Setting the price

Changing economic landscape forces multinational companies to alter pricing strategies in China.

High road to growth

Democratic style keeps price flat

Pricing strategies for success

Unraveling the value mystique

Quotable

"Many economists often answer questions in the sensational fashion used by entertainment program hosts. Emphasizing the bleak economic prospects for China is a sure-fire way to draw more eyeballs."

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Foreign retailers bank hopes on China

China can produce. Can China create?

The challenge of innovation is what new leaders face.

Vying for position on the giant retail shelf

A step down the ladder

How to keep staying ahead

Great malls of China

Galeries Lafayette, the iconic department store in Paris and a major shopping destination for throngs of Chinese tourists, will be giving it a second shot in China next year.

The Mall Man

Quotable

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Where consumers are keystone kings

All that glitters is sold

Ready for the challenge

Ready for the gold rush

Pushing to the Max

The world is their oyster

Jumbo shrimp on the block

Pigtails to posh toff

Some Chinese parents are placing their toddlers in line for admission to top British schools. Are they on the right track?

Smoothing the way to a higher degree

Set in stone

Music, happiness walk hand-in-hand

Coming into its own

Tianjin, one of the four municipalities directly under the central government, is considered by many to be the gateway to Beijing.

A cut above

An ankle-length dress with suspenders and prominent prints of teapots in different colors and shapes on display in the window of a store called Chictopia. Streams of women visiting Nanluoguxiang, one of Beijing's traditional alleyways, stop to stare at the dress and discuss its bold and arresting design.

His masters' voice

Filmed memoir strengthens bond between mom, daughter

For Lisa Xia, who moved to the United States at age 4, her mother's story was one more symbol of the distance between them, an account of a history that felt worlds away. So when a documentary-film maker interviewed the two women in hope of adapting the book for the screen, it was clear that their relationship should play a pivotal role in the story.

Brush with history

It is a major exhibition of contemporary calligraphy by leading artists from Britain and across the world.

Conferences & Meetings

Diplomatic Pouch: With Mike Peters

I told you so, twice over

Martin Jacques says China doom-mongers were typically dismissive when he argued the former Middle Kingdom would have a central role in shaping the 21st century.