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Ban Shein, China’s Fast-Fashion Company

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Ban Shein, China’s Fast-Fashion Company
A worker makes clothes at a garment factory that supplies Shein, a cross-border fast fashion e-commerce company in Guangzhou, in China's southern Guangdong Province, on July 18, 2022. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images
Anders Corr
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Shein, China’s fast-fashion company, moved its headquarters from Nanjing to Singapore last year, apparently in an attempt to globalize and escape the bad reputation of its parent country. Yet most of its business operations, including almost all its factories and warehouses, remain in China.

Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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