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Some Interesting Geek Links

I think Christmas and New Year tends to bring out my inner geek, since I spend a lot of time reading and on the net during the holiday season. Here are two interesting links I think you should check out:

Cory Doctorow reading Alice in Wonderland: the up-and-coming Scifi writer has recorded himself reading Louis Carroll’s [...]

The Poor State of Chinese Building Materials

After I read Shanghai Scrap’s Adam Minter’s account of the collapse of a radio tower outside his apartment on Christmas Eve — and the death of the migrant worker that it caused — got me thinking about the poor state of building materials in China and how they have gone down hill over the last [...]

Top Ten Lists

I hate writing Top ten lists, but I love finding and reading them — and I discovered two beauties today:

Global Voices translated Kuan Feng’s Top 10 Chinese Internet stories of 2007
CNNMoney and Fortune Magazine have put out 2007’s 101 Dumbest Moments in Business Unfortunately China and the product recalls from this summer are a number [...]

Across China on Foot: Study of A Changing China at A Very Exciting Time

One of the things I did on my Christmas vacation was finish Edwin John Dingle’s Across China on Foot– one of the great books in China Economic Review’s CER Classic series.
Dingle decided in 1909 to walk across Western China to learn about the country and particularly its mysterious interior. He decided with a friend to [...]

Merry Christmas

Well Christmas Day is here and it’s time to say Merry Christmas to everyone. As I’ve mentioned before I’ve decided to take Christmas and Boxing Day off to enjoy the holiday season. Therefore I’m taking a break from blogging for those two days as well. I hope your Christmas will be just as relaxing and [...]

Art is Now Just Part of the Chinese Production Line

I read a really interesting post today by James Fallows, the Atlantic’s China correspondent. Entitled, “Workshop of the World, Fine Arts Division”, it details Fallows’ visit to a fine arts “village” outside Shenzhen. But instead of being an artists’ colony like you would see in Europe, the US — or even Beijing, it’s a [...]

Managing Globalization: My Current Recommended Blog

I’m really enjoying Daniel Altman’s Managing Globalization blog for the International Herald Tribune. It takes economics and globalization and makes it interesting and fun to read without taking sides. Just take a look at today’s post. Altman covers issues in both China and India — the Danone-Wahaha dispute and Tata’s attempt to purchase Land Rover [...]

Christmas it is Approaching and Chinese Holidays Are A Changin’

It’s exactly one week before Christmas. And like every other year that I’ve been in China you wouldn’t know it — as long as you stayed away from a shopping mall. There, the shops are full of Christmas spirit or at least the hope that foreigners and Chinese people who are related to or work [...]

Books are My Security Blanket

Books really are my security blanket. I came to this realization when I was reading one of Tyler Brule’s  recent columns in the International Herald Tribune. In that particular column Brule writes about how he needs to take a stack of books and magazines with him wherever he travels to kill time on a plane.
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