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	<title>Walter Hutchens' Blog</title>
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	<description>Writing about China, law, technology &#38; sundry other matters.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Peking University School of Transnational Law</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/06/06/peking-university-school-of-transnational-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an exciting development: a US-style law school in China. 
According to reports they&#8217;ll teach in English, have already hired a highly-experienced US dean and will seek ABA accreditation. 
I have a coffee-table book with photos of campuses of Western-affiliated universities established in China before the founding of the &#8220;new&#8221; China in 1949. Instiutions [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Peking University School of Transnational Law", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/06/06/peking-university-school-of-transnational-law/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>NPR on Growth of Private Higher Education in China</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/06/06/npr-on-growth-of-private-higher-education-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good story.
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		<title>Huh? KFC Drive-thru Business in China?</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/06/05/kfc-drive-thrus-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CNBC announcer interviewing Jim Cramer today made a bone-headed comment. Cramer said it&#8217;s a good idea to buy YUM as a China play. That&#8217;s true. Cramer then said KFC&#8217;s business in China probably won&#8217;t be, as some imagine, dramatically affected by rising oil prices. The announcer then chimed in in agreement, observing that oil [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Huh? KFC Drive-thru Business in China?", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/06/05/kfc-drive-thrus-in-china/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Are Business Schools taking their Own Courses before Going to China?</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/05/16/are-business-schools-taking-their-own-courses-before-going-to-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 20:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the current issue of Business Week a short article describes some of the difficulties confronting non-Chinese universities that try to operate MBA programs in China. I talked with Alison Damast, the journalist who wrote the piece, and am briefly quoted in the article. 
Earlier this month another piece on this topic appeared in the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Are Business Schools taking their Own Courses before Going to China?", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/05/16/are-business-schools-taking-their-own-courses-before-going-to-china/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Sichuan Earthquake</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/05/15/sichuan-earthquake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I do not usually react to global disasters here&#8212;there are, alas, so many, and usually I have little to offer beyond banal expressions of sympathy, outrage, angst . . . 
The tragic earthquake in Sichuan hits close to home, though. I have traveled some in Sichuan, a magnificent province that is larger in population than [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Sichuan Earthquake", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/05/15/sichuan-earthquake/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>New Rules on Chinese Listed Company Restructurings</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/04/19/new-rules-on-chinese-listed-company-restructurings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) last week released new rules on the &#8220;material asset restructuring&#8221; of listed companies. 
The China Securities Journal reports on the new rules (in Chinese) here.
The CSRC titled the rules 上市公司重大资产重组管理办法 Shang shi gongsi zhongda zichan chongzu guanli banfa (Measures on Material Asset Restructuring by Listed Companies) and 关于规范上市公司重大资产重组若干问题的规定 Guanyu [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New Rules on Chinese Listed Company Restructurings", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/04/19/new-rules-on-chinese-listed-company-restructurings/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Which City will be China&#8217;s Financial Center?</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/04/19/which-city-will-be-chinas-financial-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month Beijing&#8217;s municipal government published a &#8220;guiding opinion&#8221; on promoting the development of the financial sector in the city (a Chinese press report about it is here, and one with more background here). 
Beijing&#8217;s Xicheng District, where &#8220;Financial Street&#8221; (Jinrong Jie) is located&#8212;the area where, inter alia, the China Securities Regulatory Commission is [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Which City will be China&#8217;s Financial Center?", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/04/19/which-city-will-be-chinas-financial-center/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ on China Stock Market Decline</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/04/19/wsj-on-china-stock-market-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Front page of Saturday&#8217;s WSJ: &#8220;China Stocks, Once Frothy, Fall by Half In Six Months,&#8221; with James Areddy and Craig Karmi reporting (avail here, sub. req&#8217;d) .
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		<title>More US Fast Food Expansion in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my international business classes I often play excerpts from Yum Brands&#8217; quarterly conference calls with financial analysts. They illustrate nicely how something as prototypically American as the parent company of KFC and Pizza Hut is now obsessed with China. Here Reuters reports that the CFO of Papa John&#8217;s pizza is in Shanghai announcing plans [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "More US Fast Food Expansion in China", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/04/17/more-us-fast-food-expansion-in-china/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Video Games vs. Conventional Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog entry from a Chinese teacher offers some thoughtful ideas about how video games, which she calls a category of internet addiction (most gamers in China play online games, not console-based games), differ from conventional education.
