By Kam Wing Chan
Kam Wing Chan, professor of geography at the University of Washington, is an expert on Chinese population statistics and is a guest contributor to the Dragonbeat blog this week.
How big are Chinese cities? That depends on how you measure them.
Back in 2005, Time magazine proclaimed that Chongqing had become “the largest city [...]
By Tom Miller
And lo, did Beijing wave its magic wand, and there was much rejoicing!
China’s economy grew 7.9 per cent faster in the second quarter of this year than it did during the same period last year. That means GDP expanded by 7.1 per cent in the first half and is now set to hit [...]
Dragonbeat is on a trip through the tea plantations of northern Hunan and will be off for two weeks, but will return with some thoughts on Tuesday August 11.
By Arthur Kroeber
“China’s spirit”, opined the People’s Daily in a recent editorial, is a “Great Wall” built to ward off global crisis.
In purple prose heralding China’s recent heroic successes, the editorial extols the Communist Party for leading China back from the global economic abyss after the country recorded 7.9 per cent growth in the second quarter [...]
By Arthur Kroeber
Is China turning into Russia? After last month’s arrest of the head of Rio Tinto’s iron ore business in China, reportedly on suspicion of spying, one could be forgiven for thinking so.
By Russia, we mean a country in which ordinary commercial negotiations are routinely subject to interference by state security forces, where foreign [...]