When the Chinese term first emerged in popular culture in China a few years ago, the initial application was to Chinese students and young people trapped in highly competitive schools and jobs that ...

Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. You know the China story. Population? Huge. Economy? Very huge. Trade surpluses? Really huge. Maybe too huge. Even ...

Prolonged economic challenges tend to generate their own terminology. When the US struggled with low growth and below-target inflation in the years after the 2008 crisis, the oft-used phrase was ...

Continued involution would undermine China's ambition to move up the value chain via 'new productive forces' In economic policy documents, Beijing's leadership used the term "involution", neijuan in ...

China is gripped by an insidious problem that is eroding its economy: It is trapped in a cycle of competition so fierce that it is destroying profits, driving a brutal rat race among workers and ...

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 ...