Even today, young people from all over China come to Popo Fan to thank him: Without his film “Mama Rainbow“, they would never have dared to tell their parents the truth. In his short documentary, the filmmaker, who was born in Jiangsu in eastern China, portrayed six mothers whose children had just dared to come […]
It’s been half a year since Lang Kwai Fong really celebrated: on Halloween night on October 31, tens of thousands paraded through the bars of Hong Kong’s trendy district until the early hours of the morning. However, the Chinese Special Administrative Region had to pay a high price for the boisterous hours: COVID infection figures shot […]
Meituan is preparing to change the streetscape in Beijing. In parts of the capital, the company, which uses a yellow kangaroo as its mascot, has been given permission to test a fleet of autonomous delivery robots. The food delivery service began the pilot project back in February 2020, sending food orders to its customers this […]
Christian Ude cannot say exactly how his interest in China began. “For a long time, my wife and I had a vague interest in this ancient Chinese high culture that we knew so little about,” says the former mayor of Munich. As vague as this interest may have been at first, it was reason enough […]
Were you “hooed” as a child? Or are you perhaps “hening” your own offspring right now? If you are now standing like a chicken in front of a mountain in terms of understanding, don’t worry! You are no different than most Chinese who hear the term 鸡娃 jīwá – literally “to hen children ” – […]
The central Chinese city of Chengdu will be joining a very special club this summer: The capital of Sichuan province will then become the third city in China, after Shanghai and Beijing, to have two international airports at once. The two terminals of the new Tianfu Airport, which together cover an area of 600,000 square […]
Beijing’s Panjiayuan flea market sometimes hides remarkable finds among secondhand books. A few years ago, I acquired an exclusive anniversary coffee-table book from 1990, published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Juan Antonio Samaranch, the president of the International Olympic Committee.The IOC chief, born in 1920, was used to being courted everywhere – thanks to […]
The automotive supplier Mahle GmbH has reported an increase in sales of around four percent in its China business in 2020. According to the company, of the €1.3 billion in total sales in China, the Thermal Management division brought in the largest share at around €370 million. On the other hand, the Filtration and Engine […]
The Chinese economy grew by 6.5% in the fourth quarter of 2020, providing a strong indication that it has recovered from the COVID-19 shock. The market consensus is that, due to base effects, GDP growth shot up to more than 18% year on year in the first quarter of 2021, and will fall steadily in the remaining three quarters of the […]
The fact that Austria and China are celebrating the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic relations this year is also thanks to Gerd Kaminski. “At the time, I demonstrated in terms of international law why it was okay to establish diplomatic relations with China,” says the Austrian legal scholar. His article on the recognition of the […]
