Monday, January 16, 2006
The China Mania
Out of Australia comes news that Lonely Planet has just inked a deal to publish its famed travel books in Chinese, in a nod to the booming outbound Chinese market. In England, Brighton College in Sussex has announced that it will start teaching Mandarin compulsorily, become the first college in England to do so. In New York, in the meanwhile, Chinese nannies are in extremely high demand, not for their nanny skills but for their ability to make their wards competent in spoken Chinese. According to revised estimates of Chinese GDP, China is set to become the 4th largest economy in the world this year (behind the U.S., Japan, and Germany). Expect the China mania to grow.
