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19 Nov 09
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How to Start a Chinese Company (continued from last post)
After some time … Mr. H had us huddle together with the goal of hammering out a full-fledged company with marketing strategy, business development plan, profit schedule and product line as well … all with no input... |
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18 Nov 09
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If I Build a Potemkin Village Will They Come? About two ago I got asked by a friend if I would be interested in some freelance legal work with a local entrepreneur. Naturally, I agreed to at least meet with the person and see what "freelance" legal work was all about. We three met at a ritzy... |
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12 Nov 09
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The Sookie Stackhouse Principle In the HBO TV series True Blood, what makes the main character Sookie Stackhouse so unique is that she has the ability to listen to people's thoughts. While many people would die to have a similar ability, Sookie herself sees it as more of a burden... |
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04 Nov 09
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Our Chocolate Girl (Women Qiaokeli de Nyuhair) </object> She is attractive, effervescent and has an appealing voice. But these qualities alone would not have made Lou Jing the most famous television talent show contestant in China and the subject of national debate in the world's most populous... |
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22 Oct 09
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Fresh Air, Part II (or why Posterous is a must for all Bloggers blogging in China) Last August, I blogged about the untimely demise of the China blog A Modern Lei Feng. I argued, in that post, that while China's Great Firewall was indeed a nuisance, it was still just that: a nuisance. I also argued that with a little time and effort... |
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19 Oct 09
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Who do you think you are? Li Pengyi, a delegation member and vice president of China Publishing Group Corporation, said happily that China had sold nearly 900 copyrights here. But he complained about the coverage. “We don’t feel we’ve been hospitably treated,” he said. “... |
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14 Oct 09
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The Sino-fication of African-American Culture Last weekend I met up with an old friend and he took me over to his cousin's house. His cousin is about 16 and in the throes of preparing for next year's examinations which will determine what high school he goes to, which in turn will greatly... |
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08 Oct 09
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Fresh Air I've been back in China for about 2 months and I have been dying to post to my blog but the Great China Firewall has been an awesome obstacle. Enter Posterous. I read how you can post to your blog via e-mail and so after many attempts (more on that in... |
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16 Aug 09
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Hong Lou Meng v3.0 I remember my Chinese culture teacher saying that since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, concubines, dueling siblings and emperors had been abolished. This fascinating story of a billionaire octogenarian, women and children born out of... |
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10 Aug 09
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Death by a Thousand Denials of Access This site has been run on and off since the fall of 2006, today it is basically dead. It was murdered by the Great Firewall of China, which has blocked blogspot continuously since early June. The crime committed? Originally locating this blog on... |
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10 Aug 09
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One Step Forward. Three Steps Back. Last week, China’s justice minister gave a speech saying that lawyers should above all obey the Communist Party and help foster a harmonious society. To improve discipline, the minister said, all law firms in the country would be sent party liaisons ... |
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09 Aug 09
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Church-hopping in China I was just having a conversation with a Chinese friend (on this Sunday) about churches in China. We were trying to see if there are any pictures available of the little Protestant Church in Dalian right off of Zhongshan Square when I came upon this... |
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07 Jun 09
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Run Away Brides With no eligible women in his village, Zhou Pin, 27 years old, thought he was lucky to find a pretty bride whom he met and married within a week, following the custom in rural China. Ten days later, Cai Niucuo vanished, leaving behind her clothes and... |
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04 Jun 09
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Righteous! While working as a reporter in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he shot many photographs and recorded several hours of video. It wasn’t until weeks afterwards, when he had returned to Japan, that he discovered the magnitude of what ... |
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04 Jun 09
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Do you remember? Twenty years ago, in the aftermath of the bloodshed in Beijing, when I first went into hiding, my mother had a stroke. It paralyzed one side of her face. I was 10 years in exile before my brother told me. I do not regret what we did in Beijing that year... |
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04 Jun 09
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6499 Check out this fairly “humorous” attempt by the Chinese government to impede a CNN journalist from reporting at Tian An Men on on the 20th Anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Protests. |
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02 Jun 09
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Chengdu on the Detroit General Motors has reached a preliminary agreement for the sale of its Hummer brand of large sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks to a machinery company in western China with ambitions to become a car maker, a person with knowledge of the Chinese... |
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31 May 09
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The Evolution of Protest Interesting update on the whos and hows of protesting in Modern China. (Apologies for the ad that runs before the report). |
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28 May 09
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Grand Theft: Kashgar Nine hundred families already have been moved from Kashgar’s Old City, “the best-preserved example of a traditional Islamic city to be found anywhere in central Asia,” as the architect and historian George Michell wrote in the 2008 book “Kashga... |
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26 May 09
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The internationalization of the NBA. The deal that may give a group of Chinese investors a minority stake in the Cleveland Cavaliers and its arena signals the first significant investment in a major American sports franchise by investors from China.
