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Ma Jian’s Odyssey
Red Dust (2002) is marketed as a travel book, and I picked it up because travel books are appreciated in my household – any interesting one is a good present to bring home. And it is a great travel...
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Insourcing?
James Fallows, in The Atlantic, reminds us that one of the problems with Boeing’s Dreamliner has been excessive outsourcing. And he directs us to Charles Fishman‘s story, in the same publication,...
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Chinese Junk Patents Flood Into Australia, Allowing Chinese Companies To...
Glynn Moody has the story. Let it not be said that intellectual property rights are not respected in China – they seem to be playing the game just as written!
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Copying trade secrets and catching up
From Ed Crooks in The Financial Times (register to get past paywall) US charges Sinovel with trade secret theft The US government has charged Sinovel, one of the largest Chinese wind turbine...
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Heading for the land of plenty
Tomorrow I’m going to Chengdu, Sichuan, to teach for three weeks. You can find it on a map of China if you look inland, to the southwest. Heading west from Shanghai – far west – it’s the last big...
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No graveyard: dockless bikes in Chengdu
Last November the Guardian reported on a vast graveyard of dockless bikes in the Chinese city of Xiamen. I’ve just come back from three weeks in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, and from what I...
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