Opinion
Beyonce in Beijing: Shut up and dance?
The Wild East While China changes so fast the facts blur, one habit that remains is audiences sitting politely in their seats…
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Culture
When Love is in the Air… in China
The remnants of a typhoon piddled on Qingdao last night, whetting the thirsts of the flowers, trees and citizens, tantalizingly dewy but…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Fortune-telling Alive & Well in The Middle Kingdom
Certain practices and “superstitions” were frowned upon, violently so, during the Cultural Revolution – a recent hiatus in China’s rich and ancient…
Culture
People Mountain, People Sea… of Cars
September is here, and with it the teeming masses have left the beach – drunk down all the Tsingtao beer during the…
News
Japan's New Era
Japan and the East Asian region face a new era with the election of The Democratic Party of Japan. The ousted Liberal…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
China heads to the beach
This is part of an exclusive, copyrighted series by British novelist Jonathan Chandler, “Lowdown on the Middle Kingdom.” For permission to publish…
Opinion
Lowdown on Shanghai: Hot town, Summer’s in the city!
The furnace season is here, along with the blessed Plum Rains, which this year have killed hundreds with unprecedented flooding and heavenly…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Saturday night in small town, provincial China
A couple of weekends ago, just after the Chinese New Year known here as The Spring Festival (which seems both erroneous and…
Opinion
The Ox Year: From Under the Bund
The New Year of the Ox was heralded in Shanghai by silent shuttered shops and six days and nights of fireworks, often…
News
Doing Business in China
China Business Network Founder Christine Lu interviews Corbett Wall,China Director, JDD Corbett Wall has spent more than 20 years doing business in…
Opinion
Low on the Hai: Shanghai the lucky city
Low on the Hai: Shanghai the lucky city – you’d better believe it… One of the massive construction projects for the Shanghai…
News
Dear Rosanne: My Western friends act like pigs in restaurants
Originally published in The China Post (but not online). Read more of Rosanne’s witty and hilarious columns for the culturally discombobulated on…