How does small-town China live in the shadow of the country’s boomtown cities? How do ordinary Chinese in towns most people have not even heard of grapple with the conflicting forces of tradition and modernity? How do so many of them circumvent the one-child policy – and what does that mean for consumption trends? How [...]

China’s workers are taking to the streets in ever increasing numbers – demanding unpaid wages, better working conditions and severance pay. They are angered by management abuses, and emboldened by the new Labour Contract Law and their own ability to organize. China Labour Bulletin’s new report on the state of the labor movement in China [...]

Join us for our usual monthly social evening, where FCCC members and friends get together to chew the cud and imbibe the beer. Last month, we succeeded in draining every last drop from every last keg. Well, it’s thirsty work unwinding on a Friday evening on a pleasantly breezy roof terrace. DATE: Friday, July 3rd [...]

How did an army of regular Joes (and Janes) create Wikipedia – now the World Wide Web’s no.8 site? Andrew Lih, new media and technology expert, will share the inside story from his new book The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia. A contributing “Wikipedian” for the past five [...]

Despite the current global financial crisis, several big Asian economies continue to grow fast. What are the critical forces shaping the Asian business and economic environment? Economics professor Ivan Tselichtchev will summarize the lessons of a new book he coauthored, Asia’s Turning Point: An Introduction to Asia’s Dynamic Economies at the Dawn of the New [...]