Along with the customary points that video games offer immediate feedback and give many incentives for continued play through [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Video Games vs. Conventional Education", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/04/17/video-games-vs-conventional-education/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Less Entry for a Lack of Exits</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/04/10/less-entry-for-a-lack-of-exits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times notes that Silicon Valley is also in a bit of a slump, with the lack of M&#38;A or IPO exits causing VCs to be more parsimonious about funding new ventures.
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		<title>China&#8217;s Markets Down More than US</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/04/07/china-markets-down-more-than-u/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An LA Times blogger posts here on recent declines in China&#8217;s stock markets, noting:
The Shanghai index rocketed from 1,000 in mid-2005 to cross 6,000 in October, drawing in millions of investors and speculators along the way.
But prices fell sharply in November amid a global stock sell-off fueled by worries over the U.S. credit crunch. Despite [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "China&#8217;s Markets Down More than US", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/04/07/china-markets-down-more-than-u/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>BOC Shares Drop Below IPO Price</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/03/20/boc-shares-drop-below-ipo-price/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Wednesday trading the Bank of China shares listed in Hong Kong briefly sank below their issuance price for the first time. Citic Bank&#8217;s A shares have also depreciated substantially in recent months (about 40%). PRC press coverage here notes the sub-prime write downs in the US have erased lots of value from US financial [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "BOC Shares Drop Below IPO Price", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/03/20/boc-shares-drop-below-ipo-price/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Citic Doesn&#8217;t Go Over the Cliff with Bear Stearns</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/03/19/citic-doesnt-go-over-the-cliff-with-bear-stearns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last year China&#8217;s CITIC Securities announced a cross-investment arrangement with Bear Stearns. According to the reported terms, Citic would have paid USD 1 billion to get 6% of Bear Stearns&#8217; stock. Now that Bear Stearns is, ah, no longer, Citic says the deal is off. 
Interestingly, no money had apparently changed hands yet, and [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Citic Doesn&#8217;t Go Over the Cliff with Bear Stearns", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/03/19/citic-doesnt-go-over-the-cliff-with-bear-stearns/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters NPC Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/03/19/reuters-npc-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some nice shots of the just-concluded Chinese National People&#8217;s Congress are collected here. The NPC plenary meetings are, to a large measure, all about images, but Reuters&#8217; collection for 2008 has some striking shots, not just the usual snaps of delegates dutifully feigning interest in the scripted pronouncements or filing in to the Great Hall [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Reuters NPC Photos", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/03/19/reuters-npc-photos/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Participation in Higher Ed in China like Saudi Arabia?</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/03/17/foreign-participation-in-higher-ed-in-china-like-saudi-arabia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because I&#8217;ve closely followed the development of foreign-sponsored higher ed. programs in China, I find especially interesting this NPR report on opposition to the development of engineering programs in Saudi Arabia sponsored by California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
The initial cohort of the program will be male only. Obviously, that would not be an [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Foreign Participation in Higher Ed in China like Saudi Arabia?", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/03/17/foreign-participation-in-higher-ed-in-china-like-saudi-arabia/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>William F. Buckley Jr., RIP</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/02/28/william-f-buckley-jr-rip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a life he led.
. . . When I was in junior high school I pulled a stack of National Review magazines out of the discard bin at my school&#8217;s library. I had no idea what they were but took them home and read them. I became a WFB devotee, watching Firing Line on PBS [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "William F. Buckley Jr., RIP", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/02/28/william-f-buckley-jr-rip/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>ChinesePod in NYT</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/02/17/chinesepod-in-nyt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Hutchens</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ChinesePod, which I&#8217;ve been recommending to language students for a long time, is discussed in this NY Times article about how technology is changing the study of foreign language.
The article also mentions LiveMocha, a site for language learning.
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		<title>Overseas Expansion by US Universities</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/02/16/overseas-expansion-by-us-universities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Hutchens</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times here reports on overseas expansion by U.S. universities. Having worked in China-based programs for the University of Maryland, I continue to be interested in this phenomenon. 
Operating abroad can be a very positive thing for US higher ed institutions. The desire to earn additional revenues drives a lot of this expansion, [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Overseas Expansion by US Universities", url: "http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/02/16/overseas-expansion-by-us-universities/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>New Small Cap China Fund&#8212;Hao bu Hao?</title>
		<link>http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2008/02/02/new-small-cap-china-fund-hao-bu-hao/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Hutchens</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Claymore/AlphaShares China Small Cap Index ETF launched Wednesday. It trades under the clever symbol HAO (good). The sponsor has information about the fund here.
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