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...Namely: homemade xiao long bao and shengjian bao, claypot rice flecked with wind-dried sausages and Chinese bacon, a trio of Cantonese roast meats (cha siu, duck and siu yuk), crab leg congee, lobster egg...
...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....
...And their numbers are growing, encouraged by the local government; culture is seen as “ever-growing soft power”, in the words of Gong Yan, director of the Biennale....
...“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....
...“Banks will try to pass on higher costs to lenders where they can,” said Ms Yan....
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan...
...Ms Yan said many banks did not consider online arrivistes such as Alibaba’s Yu’E Bao, or “leftover treasure” – which is rapidly becoming a popular substitute for traditional deposits – as a big threat....
...Yu’e Bao notched up 2.5m users with Rmb5.7bn ($931m) of investments by the end of its first month....
...Prominent dissidents, including Bao Tong, have been escorted out of Beijing. Mr Bao was an aide to Zhao Ziyang, the premier purged after the protests of 1989 who died in 2005....
...Meanwhile, Berlin Zoo’s efforts to find a mate for Bao Bao after the female Yan Yan died have been rebuffed by China, allegedly in response to Angela Merkel hosting the Dalai Lama; however, Berlin zoo...
...let him live by sports, or to let him go to a specialised sports team or school,” Bao says....
...It’s something Chinese gallery-goers expect to find, the gallerist Tamsin Roberts told me over gong bao chicken, silken spiced tofu, lotus root, bamboo shoots and heavenly greens at Tian Xia Yan, a humming...
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