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YU HUA: Voting in China, a Distant Dream

JULY 11, 2014

BEIJING — I am 54, but have never in my life seen an election ballot.

“Have you seen one?” I ask people, out of curiosity. Like me, most of them have no idea what a ballot looks like and have only seen pictures on television of people completely unknown to them clutching a Continue reading

Yu Hua: The True Cost of China’s Fakes

JUNE 9, 2014

BEIJING — Taobao, China’s online shopping website, opened for business on May 10, 2003, a brainchild of Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group. Taobao’s range of operations spans both consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales, and during the last 11 years it has achieved spectacular growth. Continue reading