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Three memories of the 20th century. We recommend three new books — *Memoirs* by Raymond Aron (expanded edition), *Auschwitz Testimonies, 1945–1986*, and *Tumult* — plus a few older ones.
More blockbusters thinned out how often people went to the movies, which in turn pushed the whole industry to look for new subjects and new stories.
The Chinese-language internet has gradually become a centralized network built around Tencent and its partners.
On the individual in a time like this: three new books — *Neighbors*, *Beautiful Souls* and *Born Guilty* — plus a few older ones.
Growth and bubbles driven by enormous capital, the wealth and the problems piled up along the way, and a political direction no one can predict — after more than 20 years of prosperity, all three tangled together in this year's business world. There was no shortage of hot stories, but look closely and business logic was not what decided which companies won and which lost. This is the fourth piece in our series on 2017's biggest business stories.
It's not being replaced that should worry you — it's having to keep learning new skills.
Design is no longer just a vessel for art or culture. It is slowly becoming a medium that carries more varied messages and takes on more difficult questions.
A home is the largest commodity a person can buy, and it is also one of the witnesses to how an individual's life changes. QDaily is running a series of reports that use housing as a thread for looking at what happened in the past.
Whatever its original intentions, political correctness has undeniably made the world more anxious and more divided — and it has done nothing to solve any of the problems it claims to address.
They were hippies, philosophers, artists — and architects.
The line between the two is blurring.
The first thing you notice about Ken Liu is how candid he is. And candor is a virtue.
In a sense his job is already done: he wrote the business model for the industry and put it on the fast track to pan-entertainment.
"We live on a flying sphere. That's a crazy thing," says Alicja Kwade.
Shenzhen's urban villages are treated as a "family shame." What do they actually mean for this fast-growing city?
Growth and bubbles pumped up by vast amounts of capital, the wealth and the problems piled up along the way, and policy directions nobody can pin down — after more than 20 years of boom, the three tangled together in this year's business world. There was no shortage of hot topics, but look closely and business logic was not what decided which companies won and which lost. This is the third piece in our 2017 Big Business Stories series.
Avant-garde, unruly, unfiltered.
As the year draws to a close, we're using ten articles to round up the year's most important business news — news that usually signals a shift in an industry, or is the result of one.
"Art reflects its era — the times you live in shape the work you make."
You have almost certainly heard of it, but you probably don't use it much.
Sometimes poverty doesn't limit your imagination. It sets it off.
Its partner JAC mostly builds cheap family cars that sell for under 100,000 yuan.
"What connection is there between the distant, hazy China I study and the China right in front of me that so often leaves me baffled?"
In Europe and the US, Christmas is without question one of the year's biggest marketing seasons — but this year's ads look tired.
The year is almost over, and we're running 10 pieces on the most important business news of 2017 — stories that either foreshadowed a shift in an industry's landscape or were the result of one.
On December 21, 1968, NASA's Apollo program flew its second crewed mission. The spacecraft traveled through space for three days and circled the Moon for 20 hours. From lunar orbit, the three astronauts made a live television broadcast to Earth, in which one crew member said they very much hoped to find here
As for TGA itself, who ends up controlling its voice is probably a separate question worth discussing.
It once took layer after layer of approval to put up. Now it comes down overnight.
One more free lunch is gone.
The Beijing Contemporary Ballet and its founder, Han Jiang, after the eviction notice arrived.
Her greatest hope is to build a complete “history of authentic Chinese paintings” and an “art history without masters.”
From Sina Blog to Shanda Literature to the day he walked out, the one thing Hou Xiaoqiang keeps coming back to is the thing later called "IP."
"To be here celebrating the museum's opening after such a short time — the speed is astonishing," the British partner said.
**A year ago, we asked a question: [“Is this society too good to its young people?”](http://www.qdaily.com/special_columns/54.html)**
More and more buzzwords now go viral on social media.
Two of the winners are the work of Chinese students.
For heating companies squeezed by high prices and short supply, and for residents who have already torn out their coal stoves, policy adjustments after the fact offer little remedy.
The national strategy for developing traditional Chinese medicine keeps moving forward, and old questions and new ones are surfacing at the same time. Here is our thinking.
Even though the China National Art Museum, the National Library, and other major institutions stored collections here, the park was not spared demolition.
The "stores" opening offline now will be worth more in the future as "warehouses." But this round of land-grabbing offline runs on an entirely new system.
“Everything happening in Russia today is a rerun of what happened before Brazil hosted the Olympics. Before it starts, desire outruns reality. After it ends, there's a kind of resentment at having gained nothing.”
"No lesson has ever been learned from history — that is the one lesson history teaches."
This is what courier delivery looks like in Beijing right now. Forget the coming Double 12 shopping festival — plenty of courier companies and their stations don't yet know how to keep their ordinary daily operations going.
"If I go a stretch of time without controversy, I start to wonder whether something is wrong—whether I've lost myself and suddenly started following the crowd."
There are more than 45,000 Chinese restaurants in the United States, and 80% of them serve "American Chinese food."
