2021-04-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Part of that is a hedge-fund industry with Chinese characteristics. Regulators forbid the short-selling of individual stocks. But scores of big investment managers have emerged, wi

2021-04-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He agonised about returning. In a sense, displacement was not unusual for him; it was the natural condition of a poet, the outsider, critically observing the world and distanced fr

2021-04-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Baidu’s bosses appear to recognise as much. The firm is rapidly diversifying. Last November it agreed to buy YY Live, a video-sharing and live-streaming app, for $3.6bn, in a bid

2021-04-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Baidu
百度Searching for the next big thing
搜索下一个风口China’s biggest search engine turns to personal transport to drive profits
中国最大搜索引擎转向个人出

2021-04-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

It was not homesickness he felt, as he shifted his bags and wrote his poems, producing a dozen volumes by the end. Nostalgia was lazy, futile. What he felt was that his will had be

2021-04-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In this case, to stop such an infection happening, Dr Harwood and Dr Salmela heat-treated, and so killed, the pathogens in advance. They also labelled the dead bacteria with a fluo

2021-04-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Emmanuel Faber was ousted as chairman and chief executive of Danone, 法国达能(Danone)食品公司董事长兼首席执行官费柏尔(Emmanuel Faber)被免职。following a campaign by activist invest

2021-04-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Obituary
讣告Mourid Barghouti
穆里德·巴尔古提The pain of displacement
漂泊之殇Mourid Barghouti, a Palestinian poet, died on February 14th, aged 76
巴勒斯坦诗人穆里德·巴尔古提

2021-04-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Banks, despite their conservative exterior, had a big hand in shadow financing. They got around caps on deposit rates by funnelling savings into opaque "wealth-management products"

2021-03-31 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The plaintiffs say they will appeal against the refusal of compensation. In the meantime, campaigners plan to use the lower court’s finding to bolster suits in other c

2021-03-31 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Entomology昆虫学Swarm immunity 蜂群免疫Honeybees run vaccination programmes, too 蜜蜂也有疫苗接种项目An old saw has it that there is nothing new under the sun. But it may still com

2021-03-31 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week 一周国际要闻Business 商业板块Uber announced that it would comply with a recent legal ruling in Britain which found that its 70,000 or so drivers in the country

2021-03-31 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

China's financial opening
中国的金融开放Over the great wall
跨越长城Chinese markets shake off their casino reputation. Can foreigners actually win?
中国市场摆脱“赌场”之名。

2021-03-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Asia 亚洲板块Gay marriage in Japan 日本的同性婚姻Inching forward 缓慢前进A court endorses gay marriage, but the government remains opposed 一家法院支持同性婚姻，但政府仍然反对On Va

2021-03-29 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Anti-Asian sentiment has emerged again during the pandemic. The Centre for the Study of Hate and Extremism, a think-tank, found that whereas, overall, hate crimes dropped by 7% fro

2021-03-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块Murder in Atlanta
亚特兰大谋杀案Red lights
红灯停A gruesome shooting in Atlanta leaves Asian-Americans frightened
亚特兰大发生的一起恐怖枪击案让亚裔美国人

2021-03-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

One day, however, she had seen her mother in a line of black women waiting to be hired as maids. White people in cars drove slowly past, looking them over. America’s original sin

2021-03-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The bumper Beeple sale, plus the arrival of ever more creators, means a mania that has been largely confined to crypto and techie circles could move mainstream. The global NFT mark

2021-03-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Face-masks and covid-19
口罩和新冠Helpful humidity
有用的湿度As well as filtering air, face-masks may boost the immune system
口罩除了过滤空气，还可以增强免疫系统Face-masks help

2021-03-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A new interim government in Libya was sworn in, replacing two rival administrations. Its main task is to prepare the war-torn country for elections in December. Libya descended int

2021-03-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The similarity between the “euthanasia underground” that it describes and underground abortion networks is striking. The president of Compassion & Choices, a lobby group for doct

2021-03-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week 一周国际要闻Politics 政治板块At least 16 EU countries, including Germany, France, Italy and Spain, suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, fo

2021-03-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Non-fungible tokens
非同质代币What's wrong with this picture?
这幅图咋了？Non-fungible tokens are useful, innovative—and frothy
非同质代币是有用的、创新的——但也是泡沫"Equ

2021-03-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Those included all the parts, and they were few enough, customarily assigned to black actors. While the men were con-men, hustlers or drug addicts, the women were plump maids or pr

2021-03-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺板块Book review
书评The right to die
死亡的权力Going gently
安乐死The Inevitable. By Katie Engelhart.
《不可避免》。作者：凯蒂·恩格哈特If it is humane to put