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...Sarah Guo moved on quickly from the crypto winter....
...“The story is always about expanding in China, but in the end, it is a very competitive market,” said Jonathan Yan, a principal at consultancy Roland Berger....
...The ailing property developer’s chair, Hui Ka Yan, had intended to build a mansion on the land that would have resembled the Palace of Versailles in France....
...Jin Dong-yan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong, said Chinese hospitals could be overwhelmed by an influx of unvaccinated elderly patients if there was a mass outbreak, replicating a crisis in...
...Xu Li is a fan of Yang Guo, the protagonist of bestselling Chinese novel The Return of the Condor Heroes, famed for lobbing a stone at a Mongol Khan, slaying the leader and halting an invasion from the country...
...The Bureau of Past Managementby Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender, V&Q Books £12.99 Hans Frambach works at the Berlin bureau that gives the novel its title, whose mission is to help the country...
...Jordan Schneider on the excellent ChinaTalk podcast has a fascinating chat with Yan Zheng at In-Q-Tel, which invests in start-ups for the CIA and the rest of the US intelligence community....
...If you have any questions for the authors, check in on today’s Q&A session here. Last week we told you about the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism’s plan to save capitalism....
...One result was that a wave of art students went to Paris and absorbed the influence of western art, among them Sanyu, Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian, and Yan Wenliang — all artists whose work now figures in Shih...
...Cutting off China from western technology isn’t likely to reduce its innovative capacity; as China’s central banking regulator Guo Shuqing observed last week, it will more likely mean that its indigenous...
...That and a work by the amazing gunpowder artist Cai Guo-Qiang. He is unbelievable. What’s your biggest extravagance? Wasting time. In what place are you happiest?...
...EQT Holding, a Swedish private equity firm, also reportedly submitted a bid for Q-Park. Q-Park, China Oceanwide and CKI did not respond to requests for comment. Fosun declined to comment....
...Xiaolu Guo was born in Zhejiang province, China, in 1973....
...The Chinese-British author Xiaolu Guo wrote recently of her astonishment at how the agricultural Chinese village in which she grew up has transformed over the past 30 years into a vast metropolis, where...
...Earlier this year, the group took a shot at Q-Park — one of Europe’s largest parking lot operators — but pulled out when the bidding got too rich....
...This month Fosun joined the first round of bidding for Q-Park, a Netherlands-based parking lot operator — expected to sell for as much as $2.4bn — but later dropped out....
...We recommend this 1992 Harvard Business Review Q&A with a then 34-year-old Masayoshi Son, here....
...In a statement responding to a 2014 profile in the New York Times, Lu Yan, the spokeswoman for Mr Xiao’s Tomorrow Group, called her boss “a loyal student to Mr Warren Buffett’s theories” and denied he had...
...Once Upon a Time in the East, by Xiaolu Guo, Chatto & Windus, RRP£16.99 Xiaolu Guo’s memoir charts a journey from rural China to a career as a writer and film-maker in London....
...Fiction Xiaolu Guo Novelist and film-maker Xiaolu Guo’s career spans both China and Britain....
...Yan Jiehe, a Shanghai-based construction magnate who built one of China’s 10 largest fortunes, warns that the consequences of a broad-based crackdown on the private sector would be severe: “If entrepreneurs...
...Yan Jiehe, a construction magnate and China’s sixth-richest man, said private entrepreneurs often felt a need to “lean on a mountain” — a Chinese term for finding a powerful political patron....
...Besides cutting-edge composer Guo Wenjing and costume designer Emi Wada of House of Flying Daggers renown, the acclaimed playwright and director Li Liuyi reinforced the efforts of young choreographer Fei...
...“They said they will repair the house and we will be allowed to return in three months,” said Yan Hongmei, one homeowner. “I personally can’t accept this....
...The most expensive work in the sale is Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Escalator: Explosion Project for Centre Pompidou” (2003) estimated at HK$9m-HK$15m, US$1.2m-US$1.9m....
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