“Being rich and living the life of an aristocrat are not the same thing,” said Rupert Hoogewerf, author of 2008 Hurun Report of New Aristocracy, who is known better by his Chinese name Hu Run. He said the report was complied after analyzing the lifestyles of more than 100 super rich people in China and not all spend lavishly.

An aristocrat in China generally spends around 4.57 million yuan ($672,000) a year. However, to live as an aristocrat, the super rich must have spent at least 83 million yuan. The report describes a typical aristocrat. Read more…

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As the tendency that more and more people would like to know China, a lot of authors tried to introduce China to foreign friends through different perspectives.

A very famous Chinese researcher Jin Bo, recently published a book about China called Understanding China: Introduction to China’s History, Society and Culture both in English and French.

Although there are not many pages about the ancient glories of the Tang and Yuan dynasties or the profound thoughts of Confucius and Lao Tzu, this book is still a good choice for the foreign friends who begin to be interested in China. Read more…

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