In the Hutong Mahndei, Mahndei 0815 hrs. In a brilliant essay in The Atlantic by Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, the venerable China scholar captures a spontaneous moment in a performance in Beijing by Meryl Streep and Yo-Yo Ma and turns it into the [...]
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Understanding the way China is governed, and why.
When Life Should Imitate Art
Posted by David Wolf on February 20, 2012
http://siliconhutong.com/2012/02/20/when-life-should-imitate-art/
Television Regulations: New Bottle, Same Wine (With Corrections)
In the Hutong Black Lung Control 1047 hrs. In the Valentine’s Day edition of The New York Times, Andrew Jacobs describes the new regulations issued yesterday by the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT), most specifically including two key restrictions: the prohibition of foreign programming during prime time, and the limitation of foreign [...]
Posted by David Wolf on February 15, 2012
http://siliconhutong.com/2012/02/15/television-regulations-new-bottle-same-wine/
Deconstructing China’s Nationalists
To Screw Foreigners by Geremie R. Barmé In an essay from 15 years ago that remains one of the best background pieces on Chinese nationalism that I have ever read, professor Jeremy Barmé of the Australian National University delves into the historical and philosophical underpinnings of this rising ethos. There is a growing consensus among [...]
Posted by David Wolf on January 18, 2012
http://siliconhutong.com/2012/01/18/deconstructing-chinas-nationalists/
US Listed Chinese Companies: The Clock is Ticking
U.S. Regulators Push Chinese to Resume Auditor-Inspection Talks – Businessweek. The U.S. is ratcheting up the rhetoric in the battle to improve the quality of auditing being done on Chinese firms listing or listed on U.S. stock exchanges. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCOAB) are trying to get [...]
Posted by David Wolf on November 24, 2011
http://siliconhutong.com/2011/11/24/us-listed-chinese-companies-the-clock-is-ticking/
Eight Questions the WSJ Could Have Asked KPMG China
Managing in Asia: KPMG Audit Chief Benny Liu Faces China Risks – WSJ.com. As a public relations professional myself, I want to congratulate the KPMG PR team on their coup in today’s Wall Street Journal. In an interview with the Journal‘s Duncan Mavin, Benny Liu, the head of the Audit practice at KPMG China is [...]
Posted by David Wolf on October 24, 2011
http://siliconhutong.com/2011/10/24/eight-questions-the-wsj-could-have-asked-kpmg-china/
VIEs: The Long Resolution
In the Hutong Prepping the Pack Meeting 0917 hrs. In the course of some debates about China, all you learn is how strong peoples opinions are. Yet in a few cases, the debate itself is a socratic-style graduate seminar not only on the topic but on China. The back-and-forth online around the status and eventual [...]
Posted by David Wolf on October 14, 2011
http://siliconhutong.com/2011/10/14/vies-the-long-resolution/
It’s Media, Chief, But Not As We Know It
In the Hutong Hoping rain will clear the air 1224 hours In late July I noted in “The Alipay Warning” that an overlooked editorial from Xinhua might be an early warning to foreign investors in many Chinese online companies that the party is almost over. My point was that the government is signalling that virtual [...]
Posted by David Wolf on September 7, 2011
http://siliconhutong.com/2011/09/07/its-media-chief-but-not-as-we-know-it/
Railway Reform is Coming to Town
In the Hutong Managing Chaos 1311 hrs. In a characteristically articulate editorial last week, Caixin called for an extensive overhaul of China’s Ministry of Railways (MoR) in the wake of the high-speed train crash in Wenzhou on July 23rd. The publication called for an open investigation into the accident conducted by experts from outside the [...]
Posted by David Wolf on August 12, 2011
http://siliconhutong.com/2011/08/12/railway-reform-is-coming-to-town/
Understanding Xinhua
Hutong West Planning August 1943 hrs. In an superb article on veteran New York Times media reporter David Carr, Tom McGeveran quoted legendary media watcher Gay Talese: “I consider The New York Times news,” he said. “Fascinating news. It has been sitting in judgment of America for more than a century and it, too, should [...]
Posted by David Wolf on July 28, 2011
http://siliconhutong.com/2011/07/28/understanding-xinhua/
The Winds Are a Changin’
Hutong West Staying awake for a conference call 2259 hrs. In making the case that the business climate for foreign businesses in China is changing for the worse, I have been challenged by people I respect greatly to “prove” it. There is no shortage of large foreign enterprises doing well in the PRC, something I [...]
Posted by David Wolf on July 27, 2011
http://siliconhutong.com/2011/07/27/the-winds-are-a-changin/
The Alipay Warning
Hutong West Watching the Overcast Burn 1120 hrs. Sometimes, when the Chinese government is considering or planning a policy change, they will make some sort of formal announcement in advance. But not always: often, they will signal their intentions more subtly. That is the kind of behavior that keeps policy analysts in business, and that [...]
Posted by David Wolf on July 25, 2011
http://siliconhutong.com/2011/07/25/the-alipay-warning/
Primer on China’s Leadership Transition (via Patrick Chovanec)
In the Hutong Reading Heavily 1841 hrs. I have never reposted other bloggers here on Silicon Hutong, but after reading this piece I decided it was time to start a new tradition. Professor Chovanec offers what is without doubt one of the most concise yet complete overviews ever of a political event in China, and [...]
Posted by David Wolf on May 10, 2011
http://siliconhutong.com/2011/05/10/primer-on-chinas-leadership-transition-via-patrick-chovanec/
Is Film Finance in China About to Change?
In the Hutong Break time 1120 hrs. Since China began the reforming and opening process in the late 1970s, a small number of industries have been held outside the reforms that most other sectors have enjoyed. One of those industries has been the national defense complex, and the other has been media. The media and [...]
Posted by David Wolf on May 9, 2011
http://siliconhutong.com/2011/05/09/is-film-finance-in-china-about-to-change/
Handicapping Little Sheep
In the Hutong I hate writing about food before dinner 1721 hrs Tom Orlick, who does the Heard on the Street pieces for China at the Wall Street Journal, did a short but excellent rundown of some of the commercial challenges Chinese hot-pot chain Little Sheep faces as global fast-food monster YUM (owner of KFC, [...]
Posted by David Wolf on May 2, 2011
http://siliconhutong.com/2011/05/02/handicapping-little-sheep/
An Old China Hand and China’s New Foreign Policy Factory
In the Hutong New Year Day Five 1718 hrs. Ross Terrill of the Fairbank Center is an old China Hand, and he writes incisively about a range of topics on China, most notably the nation’s foreign policy. Recently, he contributed a brilliant article to the Wilson Quarterly entitled “The Case for Selective Failure“, in which [...]
Posted by David Wolf on February 7, 2011
http://siliconhutong.com/2011/02/07/an-old-china-hand-and-chinas-new-foreign-policy-factory/
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