Here’s What Happens to the Athletic Wear Industry When China Starts Going to the Gym
If the world’s big sportswear brands could invent a country with just the right mix of ingredients to fuel their businesses for years to come, it would look a lot like present-day China.
China’s Growing Obesity Problem
A recent study published shows that China can now lay claim to having a greater percentage of obese men and women than in the United States.
Chinese Middle Class in Uproar Over Alleged Police Brutality
Thousands are signing online petitions to protest the dropping of a police brutality case, representing a rare display of white-collar outrage with Beijing
Chinese Consumers Adopt Greener Lifestyle
from chinadialogueFor the last two years, Helen Ni has hosted low-carbon technology workshops for local kids and their parents. The informal gatherings take place at her ground-floor apartment in the Shanghai suburb of Minhang, close to Jiaotong...
China Has Gained Hugely from Globalization, So Why Are Its Workers So Unhappy?
Now, more than ever, working-class Chinese fret about rising inequality, the impact of mass migration from the countryside into cities and job losses
589 Million Chinese Tourists Will Spend $72 Billion in Just 7 Days Celebrating “Golden Week”
Unexpectedly, the new hot destination is Morocco
Chinese Tourists Encouraged to Behave Ahead of Mass Vacation
Public urination and defacing monuments are no-nos
China’s Middle Class Vents Over Growing List of Grievances
A father’s death in custody is the latest incident to fuel urbanites’ sense of unease.
China's Middle-Class Anxieties
They get that the cause of their various discontents is the one-party system, but they also appreciate that the system underwrites their comfortable lives.
China's Middle Class Isn't What We Thought It Was
For years, multinational companies have been rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the growth of the Chinese middle class.
China’s Middle Class Has Overtaken the U.S.’s to Become the World’s Largest
China has crossed another economic threshold.
China’s Middle-Class Dreams in Peril
Smaller cities on the cusp of China’s transformation toward consumer-driven growth struggle to overcome ill effects of previous economic model.
Skiing Is the Latest Obsession for China’s Wealthy
Winter sports are catching on as Beijing bids to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
China’s Growing Middle Class Chafes Against Red Tape
As China’s middle class—wired, ambitious and worldly—grows, its members increasingly are intolerant.
China’s Real Inconvenient Truth: Its Class Divide
China is talking about its pollution problem, but its equally serious class problem remains obscured behind the...
Inside the Property Revolution
from Sinica PodcastLuigi Tomba, expert on municipal government in China, fellow at the Australian Centre on China and the World, and author of the book ...
Is the American Middle Class Losing Out to China and India?
CUNY professor Branko Milanovic says the middle class in China and India experienced 60 to 70 percent income growth from 1998 to 2008, while middle class growth stalled in the United States.
‘Chinese Dream’ of a Young Couple in Chengdu [Video]
China’s economy has grown enormously over the past decade and its middle class is now estimated to number 150 million. The BBC’s Linda Yueh has been speaking to one couple from Chengdu on their desire to live the Chinese Dream...
Will The Middle Class Shake China?
A decade after recognizing that the middle class might be a signpost on the way to redemption, the government is failing to enact the will of the people it needs most, and thus it risks losing its greatest bulwark against the change it...