China's Super-Rich Buy a Better Life Abroad
As China’s rich continue to get richer, their affluence often comes with a desire for geographic mobility. CNN reports: “As of April this year, China has 960,000 millionaires with personal assets of 10...
View ArticlePlan B for China’s Wealthy
A growing trend amongst members of China’s upper class is the aspiration to move abroad. An article in the Wall Street Journal tells the story of a few affluent might-be migrants and their reasons for...
View ArticleA Better Life Abroad, But Where?
Though China’s super-rich increasingly look for geographic mobility, and immigration applications to the United States has jumped over the past two years, has the perception of America changed in the...
View ArticleChina’s Richest Man, “One Yuan at a Time”
Bloomberg Businessweek profiles Zong Qinghou, the chairman of Chinese beverage giant Wahaha, who has risen to become mainland China’s wealthiest man: Even in a country that has exploded in wealth and...
View ArticleAs Millionaire Growth Slows, New Richest Man Emerges
The Global Times looks at a new report from Hurun and GroupM Knowledge which shows that, amid an extended economic slowdown, 2012 saw a five-year low in the growth of multi-millionaires and...
View ArticleChina’s Billionaires Ignore One Child Rule
At her South China Morning Post blog, Anna Healy Fenton sums up the recently released 2013 Hurun Rich List. After giving an overview of trends in the ranks of China’s super-rich, she focuses in on...
View ArticleInside China’s Mistress Industrial Complex
In recent years, stories of adultery have been flooding Chinese and China-focused headlines (and have also occasionally been banned from discussion on Sina Weibo), and attention has been drawn to the...
View ArticleMeet Chen Anzhi, China’s Tony Robbins
At the New Republic, Christopher Beam tells the story of China’s most successful motivational speaker Chen Anzhi, who teaches people how become super-rich within ten years: Chen Anzhi, who also goes by...
View ArticleVideo: “Mapping China’s Immigrant Investors”
CDT has translated a video by iRead Magazine and Ming’en Media on the outbound flow of wealthy Chinese immigrant investors globally, explaining the various requirements held by each destination...
View ArticleAn Anticlimactic End to the “Arctic Catfish” Scandal
After 200 days, the long-running “Arctic Catfish” scandal has reached a conclusion, dissatisfying and anticlimactic as it may be. It began after social media user “Arctic Catfish” (北极鲶鱼, Běijí...
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