{"id":12514,"date":"2015-05-12T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12514"},"modified":"2015-05-12T01:31:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T05:31:59","slug":"rent-a-foreigner-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/rent-a-foreigner-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent A Foreigner In China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/051215_0529_RentAForeig1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a documentary David Borenstein looked at the foreigner renting industry in China:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>China is in the midst of a construction boom that has left multiple properties in search of a buyer.<\/li>\n<li>One way that realtors can boost demand is by renting foreigners.<\/li>\n<li>Firms provide menus where customers can select skin colours and nationalities.<\/li>\n<li>By having such faces present when interested buyers come around to visit, developers can make an area seem more globalized than it really is.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the purchased foreigners will play the role of low level VIPs to further enhance property values.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch the full documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/28\/opinion\/rent-a-foreigner-in-china.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/28\/opinion\/rent-a-foreigner-in-china.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=1\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a documentary David Borenstein looked at the foreigner renting industry in China: China is in the midst of a construction boom that has left multiple properties in search of a buyer. One way that realtors can boost demand is by renting foreigners. Firms provide menus where customers can select skin colours and nationalities. By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/051215_0529_RentAForeig1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12517,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12514\/revisions\/12517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}