He combined contemporaneous political issues with elements from a Chinese parable and the story of the judgment of Solomon, in which two women claim the same child.
Global businesses from Apple to GM and Starbucks have been targeting China for growth at a time of sluggish gains in the U.S. and especially Europe. (Click here for a related story about Chinese government treatment of Apple.) Belle, besides selling its own brands, is a distributor for Nike.
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Chapter 7 tells the story of a Chinese Internet entrepreneur who started an e-commerce company that defeated eBay in China.
The Chinese success story is now the Chinese winner of a competitive international forum or contest.
Simons also played the Chinese Internet story, establishing a position in Youku and tripling his stake in Baidu, while selling U.S. names like Netflix, Google, and eBay. (Read Apple To Dominate Tablet Market Through 2015, Google Takes Smartphones).
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In a Boston Globe story, the man who was carjacked -- a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur identified only as Danny -- described his 90-minute ordeal, from when a man brandishing a silver handgun got into his Mercedes to when he ran for his life into a Mobil gas station's supply room.
And then there was the immigration issue, where she, of Malaysian birth and Chinese heritage, might have offered a compelling personal story to a crowd waiting to hear it.
If you mine the newspaper archives for last year, or the year before (well, not exactly, you need for Chinese New Year, which being based on a lunar calendar is a movable feast) you will see many a story about how factories were desperately short of the labour they needed in the big Chinese manufacturing towns.
Our Dec. 10 story on the Chinese shipping giant Cosco Group referred to a Hong Kong-listed unit, China Cosco Holdings.
The story of John Rabe, a German businessman who tried to help Chinese civilians until his government stopped him, is also prominent, if underdeveloped.
Average Chinese investors are buying gold as a hedge against inflation, according to a feature story in China Daily on Tuesday.
But the "obsolete-map" story is not credible to Chinese scholars, says Yang Dazhou, a retired senior fellow at the Academy of Social Sciences and China's top Balkans expert.
According to the THR story, Marvel will tailor a version of Iron Man 3 for the Chinese audience which will include more screen time for Chinese star Fan Bingbing.
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