If you lived in Beijing in 2008, when that city hosted the Olympic Summer Games, the tenor of this year’s Winter Games carries a distinct sense of foreboding. Fourteen years ago, during the lead-up to ...

Sexbots on every sofa and Glastonbury turned into Guantánamo: the Fringe has some pretty dark thoughts about things to come, writes Paul Arendt ...

The last few centuries have seen tremendous growth in the global economy as we’ve evolved from an agriculture-based society to today’s digital society. We’ve moved from being nomads and hunters to ...

The word “involution”, or neijuan – referring to excessive competition in social and economic life – has become a common slang term in China. Students, workers and even business leaders have been ...

If you are feeling dispirited at work or burned out by the general pressure of life, there is a perfect word for you: "involution." The Mandarin Chinese word for "involution" — neijuan — is now a ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a senior adjunct researcher at the Rand Corporation’s China Research Center and senior associate ...