If you head to Amazon.com you’ll find at least twenty books on “doing business in China” and related topics such as “import from China” or “export to Asia”. Also, there are a lot of blogs and websites that focus on the same topic. The list that you’ll find in this article is far from being …
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This page is dedicated to my favorite Chinese movies. Ocean Heaven (海洋天堂, Hǎiyáng Tiāntáng) Ocean Heaven is a 2010 Chinese-Hong Kong drama directed by Xue Xiaolu. Sam Wong has a terminal sickness and is going to die soon. Even if he has accepted it, he’s worried for his son, Dafu, who is a 21 year …
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His life A Yi 阿乙, pseudonym for Ai Guozhu 艾国柱, was born in 1976 in Ruichang 瑞昌, a county city in the province of Jiangxi 江西, in eastern China. Since he was little he always had a passion for writing, an idea that was not shared by his parents – especially his father – who …
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We’ve received and publish this article written by Olimpia Ciccotelli Her life Zhang Yueran 张悦然 is a contemporary author who in spite of her age (37 this year) can boast a literary career spanning over two decades. She was born in 1982 in Jinan 济南, capital of Shandong Province 山东. Daughter of a college literary …
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© Josh Summers In this article I’m going to review Travel to China: Everything You Need to Know Before You Go, the new book (and ebook) written by Josh Summers. Even though I have never personally met Josh, I know his website, Far West China, since 2012, as it’s by far the most comprehensive website …
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“The best is not to win one hundred battles in one hundred, but to subdue the enemy without fight.” “To mistreat the men and then fear their reaction is the maximum of stupidity.” “When the men are pushed in a position without exit, they will not escape even in front of death. In this situation …
West Lake, Hangzhou. The West Lake (西湖, Xī Hú) in Hangzhou is said to be the incarnation of 西施 (Xī Shī), one of the four beauties of China. Hence it is also called Xi Zi Lake, where “Xi Zi” means Lady Xi. This is the story of Xi Shi as told in The Art of …
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Mo Yan Life Mo Yan (莫言), which literally means “nothing to say”, is the pseudonym for Guan Moye (管谟业), an affirmed writer and essayist known worldwide, especially for having won a Nobel prize for literature in 2012 thanks to his ability to merge popular stories, history and modernism with a strong hallucinatory realism. During his …
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This is the first article of the new category “Readers of SDC: Guide to Chinese literature”, centered around the writer from Hangzhou, Yu Hua. His life Yu Hua (余华) was born April 3, 1960 (one of Yu Hua’s works is entitled “What happened on April 3”, 四月三日事件) in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. At about one year …
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Introduction The book I Ching, also called “Zhouyi” or “the book of changes” is irrefutably and unanimously considered as one of the deepest and determining roots of the Chinese culture. The origins of the concepts that it contains are lost in the depths of time to the point of founding itself with mythological figures who, …
Today is an honor for me to interview Simon Gjeroe, a Danish long-time ex-pat and he has written articles and books on Chinese travel, food, culture, history, and politics. Simon lived in China from 1995 to 1998 and again from 2003 to 2013 where he got married and raised two mixed boys. From his bibliography, …
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His life Cao Wenxuan, 曹文轩, one of the most-read Chinese children literature authors in China and among the most widely translated in the world, was born in the village of Longgang 龙港村 near the town of Yancheng 盐城, in Jiangsu Province, 江苏, in 1954. The family’s economic situation wasn’t the greatest, but that didn’t stop …
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This article is a review of the travel guide “Xinjiang : A Traveler’s Guide to Far West China“, written by Josh Summer, the soul of Far West China, notoriously my favorite website of my favorite Chinese province: Xinjiang. Here at SDC we rarely review travel guides. The reason is, for the most part we don’t …
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This article was born last week after I went to a private gynecological hospital in Beijing. The damned association phenomenon The fact is that at the doors of this luxury hospital (beside the bathroom that was, as usual, awful) hang up the panels with the specialization of each doctor. Given my mixed feelings of boredom …
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