Helen Wang over at the Chinese Dream blog is just out with an interesting post on innovation in Chinese manufacturing, or the lack thereof. The post is entitled, “Myth of China’s Manufacturing Prowess,” and its central thesis is that Americans misunderstand what drives Chinese manufacturing. I agree with her and at the end of this [...]
Rich Brubaker of All Roads Lead To China is out with an über-helpful post, entitled, A Few Rules for Succeeding in China, setting out the following eight rules to follow to succeed in China:
1. Show up with reasonable expectations. Rich notes how many come to China with “unrealistic expectations… or at least have yet [...]
I had a conversation the other day with a leading journalist on how both of us are always right about our predictions. I joked that the beauty of writing is that all we need to do show how right we are is to highlight the predictions on which we were right and to let cognitive [...]
Sometimes the strangest things get me to thinking. Today it was an article, entitled, “Court of Appeal rules on without-prejudice communication,” by London lawyer, Andrew McGregor. An incredibly rough summary of the article is that British courts will exclude settlement negotiations as evidence.
Bear with me here, as there will be a [...]
A few days ago, I did a post borrowing from and remarking upon an excellent post by Geraldine Johns-Putra on five ways doing deals in China differs from doing deals in the West. I loved her first post and she has just come out with a second, entitled, “Ten things about doing deals in [...]
Every month or so, I get an email from someone asking me for my views on their starting a business in China. These emails usually come from someone who has been in China for a year or so at a really low paying job or from someone who just recently graduated from college in [...]
Maybe five years ago, I was at an incredibly crappy China conference right here in Seattle. I knew it would be bad, but I had been given a free ticket and I needed the CLE (continuing legal education) credits. And it was. Bad that is. One of the reasons it was so [...]
In one of my college history courses, my professor was big on emphasizing how much China’s mistrust and dislike of foreigners had influenced it. This professor saw the Great Wall as THE symbol of China’s attitudes towards foreigners and he ascribed virtually everything China did to its desire to keep its distance from foreigners. [...]
David Dayton over at Silk Road International has just written a great post on China lawyering, without even knowing it or trying to do so. His post is entitled, “Reasons why a factory doesn’t want you to come see things,” and the main point is the conclusion: if a Chinese factory does not want you [...]
About four months ago, in Part I of this series, I promised we would go through our blogroll and justify and expound upon each blog, five by five. A couple of months ago, I did part V of this series. This is the sixth of this slowly running series, where I explain, in [...]