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There Are Chinese, Then There Are Chinese

By on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment

For many westerners and western companies, it’s hard to figure out why some Chinese have gone to the US for their graduate degrees, worked at name technology companies such as Intel and Microsoft, then come back to China, their homeland, start their own businesses, and fall flat on their faces. How is this possible? They [...]

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Is It Possible For A Western-Managed Business To Succeed In China?

By on Friday, February 8th, 2008 | 2 Comments

China’s increasingly important global role means that more and more businesses are coming to China. While there has been a significant presence among multinationals for nearly 30 years, now companies are coming in at earlier stages. Now some startups are even choosing to start in China instead of Silicon Valley. This trend has been encouraged [...]

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Report: Cory Doctorow of Boingboing Speaks in Beijing

By on Thursday, September 13th, 2007 | 4 Comments

Cory Doctorow, open-source advocate and publisher of the Boingboing blog, spoke in Beijing yesterday on Sept. 12. The Boingboing blog was one of the first blogs on the Internet, and now reportedly has more than 600K subscribers. The venue for the event was the Beijing Bookworm bookclub/bookstore in Sanlitun. Many members of Beijing’s English-blogging digerati [...]

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BarCamp Beijing 2007 Summary

By on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 | 4 Comments

Yesterday I participated in Barcamp Beijing 2007, which was held at the France Telecom Research and Development Building in Haidian district in Beijing. There were more than 100 participants with some 24 sessions held in three different languages. It is hard to describe the firehose of information from Barcamp, but I will try to offer [...]

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Why Most US Market Entries Fail in China

By on Friday, August 17th, 2007 | 12 Comments

The consulting industry in China is flourishing. After all, it is the largest potential single market in the world, and everyone is flocking to it. New companies need information and advice about how to tackle the unique challenges of this market. For any MBA who is fluent in Chinese, or who has grown up in [...]

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Chinese Language Requirements, the HSK, and Senior Positions in China

By on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 | 12 Comments

Until very recently, Chinese language qualifications were not considered a deal-breaker for senior positions in China. For the most part, US and European employers assumed that a person of Chinese extraction had some degree of fluency in Chinese, and could communicate with other Chinese in China. This all changed when Goldman Sach’s proposed appointment for [...]

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