Dear Slate, yes there are chocolate bars in China
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David Tang is famous for founding the Shanghai Tang label that put Mandarin-collared shirts, cheongsam dresses and other Chinese-style fashion on boutique shelves from New York to Paris.
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Not only can the man walk to the nearest brokerage in 20 minutes, he made 60% profits on his returns from the market.
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Not the whole station, just one of the entrances.
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The gang of men helped break each other's arms in order to extort money to the tune of 100,000 RMB.
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The former head of China’s top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death today after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes, according to the state-controlled news media.
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The European Union urged China on Monday to open its markets to help redress a "huge" trade surplus with the bloc and called on it to ratify a key rights covenant.
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And that's the battle against porn. There are just too many smut sites out there for the nanny to handle.
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Thurston Moore at Coachella. Just found this quote while doing a Google News search for "shanghai car horn." Don't ask.
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Designer Tang Pushes Fashion in China
I don't understand why Chinese always feel the need to harp on the "Chinese Characteristics" bit.
There are a lot of other countries that have modernised and joined the global economy without so self-consciously harping on the need for the world to reciprocally adopt their culture. No one in London wears kimonos, so what makes Tang think they'll wear cheongsams?
Truth be told, every time I travel, I do tend to buy ethnic clothing, but then I never wear it because it just makes me look silly and childish -- like a I'm playing dress-up.