Rachel Cheung

5 days ago | thewirechina.com | Ella Apostoaie |Rachel Cheung

Liu Xiaoming, Governor of Hainan Province, delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Entrepreneurs, December 3, 2024. Credit: Boao Forum for Entrepreneurs As the many fans of the HBO blockbuster show Succession know, managing transitions at family companies can be difficult — and entertaining. Another such drama is playing out in real life at Double Star, once a leading Chinese shoe brand.

5 days ago | thewirechina.com | Ella Apostoaie |Rachel Cheung

Every year, millions of Chinese workers leave their homes in the countryside to work in cities and factories in more developed parts of China. The sweat of their brows has fueled the country’s economic rise in the last few decades, but now they are growing older and facing a more precarious future.

2 weeks ago | thewirechina.com | Ella Apostoaie |Rachel Cheung

David Webb, activist investor and founder of Webb-site.com, during an event at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong, May 12, 2025. Credit: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg via Getty Images For decades, David Webb has been on a one-man crusade to expose corporate wrongdoing and demand greater transparency in Asia’s largest financial market. Now, the voice of this self-appointed guardian of the Hong Kong investing world is fading out.

3 weeks ago | thewirechina.com | Ella Apostoaie |Rachel Cheung

Face-Off: U.S. vs. ChinaA podcast about the turbulent relationship between the world's two superpowers, the two men who run them, and the vital issues that affect us all. In a special bonus episode recorded live at the Asia Society, host Jane Perlez speaks with journalist and scholar Orville Schell about his 50 years covering Chinese leaders and their American counterparts. They attempt to answer the question: how did we get here?

1 month ago | chinabooksreview.com | Taili Ni |Rachel Cheung

In 2020, one of China’s leading private-sector book publishers, Beijing Motie Book (磨铁图书), bought the Chinese-language rights to Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020). Motie thought the book was perfectly timed for the Chinese market. The Amazon founder was then the world’s richest man, and his Chinese technology billionaire peers were also riding high.