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2021-22 CBA season tips off looking radically different than recent past
China’s COVID-19 restrictions have taken the air out of its top domestic basketball league: Only five foreign players are currently signed with CBA teams. One of those, however, is a familiar name: Jeremy Lin, who is back with the Beijing Ducks.
Editor’s note for Friday, October 15, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Apple takes down a Koran app in China; Squid Game in the Taiwan Strait; finance apps similar to RobinHood could be next to be rectified; Moody’s and PBoC agree that Evergrande crisis is manageable.
Justice for Lhamo: Man handed death sentence for live-streamed murder of ex-wife
She was an internet influencer with a picture perfect onscreen life, until her husband doused her with gasoline and set her on fire in the middle of a livestream.
What will be the next ByteDance craze?
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Highlights from Shanghai Fashion Week: 2022 Spring/Summer
The latest Shanghai Fashion Week (October 8 to 16) is coming to a close. Here are some of the things we saw and liked.
Netflix doc ‘Found’: Three teenage girls seek roots in China
‘Found’ offers an on-the-ground, humanistic look at China through the eyes of three teenage adoptees.
Editor’s note for Thursday, October 14, 2021
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
LinkedIn gives up on Chinese social media dream
LinkedIn, which since 2014 has represented the largest social media portal through Beijing’s Great Firewall, has decided to close down its localized China version. Increased censorship pressure, compliance costs for new laws, local competition, and bad PR outside of China may have all contributed to the move.
Tutoring crackdown: Beijing steps in to broker refunds on behalf of parents
After Beijing banned for-profit tutoring, parents asked for their money back. Now the government is stepping in to ensure they can actually get it.
A history of Taiwan-China economic ties, by Shelley Rigger
Taiwan was the engine that powered China’s transformation into a global economic superpower, the scholar Shelley Rigger writes in her new book, “The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China’s Economic Rise.” She appeared on the Sinica Podcast to discuss the history of cross-Taiwan Strait economic ties.
Government memo hints at the kind of tutoring Beijing wants
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Tower running finds a foothold in China
Between 2018 and 2019, more than 150 tower running races were held in China. Called “vertical marathoning” in Chinese, the sport of sprinting up skyscrapers has burgeoned in this country of tall buildings.
Editor’s note for Wednesday, October 13, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Lots of noises about Taiwan, including accusations of American “salami slicing” from Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Lè Yùchéng 乐玉成 and “war porn” illustrations from the Global Times.
A shared spreadsheet reveals working hours at China’s biggest internet companies
Chinese tech companies are notorious for their punishing work schedules that often mean 12 hours a day at the office, six days a week. Since 2019, there has been a growing clamor from tech staff to cut their work time, but it does not seem to have worked, judging from a new crowdsourced survey.
Coffin
The cruel reality of Hong Kong’s cubicle apartments
Real estate contagion watch continues with more defaults and downgrades
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OneSmart goes bankrupt as the tutoring ban moves forward
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The story of China’s first atomic bomb
On October 16, 1964, “Miss Qiu” exploded atop a 102-meter-tall “dressing table” in Xinjiang. And just like that, China became a nuclear-weapon state.
Editor’s note for Tuesday, October 12, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Xi Jinping dials in to a UN meeting on biodiversity and announces major initiatives, including the establishment of China’s first batch of national parks; Harvard’s Chinese language program has relocated from Beijing to Taipei.
Shanxi floods leave dozens dead, 120,000 displaced, and hundreds of cultural relics damaged
Another deadly deluge has hit a Chinese province, three months after the Henan floods. At least 29 have died and hundreds of “immovable cultural relics” have been damaged in the flooding in Shanxi.
