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Xia Jie stands in the courtyard of her family's house in central Beijing, glancing up as a breeze flutters the leaves of a pomegranate tree. Except for the sounds of playing children in the alley outside, all is silence. "It's hard to believe we are in the center...
The pressure to modernize and the huge profits reaped by developers has overwhelmed efforts by preservationists and some bureaucrats to protect what was once one of the world's best-preserved medieval cities. Numerous stories that make it into China's tightly controlled media about collusion between city officials and...
Statistics are never as visceral as firsthand experience. It’s one thing to know that 300 million Chinese adults are either tobacco smokers or are exposed to cigarette smoke on a daily basis, with 40 percent of nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke. It’s another thing...
You could say that they acted pretty swiftly when knock-offs of Beijing Olympics 2008 merchandise appeared and then disappeared from the streets. The problem is here, [the counterfeit business]is a big industry and it is criminal organizations that are doing this, in factories where they make children work...
So who is willing to pay a small ransom to own a Roller? They're people who tend to own four to eight cars, and often have at least one Rolls in the garage already - 37% are repeat buyers. Buyers tend to be entrepreneurs, showbusiness celebrities or sports stars; few...