Starting in the 1980s they went West to study. Now mainland patriots are heading back in droves. China will never be the same. Fortune at China's fingertips SouthChina Morning Post Rock band Tang Dynasty was serenading a crowd of Beijing trendies, tucking into free drinks and a buffet at a party hosted by one of China's hottest Internet entrepreneurs. There is no stereotypical mainland lawyer.
China has no lawyer jokes, no celebrity attorneys, no courtroom dramas on television.
SouthChina Morning Post Critics call it a colossal waste of public money. Its supporters say it will be a global landmark and do for Beijing what the Opera House did for Sydney. For thousands of years, Deqin has been an isolated town. Even the dairy cows on Joan Hinton's and Erwin Engst's state-owned farm outside Beijing have lost their revolutionary purity. Laser eye surgery in Beijing Beijing Scene Repairing vision defects with laser surgery is becoming increasingly common A flight of fancy for Beijing SouthChina Morning Post Beijing's new airport terminal now seems a miracle of modern design, all futuristic steel and carpets.