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...More than 1,300 China quants recorded gains in 2023, according to data compiled by Li Ming, researcher at Changjiang Futures....
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai...
...It’s an incubator for local fashion talent where I discover new designers, such as Shushu/Tong, Oude Waag or Uma Wang....
...Among Siyang-Le’s highlights in this year’s fair is Ming Wong’s “Friendship first, Competition second” (2024), a giant ping-pong ball split into two halves....
...Hui Ka Yan, the founder and chair of Evergrande, who was formerly China’s richest man, has seen his personal wealth come under intense scrutiny from investors amid the developer’s ongoing restructuring....
...The sport’s top authority this week banned 10 UK-based Chinese players including leading talents Liang Wenbo and Yan Bingtao for their involvement in a match-fixing scandal....
...Golden Age by Wang Xiaobo, translated by Yan Yan, Penguin Classics £18.99, 272 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Its woes were captured this week by news that authorities suspected tycoon Hui Ka Yan, of the heavily indebted Evergrande conglomerate, of being involved in criminal conduct....
...A few doors down from a Popeyes location in central Shanghai last week, a long lunchtime line had formed outside Guang Ming Cun, a restaurant renowned for its local fare and popular with the city’s elderly...
...Among the new blood is the Beijing-trained Shanshan Wang, a self-styled one-woman band whose gallery in St James’s presents a show of her speciality, Korean ceramics....
...Curators Wang Jun-Jieh, director of TFAM, and film scholar Sing Song-Yong want to reveal new facets of Yang’s personality. “Kaili Peng [Yang’s widow] encouraged us to show his playfulness,” Sing says....
...Jin Dong-yan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong, said that to tackle the coming “tsunami” of cases, “China should have an accelerated mechanism for approval to change vaccines based on the circulating...
...Ming to the US-based EY....
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao and Thomas Hale in Shanghai and Gloria Li in Hong Kong...
...Additional reporting by Xueqiao Wang in Shanghai, Edward White in Seoul and Ryan McMorrow in Beijing...
...On another wall, an epic explosion of red: a reworking of Goya’s “Third of May” by the Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming....
...“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....
...Additional reporting by Xueqiao Wang and Cheng Leng tom.mitchell@ft.com...
...Wang says he shifted more assets from his Hong Kong family office to a new Singapore family office set up in 2021....
...“The purpose of the major is to train thought police to brainwash the entire population,” said Ming Xia, a political-science professor at the City University of New York....
...The candidate was not named in court documents, but descriptions appeared to match those of Xiong Yan, who has announced his candidacy for a US House of Representatives seat representing a district in Long...
...Massimo De Carlo scored hits through its mixed booth, including with the Chinese artists Yan Pei-Ming (“Tête de tigre II”, 2022, €250,000) and Zhao Zhao (“Spread”, 2021, $30,000)....
...Additional reporting by Xueqiao Wang in Shanghai, Maiqi Ding and Nian Liu in Beijing...
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao...
...The People’s Bank of China reiterated its criticism of Hui Ka Yan for Evergrande’s woes again in October and early December....
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