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Full name: Patti Waldmeir
Area of interest: China business; US law and society; South Africa
Journals/Organisation: Financial Times
Email: patti.waldmeir@ft.com
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Blog: http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/author/pattiwaldmeir/#axzz1tQ6v3hPm
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Career: Joined FT 1981: Johannesburg bureau chief 1989/1996; Lex columnist; Lex columnist; US legal columnist; US editor of FT
Current position/role: Shanghai correspondent
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Awards/Honours: New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, 1998 - for Anatomy of a Miracle
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- Anatomy of a Miracle: The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa OCLC35025731 , 1997
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Email: patti.waldmeir@ft.com
Website: http://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/pattiwaldmeir
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- Breathe in that dirty doublethink - Shanghai’s solution to the ‘airpocalypse’: ‘adjust’ the pollution standard - 11th December
- After the Plenum, sell pianos and dairy - The easing of the one-child policy has put the pocketbook in focus - 27th November
- Think ‘The Sound of Music’, with yaks - You might expect a bit of privacy in western China - 13th November
- Homely lessons from a Tiger Mum - A growing number of Chinese parents are shunning the gruelling school system - 16th October
- Pay your way to fix an age-old problem - In response to new laws trying to force family to spend time with their elders, a new industry is emerging - 2nd October
- China’s anti-bling consumers - In China’s smaller cities, thrift is bigger than bling and happiness is about more than handbags - 21st September
- On the tourist trail of China’s Jews - Patti Waldmeir celebrates the Jewish new year in Shanghai, to where many fled during the war - 18th September
- Mooncake is eclipsed by austerity - The bland pastry favoured by bureaucrats and crony capitalists is no longer being blinged up - 4th September
- Eat, drink, man, woman, meatballs - Ikea has figured out ‘glocal’ in a way that has eluded foreign retailers - 21st August
- When one pair of eyelids isn’t enough - Chinese graduates believe plastic surgery can help them gain jobs - 24th July
- Tears and hugs in a search for the past - More adopted Chinese children are trying to trace their biological parents - 10th July
- Ms Beauty escapes the trinket trash - Tourism in China is no solitary experience. Climb the highest mountain and you will have company - 12th June
- When blue becomes the new white - Unemployment means that Chinese graduates are taking manual jobs - 29th May
- Chinese lessons for Yahoo’s boss - Telecommuting in China blurs boundaries between home and work - 15th May
- Puffer-fish protests and Xi’s China dream - The country’s officials are discovering the power of the middle-class Nimby - 1st May
- Tears, reality TV and the Chinese dream - Xi Jinping is cooking up the China of the future - 17th April
- In China, how to end it like Beckham - The real money in Chinese sport is not on the pitch but in the ads - 3rd April
- Dripping pigs rain on a political parade - Ten thousand dead animals polluting a river damps down Chinese hopes - 21st March
- A guide to gifting in the new China - Tigers and flies are having to change their diet in line with a sudden distaste for corruption - 6th March
- 20,000 miles to the plate - Monitoring the global food supply chain presents regulators and governments with a tough test - 25th February
- China’s new rich revive eating as art - Entrepreneurs are spawning a resurgence in feasts - 20th February
- Stressed sloths in search of indolence - The Chinese are adapting quickly to the joys of doing little close to home - 9th January
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Articles: 2008
- Investor's notebook: Beijing finally acts to lift equities gloom - Dramatic steps to prop up the Chinese stock market were unveiled by Beijing on Thursday after a 70 per cent fall in stock prices since last October - 18th September 2008
- Analysis: A golden opportunity? How Chinese brands are betting on an Olympic boost - When Li Ning, the celebrated Chinese gymnast turned sportswear entrepreneur, flew around Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium to light the Olympic torch last week, he instantly called the powerful nationalism of the opening ceremony into the service of his eponymous brand - 13th August 2008
- Investor's notebook: Shanghai bets on Beijing games - The Beijing Olympics mark an important moment in history for the Chinese people. But the Games have an added significance for those millions of small investors who hope that they could also mark a turning point for the Shanghai stockmarket - 7th August 2008
- Analysis: Deals on hold? - China and India are now so integral to the global financial system that the impact of looming changes to antitrust legislation in both countries is sure to be quickly felt across the world - 28th July 2008 (with Sundeep Tucker)
- World View: Side-effects of a Swiss takeover - What lies behind Roche’s decision to offer nearly $44bn for the 44 per cent stake it does not already own in Genentech? - 21st July 2008 (with Paul Betts)
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Column name: Legal counsel
Remit/Info: US law and society - focusing predominantly on intellectual property, employment law, legal topics (of interest to business and general readers)
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Email: patti.waldmeir@ft.com
Website: FT.Com / Patti Waldmeir
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Day published: Wednesday
Regularity: Weekly
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Articles: 2008
- Judges deal second blow to Bush - The US Supreme Court upheld a ruling that barred FBI agents from searching the legislative office of congressman William Jefferson as part of a corruption investigation - 1st April 2008
- Divorce is not what it used to be - We Americans are surrounded by law: it is hard to take a step without tripping over it - 26th February 2008
- Death of self-rule on the internet - Two weeks ago, the company shocked millions of users by radically rewriting the constitution of the democratic republic of Ebay, founded in 1995 not just as an auction site but also as a social experiment in online self-government - 12th February 2008
- Inertia is the better part of valour - The US Congress seems to operate on the principle that, if you ignore problems for long enough, they will cease to exist. And in the case of US patent reform – which faces a make-or-break vote in the US Senate shortly – they could just about be right - 5th February 2008
- Internet as legal aid - Everyone who lives in a democracy has no choice but to trust their neighbours to pick their lawmakers – but their divorce lawyers? - 29th January 2008
- Trust Mum about clones - Eating is no rational matter. Any unhappy lover or overweight teen knows the truth about food: it feeds the mind much more than the body. Emotion matters more than nutrition, and fear matters more than science - 23rd January 2008
- Techno-toys in court challenge - The US Supreme Court is mediating in a dispute between a bunch of Taiwanese computer makers and a Korean rival that could affect everyone who buys a computer in America - 15th January 2008
- Tyranny at the US water cooler - Later today, millions of Americans will gather around the digital water cooler to gloat or moan about the results of last night’s dramatic New Hampshire presidential primary election - 8th January 2008
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