology and is now in talk with China's mobile network operators for cooperation, the company's CEO Robin Li said recently at the Boao Forum for Asia in the southern island province of Hainan [...]
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Gaming in China: Chinese government says no to “Wrath of the Lich King”
JLM Pacific Epoch reports the Chinese government “has rejected two applications by the second expansion for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King since China’s Spring Festival (January 25 – February 1).”
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Chinese Calligraphy: Master Yue Le
In previous post in which I discussed chinese calligraphy, I talked a little bit about chinese calligraphy's history, and my impressions of its influence in contemporary chinese design. Since a lot of people have been asking me for more on the topic, I've decided to post on YouTube some videos of a trip my wife, a couple of friends and I did to Zhu Jia Jiao, one of the many river towns just outside Shanghai. In Zhu Jia Jiao, we've met Master Yue Le, a local artist that makes his living on creating banners/posters for tourist that visit that town: with our little domain of Mandarin, we've asked him to create some banners to represent something he would consider typical [...]
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Millions stranded by the snow in holiday havoc
Heavy white storms staged a comeback late yesterday as China's transport network remained crippled by the heaviest snowfall in five decades. Millions of people trying to head home for the Spring Festival are stranded. The big freeze has killed dozens of people, impacted on the lives of at least 80 million others and caused economic losses estimated at more than 53.8 billion yuan (US$7.5 billion)...
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Living in China: 2.54 billion journeys will be made during Spring Festival