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Chen Guangcheng

The international film industry

Models of development

Demography

Hong Kong property

The current-account surplus

Bo Xilai

China’s military rise

What they're reading

A loud hush

The tussle over self-censorship at the London Book Fair continues (56)

Feature
China's motor industry

Stepping on the gas

New car factories are being built in China at a frantic pace, and some weaker firms will get hurt. But don't expect them to cut back

Analects

Where our correspondents in China gather a collection of stray findings into a blog 

From our other blogs
Democracy in America
A pat on our back

Further thoughts on Chen Guangcheng More »

Free exchange
Feels like white elephants?

Is China investing too much? More »

Buttonwood
It's too quiet

An eerie calm in currency markets may spook investors More »

Gulliver
Sleepy hollow

An extraordinary hotel is being built in a disused quarry near Shanghai More »

What we're reading

Consequences for hospital-appointment scalpers (Danwei)
Government rationing and opportunistic entrepreneurs collide

 

Bo Xilai, a curse or a blessing? (National Bureau of Asian Research)
An interview with Cheng Li


Science and human rights (Human Rights Watch)
Concerning heroin addicts used as research subjects

 

China widens the yuan's trading band (Xinhua)
Another step on the road to more capital openness? 

Highlights
Obituary

Fang Lizhi

Fang Lizhi, physicist and dissident, died on April 6th, aged 76

Free exchange

Capital controversy

China’s “overinvestment” problem may be greatly overstated

Online whispers

The anatomy of a coup rumour

How one journalist’s seemingly innocuous tweet may have rattled Beijing

Rural poverty

Shifting the problem

A massive resettlement project in northern China is not all it seems

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