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Reebok's fall and rise are a classic tale of the wonders of the entrepreneurial world. Fireman was selling sports equipment for his father's business when in 1979, during a Chicago trade show, he became impressed by a hand-sewn leather sneaker called Reebok, named after a type of...
As the 21st century dawns, China again is on a mission to open itself to the world. Tens of thousands of individuals are on the journey, people like Gong Jian, a 30-year-old exporter I met over tea in the elegant Portman Ritz-Carlton hotel in Shanghai. His title...
In recent decades, China has counted heavily on Africa in its push to gain allies and influence. While the end of the cold war relegated the continent to the West's back burner, China has courted Africa's 53 nations diligently. Trade volume between China and Africa is a record...
Now that China has won the bid to host the 2008 Olympics, more foreigners will be visiting the country than ever. They will travel to historic sites and through the back alleys of towns and villages. The Chinese will prepare performances of Beijing opera singers, child acrobats and sword-wielding...
The 559,000 people who stood in line to see the Jacqueline Kennedy show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City testify to the enduring power of Kennedy nostalgia, and the flock of Kennedy books coming this fall (and they come every fall, as surely as touch...