weijian shan

How Janet Yellen came to teach a Chinese hard labourer economics

A Beijing boy's escape from digging ditches in the desert to lecturing at Wharton: Weijian Shan’s memoir Out of the Gobi makes for an inspiring holiday read.

July 25, 2019

Investors give China's SOE reforms the thumbs down

Attempts to rejuvenate state-owned industrial behemoths are too slow and come with too many caveats, investors say. They see far more opportunities in China’s private sector.

September 18, 2017