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Why are the Chinese so devoted to knockoffs?

That’s the subject of this interesting article in the International Herald Tribune. The article begins with a crazy-sounding anecdote — apparently, a property developer in southern China built a...

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Does this Chinese cabbie love Louis Vuitton? Or hate them?

From a faithful student correspondent (who won’t be named so that Louis Vuitton’s famously aggressive lawyers won’t try to seize his camera), comes this picture taken from the back of a taxi tooling...

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Shanzhai skyscrapers

Kal and I have a new post today up at the Freakonomics blog, this time on an close replica in the Chinese city of Chongqing of a building designed by starchitect Zaha Hadid that’s currently being built...

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