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Home is where the hukou is
Posted on 25-01-2011China’s hukou or household registration system ties every citizen to a place of residence and gives him or her a rural or urban status. Social services, like healthcare benefits, free education, and elderly care, are only available in the registered place of residence – a problem for China’s floating population of 211 million people.
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The daunting task of Chinese firms “going global”
Posted on 18-02-2010At the Chinese Dutch Business Summit in The Hague in October last year, 20 Chinese companies committed themselves to jointly investing 683 million euros in The Netherlands. What moved these Chinese enterprises to expand their operations to The Netherlands? And what are their chances of success?
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Written Chinese and China’s political heritage
Posted on 23-10-2009Written Chinese characters are intrinsically more complex than the letters of an alphabet. It takes Chinese children twice as long to learn them, and they require a greater effort to retain in memory once learnt. Could this help to explain China’s political evolution? That’s the question posed by Professor Max Boisot and his colleague Yan Li.
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Shanzhai: the fashion of imitation
Posted on 21-08-2009A new hype is breaking grounds in China’s society: Shanzhai. The term, literally translated as ‘mountain village’ or ‘mountain stronghold’, was adopted to refer to Chinese knock-off goods and pirated brands produced in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, by now, the term has come to refer to Chinese originality and creativity, and is virtually developing into a fashionable culture of its own. How did the meaning of Shanzhai change from cheap imitation into hip fashion?
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And the winner is… the Chinese high-tech entrepreneur
Posted on 17-06-2009Chinese high-tech entrepreneurs might not seem well equipped to survive the current crisis: most of their companies are small; they have little financial capital at their disposal; their markets are small; and their brands are hardly known. Yet they are likely to emerge from the crisis as winners, says Mark Greeven, who has interviewed Chinese entrepreneurs in the IT industry extensively during his PhD research. He predicts they will become a force to be reckoned with even for large foreign enterprises.
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China’s perception of the international financial crisis
Posted on 01-04-2009How does China view the international financial crisis? Prof. Dr. Barbara Krug, Erasmus University’s leading expert on the Chinese economy, addresses this issue through three sub questions. First, how is China affected? Second, how does China evaluate the causes of the crisis? Third, as a result of this evaluation, how will China react to the financial crisis, both economically and politically?
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High-tech development in China
Posted on 28-05-2008Western companies have started moving their high-tech development divisions to China. What this entails in practice, Robert van Gerwen has experienced first-hand: for the past two years, he has worked as NXP China’s General Manager for the development of set top boxes that enable digital television. He told us about his company’s move to China, his experiences managing a Chinese development team, and his expectations for indigenous Chinese high-tech development.
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An insider’s view on China’s transition
Posted on 06-02-2008Prof. Dr. Barbara Krug is Erasmus University’s leading expert on the Chinese economy. The German-born China-scholar has over 30 years of experience in China; most of this time she has spent collecting statistical data and interviewing Party cadres and the emerging group of entrepreneurs. The story of her life and research provides a unique insider’s view of China’s changes.
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The challenge of China’s economic growth
Posted on 30-01-2008The international consensus is that economic growth is beneficial to developing countries. Therefore, Western countries provide developmental aid to stimulate economic growth. But when it comes to China, those same Western countries view economic growth as a threat. This essay sheds a different light upon the apparent threat that emerges from China’s economic growth by focusing on who and what exactly are growing in China.
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China’s No. 1 Business Woman
Posted on 31-07-2007Yan Cheung is the richest female entrepreneur and the number five richest person in China. According to Forbes, this golden lady is worth 1.5 billion dollars. In the half year after the initial stock listing of her company Nine Dragons Paper Holdings Limited in March 2006, there was a 165 percent surge in stock prices and Cheung’s name rose in China’s rich lists. Because Cheung is a woman, her story is often portrayed as one about emancipation. However, Cheung’s story is more about keen entrepreneurial senses in an age of expanding possibilities.
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The 'Grandfather' of Chinese E-Business
Posted on 28-02-2007What are the odds of an English teacher founding China’s largest e-commerce company? In 1999, in the surroundings of his own apartment, Jack Ma founded an internet company that was supposed to open the gates of western markets to Chinese products. Although many of his friends and family members thought it wouldn’t work, and foreign journalists commented he had good ideas and great spirit, but no revenue, Ma was confident his company would succeed. And it did.
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