Asia The origins and customs of the Chinese New Year January 27, 2020 0 Image Credit: Chinese New Year by Akuppa John Wigham/Flickr; licence CC BY 2.0. Written by Haiwang Yuan. With information available everywhere and easily searchable nowadays,…
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China Yu Xiuhua: Travelling Through the Mud of Life by Poetry December 6, 2017 0 Written by Dian Li. 2015 started with a bang for Yu Xiuhua. In a span of months, her name graced front pages of newspapers, prime-time…
Business Chinese Characteristics: The Next Big (Export) Thing? July 21, 2015 0 Written by John Hartley. In my research field of Cultural Science, the role of ‘we’ and ‘they’ groups in organising knowledge is seen as crucial. Knowledge…
China Bleak times for foreign media in China July 6, 2015 0 Written by Raymond Li. China is the largest media market in the world, and therefore attracts many foreign media companies which flock into the country on…
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