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Knowledge@Wharton |
Shanghai and Hong Kong: China's Twin Engines of Growth China's economy will be like a giant 747 with Shanghai and Hong Kong acting as its two main engines, if Hong Kong can reinvent itself to balance Shanghai's growing prosperity, according to Ming K. Chan, an authority on Hong Kong and Asian development. |
Search Engine Watch September 16, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
China's Great Wall Against Google And AltaVista So can people in China get to Google or not? Yes, apparently so. However, there are still reports of trouble when conducting particular searches, which suggest that some selective blocking is happening. Meanwhile, the situation with AltaVista being blocked appears to continue. |
Wired November 2002 Arthur Kroeber |
The Hot Zone An untamed technology boom is sweeping through China's Pearl River Delta, where cheap labor, mass production, police thugs, and get-rich-quick dreams rule. It's a terrible, horrible, lawless frontier. And it works. |
Finance & Development September 1, 2002 Adhikari & Yang |
What Will WTO Membership Mean for China and Its Trading Partners? After 15 years of arduous negotiations, China became the 143rd member of the World Trade Organization. The opening of an economy as large as China's can be disruptive to some developing countries in the short run, but, in the long run, it should benefit not only China but also its trading partners. |
Finance & Development September 1, 2002 Shang-Jin Wei |
Is Globalization Good for the Poor in China? Developing countries worry that opening up to trade with the rest of the world may make the poor poorer and the rich richer, with China sometimes cited as an example of growing income inequality. A recent IMF study, however, finds that the reality is far more complex. |
Salon.com September 30, 2002 Janelle Brown |
My past life as a dog For 12 years, Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo meditated alone in a tiny cave in Tibet. Now she wants to elevate the status of other Buddhist women, believed to be reincarnated as females as punishment for past mistakes. |
Wired August 2002 David Sheff |
Enter the Dragon China will soon be the biggest PC market in the world, and everyone wants a piece of it. One problem: A homegrown powerhouse called Legend. |
Salon.com July 8, 2002 Lisa Movius |
Imitation nation Is piracy-crazed China a nightmare vision of the future, or just a developing country going through some severe growing pains? |
Knowledge@Wharton |
`Informal' Entrepreneurship Is the Key to China's Success China is turning conventional business wisdom on its head... |
Salon.com March 21, 2002 Andrew Leonard |
Will the Net save China? A breathless new book predicts that Chinese digerati will revive their nation's glory -- but massive poverty and autocratic rulers won't vanish at the click of a mouse... |
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