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Big Chinese cities could see renewed home price spikes as housing glut eases
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s biggest cities could see a further spike in home prices after inventories of unsold homes fell sharply in July, state news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday, citing an industry report.
Pokemon Go turns into a battleground between China and Taiwan
John Hanke, CEO of Niantic, the American software house behind Pokemon Go, posted a tweet in traditional Chinese welcoming the Taiwanese players to join the … Read more
China needs housing space ‘the size of Singapore’ each year till 2030
BEIJING (Reuters) – China needs to build residential property space that’s roughly equivalent to the land area of Singapore, or 800 million square meters, every … Read more
Extreme runner to take Chinese stray dog home after it followed him for 125km
Australian extreme runner Dion Leonard says he is planning to bring a stray dog, who followed him for 125 km during a race across China, back to his home in Scotland.
Dutch man’s day-wait at Chinese airport for woman ends in hospital
A Dutch man spent 10 days at an airport in China waiting for a woman he met on the internet but ended up hospitalized after the stay took a … Read more
China’s state planner drops call for monetary easing from statement
BEIJING (Reuters) – A research office at China’s top economic planner on Wednesday called for the central bank to cut interest rates and bank reserve requirements, but later removed the remarks in an updated statement posted on its website.
China says EU anti-dumping duties are ‘unjustifiable protection’
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The European Commission’s imposition of heavy anti-dumping duties on Chinese steel bars is “unjustifiable protection for the EU steel industry,” the official … Read more
Chinese cinema and Hollywood merge in “The Great Wall”
In recent years, Hollywood has been eying the Chinese movie audience as China is one of the largest international film markets, and the two worlds … Read more
Capturing Chinese Short Stories from Lu Xun’s Nahan
Finally a book to help you read original Chinese literature. Footnotes highlight the more difficult vocabulary and pinyin is provided for the entire text. There … Read more
The True Story of Lu Xun
This is the first independent, full-life biography of Lu Xun, the most celebrated Chinese writer of the twentieth century, in any European language. It sets … Read more
Ah Q Archaeology
Lu Xun, Ah Q, Ah Q Progeny, and the National Character Discourse in Twentieth Century China
Lu Xun selected poems
A collection of poems by the father of modern vernacular Chinese literature, Lu Xun.