Future power

Demand for clean energy gives Chinese nuclear companies ample opportunities in overseas markets.

Nuclear plans still on course

Looking beyond the boundaries

Structuring a healthy blueprint

Quotable

"We're always saying that we have to educate our children well. But who will educate these kinds of teachers?"

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Plan to outlaw foreign educational consultants

Time for the cash cows to find new growth pastures

The tenets of neo-liberal economics are right in preferring the market to the government in allocating resources. This principle also reminds us that an economy cannot expect fast and sustainable growth based on government control. This is borne out not only by what happened in the former Soviet Union, but in China as well until 36 years ago.

Note to neo-cons: Earth orbits the sun

It's all a matter of long-term survival

EU debt crisis is a snake with nine heads

Private companies fly the flag on distant shores

What they lack in resources, they make up for with the will to succeed.

Have work, need help

Quotable

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A local area network goes global

Cooking up success

Tempering the overseas appetite

Pick-me-up for groggy weightlifters

Sitting pretty

Expand and deliver

China and the missing knowledge link

Mahjong's magic casts a growing spell

After spending most of his life working as a security guard at a state-owned factory, Liang Jianguo took on a role he never imagined.

Out from under

Typical expressions from pre-revolutionary China

A break from the city

News reports about East China are normally about the region's strong manufacturing base and international business links, or because it has driven the country's economic development for three decades. Beauty and serenity are words rarely used to describe the region, but just 100 kilometers from Shanghai, one of China's busiest cities, sits the tranquility of Jiaxing water town, a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province.

Life through a lens

Isabel Wolte has had a lifelong fascination with the human soul and the purpose of life. The philosophical questions attached to these subjects have led her toward Chinese culture, and more particularly Chinese film, as a means to explore them and find answers.

My blessed career

An eye on sci-fi

In Ken Liu's Hugo Award-winning short story The Paper Menagerie, a Chinese mail-order bride literally blows life into tiny paper animals folded for her American son. The story, which also won a Nebula Award in 2011, puts Liu in exclusive company with Harlan Ellison and only a few other prestigious science fiction authors who have won both awards.

A look into British Chinese

Between East and West is an artistic investigation by photographer Mike Tsang into what it means to be British-born Chinese featuring 15 photographic portraits, archival imagery and oral history interviews.

Conferences & Meetings

Diplomatic Pouch: With Mike Peters

Oxford aims for China excellence

Rana Mitter wants to make Oxford one of the major centers of learning about China in the world.