Banbiadian: one week in the lives of several thousand airport workers.
In truth, they are not the kind of people who have "nothing to give but enthusiasm."
"Housing is a right, not a commodity." But the artists who once made it here have gradually left.
"Wishing myself luck finding a place to live"
What stands out most about Sandee Chan may be how closely she watches the society around her, and how hard she thinks about what she sees.
The media showed up, and the harshly worded notices came down.
A personal life caught in the crosswinds of national policy.
The village has a ceremonial gate at both its south and west entrances. The outward-facing side bears the village's name, "Xinjian Village"; the inward-facing side is carved with four characters: "safe passage in and out."
What did this year's most important independent magazines give the world?
In no hurry to commercialize, no hurry to please its users, not even in a hurry to fix what everyone complains about.
At the village's south and west entrances stood ceremonial archways. The side facing out bore the village name, "Xinjian Village." The side facing in was carved with four characters: "Safe Passage In and Out."
This course comes in three parts: the beginner's vocabulary book, the advanced urban dictionary, and reading comprehension.
“The role of the bystander very badly needs to be thought about and examined.”
What happened after Shanghai's new traffic rules took effect?
In 1950s New York, a handful of helicopter routes once ran like bus lines.
A house is the biggest commodity a person can buy, and it is also one of the witnesses to how an individual life changes. QDaily is running a series of reports that use housing as a thread, to see what happened in the years behind us.
She has driven a consumer market worth more than 10 billion yen, drawn attention from around the world, and stayed popular for a decade — genuinely astonishing.
Alibaba, Amazon, Walmart, JD.com — the biggest retailers are all doing online and offline at once
"When you run a WeChat official account, readers are clicks. Once you move into e-commerce, readers become ATMs" — is that really how it works?
"The biggest difference between people and robots is that people have creative thinking — they can think wild thoughts and talk nonsense. So the question is: does our environment allow wild thoughts and nonsense?"
"I'm not doing anything nobody has done before. If Noclip has shown the world anything, it's that you can talk to developers about their games and have genuinely great conversations."
Did Jeff Bezos really do what he said he would ten years ago — change the way people read?
How does a new one come about? What's the thinking behind the rice and the side dishes… and why is it so cheap?
Buy what you need, not what's cheap
The newsstand owners swept into this piece of performance art had no idea they had joined a "special farewell ceremony."
Over the past year, Alibaba Entertainment lost 12.6 billion yuan. Jack Ma says it gets 11 years in total.
Offices built around rank and efficiency are out of date. Office design now goes after something deeper — what a company actually is — and care for employees follows naturally from that.
"Sexual desire, like appetite, should be something anyone can enjoy openly. It shouldn't be obscene," says company president Koichi Matsumoto.
Working from the thought that "if we don't start looking for new drinkers now, it may already be too late," they have begun a run of experiments.
Three years, 27 billion yuan, and a missed tech boom in the US market. Now 360 wants to talk about "national interest."
"Resolve, groundwork, luck" — and a failed acquisition.
A cooperative government, a groundbreaking museum director and a brilliant architect — and, of course, the Guggenheim brand itself.
Everyone is talking about it. No one can explain it.
That line has a first half too: "The high wall deserves sympathy as well." Li Xiaofeng cares about equality, and about people. He is intense and sharp.
They have helped shape how young people spend their free time — and maybe more than that.
Liu Suli wants to hand as many people as possible an index — something that points them toward more knowledge. He tried a magazine before; now he's doing paid audio. The advantage of the latter: it actually got made.
In its second Double 11 since announcing it would stop emphasizing gross merchandise volume, Alibaba has started telling New Retail stories.
The hunt for tomorrow's customers has spread into esports.
Housing is the largest thing a person can buy, and it is one witness to how an individual's life changes. QDaily is running a series of reports that use housing as a thread, to see what happened in the years behind us.
The central idea is "the different relationships people form with their environment and with objects."
For now, it's called the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE)
If this is going to be a business, who can produce "nonfiction" steadily enough to feed it? And what does adaptation mean for this kind of writing?
Not counting the cost of the motorcade, or the effect of the road closures.
Over eight days, what happened at Jia Zhangke's Pingyao International Film Festival?
It's also the broadest and most meaningful of the big design prizes: more than "good looks," it cares about a design's value to society.
It brings new problems.
Whether people buy to collect, to decorate a home, or to give a gift, Zheng Xuan thinks this is a market worth growing — and closing the gap with ordinary demand is what she and her team have to work on.
Next to Milan's glossy luxury, Dutch Design Week is a practical affair — the students still need their work to get them a job.
Don't be afraid.
From foreign novelty to national dish: beyond the timing and the technical breakthroughs, this may be the best illustration of how commercial vitality puts down roots in Japan.
iPhone sales rebounded overall, but the average selling price didn't budge.
What, in the end, governs a person's life?
A house is the largest commodity a person can buy, and it is also a witness to the changes in an individual's life. QDaily is running a series of reports that use housing as a thread, to see what happened in the years behind us.
Massive infrastructure investment does not solve every problem.
It's the future, and it's the most expensive