Our February issue on “Small Business” highlights the fact that Chinese firms are competing with Western firms in every area, but it still came as a surprise to me to learn that China was by 2003 “the world’s sixth most important grower of vines and tenth most important producer of wine.” Given China’s trajectory in […]

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When I arrived in Guangzhou (Canton) last September, it took me only a few minutes to notice how many Black people there were at the airport. My first thought had been that they were Western tourists, like the ones I’d met several years ago in Xi’an, and I wondered how they were received. But there […]

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