Inside the walled city — one of several compounds run by Foxconn International, a major supplier for Apple Inc — employees are provided with most of their daily needs. There are dormitories, canteens, recreation facilities, even banks, post offices and bakeries.
The rank-and-file within the compound have little reason to venture outside. That reduces the likelihood [...]
I’ve been tinkering with the back end over the past few days.
Wait a second, that sounded vaguely nasty. I meant that I’ve been updating some features on this blog. I was motivated to do this after Google Buzz went live, which made me consider getting back into the whole Twitterish universe.
I stopped tweeting last year [...]
The latest from Thomas Friedman in the New York Times:
Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man [...]
LA denim brand ‘7 For All Mankind’ recently launched a new Beijing boutique and with plans for another 3 stores to open within the year, Seven is set to make waves amongst China’s socialites and fashion-forward alike.
7FAM, part of the VF brand family, recently held a party to preview their Spring/Summer 2010 collection which attracted [...]
We’ve had our eye firmly fixed on bike culture in Chinese society over the past month, charging our ethnographic electrodes, allowing us to notice something interesting springing up along Shanghai’s sidewalks: a Forever powered bike rental system.
(photo credit, tokyocraiger)
Shanghai has long been a city where civil initiatives are often filled with bicycle focused suggestions [...]
Check it out, we (eno and enovate) are the 8th most innovative company in China according to Fast Company and their annual list of innovative companies. I remember reading this list a year ago when we started enoVate and thought to myself that these were the companies we wanted to be working with as change [...]
1. Hat tip to China Digital Times for directing us to this video by Ian Johnson at the Wall Street Journal site. Johnson narrates a quick tour of the Palace of Eternal Joy (Yongle Gong) in remote Shanxi Province, where a 700-year-old Daoist mural covers the walls. The paintings include rare depictions of Daoist gods, [...]
A few upcoming events that we think will be of interest to China Beat readers:
1. On Monday, March 1, Professors Richard Baum and Barry Naughton will be speaking at UCLA. Their talk, “Trading Places: China and the U.S. in the International System,” is co-sponsored by UCLA’s Center for Chinese Studies and the Center for Social [...]
By Ross Terrill
When Mao died I wrote: “China does not have, and does not need, a real successor to the bold and complex Mao. Now the revolution is made, another Mao would be as unsuitable as a sculptor on an assembly line” (Asian Wall Street Journal, 9/10/76). I ended the first edition of my biography [...]
The other day, I instructed a client of mine from doing something I was pretty certain would violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). When I told him that what he was proposing would almost certainly be illegal, he assured me that in the country in which he would do this, this sort of [...]