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January 2012 Issue | by News China Magazine

Commercial Comfort Zone

Have dynamic and far-reaching economic reforms, initiated in order to qualify China for entry into the WTO, given way to complacency on all sides? NewsChina investigates.

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January 2012 Issue | by Xue Yumeng, Xu Zhihui | Tax Riots

Taking Sides

Rioting in the Zhejiang township of Zhili has unnerved the local government, awakening Chinese administrators to the risks of using taxation to drive small-scale businesses out of the marketplace

January 2012 Issue | by News China Magazine

Mule Logistics

Horseback transportation of goods used to dominate ancient China’s agricultural society. Today horse-drawn carts remain in use in remote mountain regions.

January 2012 Issue | by News China Magazine

Do We Really Need to Fingerprint 1.3bn People?

The new biometric ID card scheme needs serious consideration before we impose it on an unprepared nation

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January 2012 Issue | by Yu Hua, Yi Xiaohe | Art Market

Masterful Mock-ups

Counterfeiting, driven by booms in speculation and investment, has now become endemic in China’s nascent art market

January 2012 Issue | by News China Magazine

Anti-Monopoly Investigations Should be Conducted Openly and Independently

State-owned enterprises have established dominance and enjoyed excessive profits in various industries, often at the cost of public interest.

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January 2012 Issue | by Huang Wei, Xie Ying | Spring Festival 1967-1980

The New Year That Wasn’t

As the Cultural Revolution raged across the country in early 1967, the Chinese Spring Festival holiday was cancelled, cutting through very roots of the nation’s culture and traditional values. NewsChina looks at how the most important date in the Chinese calendar became a day like any other

January 2012 Issue | by News China Magazine | Xinmin Weekly - November 9, 2011

Undermining Safety

January 2012 Issue | by News China Magazine | Music

Bold Double Album

January 2012 Issue | by News China Magazine | Exhibition

30 Years of Sculpture

January 2012 Issue | by News China Magazine | NewsChina Chinese Edition November 7, 2011

Trust Crisis

January 2012 Issue | by News China Magazine | China Economic Weekly - November 1, 2011

Medical Gambling

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Edible Bribes

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Progress or Pornography?

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Sex and the Schoolroom

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Everything is Dangerous

The extent to which these ayi hover over the children entrusted…[More]

A Hundred Flowers More

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Trading Places

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Catwalk Diplomacy

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Crying Wolf

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Can You Afford to be an Angry Bird?

The developer of the popular mobile game recently claimed that Chinese…[More]

Taking Sides

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Commercial Comfort Zone

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Move Toward Mainstream

Internet shorts, dubbed “micro-movies,” are growing in popularity, but how long…[More]

Masterful Mock-ups

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Money Talks

While investment may speak louder than politics, the business communities from…[More]

Peasants Need Not Apply

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China Legislates Against Terrorism

The Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress, the country’s legislative body, passed a new…[More]

Gale-Force Glut

Despite having a virtual monopoly on China’s oversupplied domestic market,…[More]

Xinhai Revolution: A Potted History

The Xinhai Revolution is named after the official title of the…[More]

King of Burgers

I had almost abandoned my quest to find a “real” hamburger…[More]

Hoopes Away From Home

Higher pay and better competition has recently attracted Taiwanese basketball players…[More]

30 Years of Sculpture

Start from the Horizon, an exhibition reviewing modern Chinese sculpture since 1978…[More]

The River Wild

From its source in Tibet, the Yarlung Tsangpo River meanders 2,900 kilometers…[More]

From Stall to Mall

Taobao’s shift towards a business-to-consumer model has come at a…[More]

Beauty Means Business

Despite its tourist-trap window dressing there’s always something new to…[More]

Revolutionary Reflection

As ideological disputes came to the forefront during coverage of the 10…[More]

Brutal Bazaar

Is e-commerce portal Taobao, China’s eBay equivalent, capitalizing on a…[More]

Trust Crisis

A recent online survey by China’s Xinhua News Agency…[More]

Safe as Houses?

A year and a half into the government’s housing market…[More]

Medical Gambling

A loosened national loan policy introduced during the 2008 financial crisis has…[More]

Bold Double Album

Increasingly threatened by Internet piracy, many modern musicians are reluctant to…[More]