Chinese Views


Children can’t make ‘cents’ of real money. Is it worrisome?

MELANIE Zhang didn’t realize that she had never taught her 8-year-old daughter about renminbi until recently, when the Grade-2 student was struggling with homework that required her to solve a maths problem ...

June 24, 2024, Monday


Whose language is it anyway? Chinese words are gaining traction internationally

Ink wash art is naturally mesmerizing for the amazing beauty of the brush dancing on rice paper in a way that evokes the rhythm, power and elegance of flowing water. In simple, yet complex, black and ...

November 29, 2018, Thursday


May on whirlwind tour to rally support for Brexit deal

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday embarked on an election-style campaign across the country, leaving behind a hostile House of Commons, which will cast the make-or-break vote on her Brexit ...

November 29, 2018, Thursday


Business should care, for everyone’s good

For the past several decades, economic growth and globalization have lifted a tremendous number of people out of poverty. But the cold hard fact is that most dividends of growth were obtained by a small ...

November 21, 2018, Wednesday


Shanghai sorting out a sustainable future

ON November 6, President Xi Jinping, while visiting a community center in Shanghai’s Hongkou District, commented that waste-sorting is a “new fashion,” and that Shanghai should make sure that garbage ...

November 14, 2018, Wednesday


City pivotal in Yangtze River Delta development

THE integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta will be supported and raised to a national strategy, President Xi Jinping noted in the keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the recent China ...

November 14, 2018, Wednesday


Escaping online shopping gala to rural idyll

ON November 11, the day when a shopping gala gripped the nation on Alibaba’s B2C platform Tmall, offering steep product discounts, I bought nothing. My fellow countrymen, on the other hand, went into ...

November 13, 2018, Tuesday


A scientist who not only sees the wood and the trees, but the light

IMPENETRABLE scientific ideas can sometimes be illuminated by a tiny firefly. That’s how William E. Moerner explained his discovery of the blinking single molecule that led him to share the 2014 Nobel ...

November 2, 2018, Friday


From cradle to chorus: rejuvenating opera

TIMES may be constantly changing, but art has an eternal role to play in sustaining our universal need to see ourselves against the perspective of a greater whole. Expressions of beauty, struggle, love ...

November 1, 2018, Thursday


Rural tourism: Success depends on more than just green fields and a nostalgic idyll

EXPERTS from home and abroad exchanged their views on how to leverage local resources in rural tourism, and shared their insights into the many pitfalls that could be avoided, at a forum held over the ...

October 31, 2018, Wednesday




 

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