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Writing this on the plane back to Shanghai, after an extended weekend of sorts in Beijing. First things first, I’ve got to give some love to the new airport here. It involved a leap of faith to head to Terminal Three (Shanghai Airlines hasn’t updated its ticketing system to let passengers know… ahem… where exactly […]

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With nothing else newsworthy anywhere else in the country, Xinhua appears to have dispatched its entire workforce to Beijing to crank out articles like this, this, this, this, this, this and this about the 两会. This has made NewsinChinese possibly the most boring site on the Internet. Great reading for those looking to polish […]

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Stumbled onto the China Film Journal via Danwei and popped it onto my RSS reader after checking out three articles. The site design is pretty awful, but the content is excellent. There’s lot of it, they’re covering small local stuff that’s newsworthy but doesn’t otherwise make the news, and they’re not afraid to speak their […]

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I don’t run many regression analyses these days, but the economist in me can’t help but feel a sense of schadenfreude at the recent economic troubles in the West. I think this is mostly because the problems with subprime loans and the housing market have been fairly obvious since 2005 and there’s no excuse for […]

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