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...Wu Qing, the new head of CSRC, last month emphasised that “regulators must pay special attention to fairness issues.”...
...Even after annexing Taiwan in 1684, the Qing kept it at arm’s length, restricting migration to the island and focusing on putting down rebellions....
...It is owned by Lawrence Yu, a prominent Hong Kong businessman, and if you have a connection to someone in the know, you’ll be able to make a reservation. It is booked entirely by word of mouth....
...“There is plenty of room for Moutai to improve profitability if it has better control over its sales channel,” said Li Qing, an analyst at Northeast Securities....
...Last weekend was Qing Ming, China’s annual tomb sweeping festival, when families show filial piety to ancestors by cleaning headstones, laying flowers and setting fire to paper money to send the deceased...
...Weng Wenlei, vice-president of the Shanghai Women’s Federation, a government body, said birth rates in Shanghai had plunged despite efforts to relax China’s population control....
...The provocative sculpture by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, One or All (Ash Column), made from human ash, also feels tragically timely. Both works will go to Hong Kong....
...Four prominent detainees Yu Juncong Yu Juncong, a 25-year-old from a village in Jiangxi province in south-east China, started working at Jasic Technology in January 2017....
...The hero Bao Yu is caught between marrying his beloved Dai Yu and a cousin chosen for him by his mother....
...and 2.5 times the Qing’s annual revenues....
...Additional reporting by Gu Yu...
...Jiang Jian Qing, chairman of ICBC argued at Davos that it was caused by China-bashing stories about non-performing loans and shadow banking rather than healthy fundamentals....
...No, but four of the company’s top Chinese executives were arrested in July, and one, Liang Hong, made a television confession, as did Weng Jianyong, head of the Shanghai Linjiang travel agency used by GSK...
...Additional Reporting by Gu Yu ——————————————- Hand gesture creates buzz on social media What is in a hand gesture?...
...During China’s last dynasty, the Qing, the actual term “spring roll” (chun juan) finally appeared....
...Additional reporting by Gu Yu in Beijing. To comment on this article please post below, or email magazineletters@ft.com...
...Though occasionally monotonous in its lyricism, neither Chan’s melodies nor the cast’s delivery got much in the way of librettist Yan Yu’s text....
...“The key question in this case is whether the verdict will mention Bo Xilai and make this case openly political,” said Yu Hui, a lawyer familiar with Chongqing....
...“I think it’s a race thing,” says Yu Ziwen, a first-year mathematics student at the University of Washington....
...For centuries, this region was a magnet for the literati and many gentlemen of letters who lived or lingered here, such as the Song dynasty poets Su Dongpo and Lu You, and the Qing dynasty poet Yuan Mei,...
...Qing Wang, an economist at Morgan Stanley, said: “In my view, this signals …the Chinese authorities’ intention to make a move.”...
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