A recent interview with Jenny Bai, Founder and CEO of The Red Connect, explored the potential to export China’s brands and pop culture to the Western market. Given recent investment trends, it is apparent that China is preparing to stake its claim in new territories- and the auto industry has perhaps been the most obvious [...]

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When I first came across Xujun Eberlein’s bio, I could not help but wonder what would propel a PhD from MIT to trade algorithms in for writing. It was not until I read her book, Apologies Forthcoming, that I understood. Author Pamela Erens describes Xujun’s latest fiction as “intimate, melancholy, comic, sensuous… Social history informs [...]

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