Interesting. Very interesting! And what... |
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20 May 09
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Extra! Extra! A week-long Guardian series offering a unique portrait of modern China, its politics, economy, society, environment and international relations through the eyes of migrant workers, business people, bloggers and officials.
An interesting reportage of... |
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19 May 09
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China Hands, v1.0 With the Saturday morning announcement of the nomination of Utah governor Jon Huntsman for appointment as the US Ambassador to China, I got to thinking about how many China Hands are in the Obama Administration. By my cursory count there are at least... |
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15 May 09
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Sport and the Chinese Athlete Watching the Houston Rockets win over the Lakers as the “Chairman” was sitting it out on the bench with an injured foot got me to thinking about sports culture in China and the pressure that its stars must have to succeed for country over... |
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11 May 09
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A Culture of Corruption Anyone, that has spent any serious time living, working or studying in China understands just how endemic corruption is. In its many forms, corruption is (sadly) an integral part of life here. You see it everywhere: from the hawkers outside the bus and... |
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04 May 09
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Chopsocky Ahh … back in the day. Incredibly … this was a song (along with Bruce Lee and the Hong Kong Phooey cartoon) that helped start my life interest in China — Do you remember the time of Kung Fu flicks every Saturday afternoon. I always liked... |
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19 Apr 09
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Clean Hands China Investment Corp. plans to expand its international investment this year, including in European countries that it had shunned because they tried to set limits on its investments, the Chinese sovereign-wealth fund’s chairman said Saturday.
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16 Apr 09
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Getting to Yes Just finished a law review article titled, Business Negotiation Between Westerners and Chinese State-Owned Enterprises1 by Catherine Xiaoying Zhang. Very interesting article that lays out, fairly succinctly, the general state of affairs of negotiations... |
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13 Apr 09
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Lai Zhongguo fan ba Britain’s restaurants have suffered a mass exodus of customers during the economic downturn, as diners have turned to cheaper takeaways and the joys of eating in. And in a related twist it has been revealed that the good old Chinese meal has finally... |
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11 Apr 09
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Sugar and Spice A bias in favor of male offspring has left China with 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than girls, creating “an imminent generation of excess men.”
I don’t think anyone has truly analyzed what that will mean for China in say 30 years bu... |
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10 Apr 09
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NBA Creates Its First Reality Show in China - Advertising Age - Global News The National Basketball Association has partnered with two Chinese companies, the China Mengniu Dairy Co. and provincial broadcaster Shandong Satellite TV, to create the basketball league’s first reality show.
I hate all reality shows, period other... |
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18 Mar 09
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China Quote of the Day The Obama administration is depending on a stable, consistent Chinese government to deliver important equities on a range of issues from the Six Party talks to climate change to energy supplies to continuing to finance U.S. debt. Yet this same regime is... |
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18 Mar 09
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Red Hot Chilli Peppers Police in south-west China are turning up the heat on accidents along some of the world’s most dangerous roads by feeding drivers raw chilli.
Eating hot peppers to stay awake. It sounds a bit counter-intuitive but will try next time I feel the Zzzz... |
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17 Mar 09
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Tinkering under the hood Not much has changed with the style and layout of this site since it began way back in the day. Lately, as we move more and more into the world of Web 2.0 (and beyond) I’ve been thinking of ways to also “upgrade” tbCh. Recently,... |
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17 Mar 09
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What kind of woman would a browser be? Funny post personifying current browsers into specific women types. It’s in Chinese but even those that don’t read Chinese will get the point. (hat tip to Aranya for the pointer)
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10 Mar 09
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2020 A Chinese Space Odyssey Chinese researchers claim they’ve confirmed the theory behind an “impossible” space drive, and are proceeding to build a demonstration version. If they’re right, this might transform the economics of satellites, open up new... |
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08 Mar 09
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Can you get Manolo’s in Beijing? Sexy Beijing is an Internet TV station run by an in-house production team. We also work with a handful of contributors in the editing room and on productions.
Not sure how this escaped my attention but I’m happy that I found it now. It’s... |
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08 Mar 09
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Bringing the Lumber Ray Chang homered and drove in two runs and China beat Taiwan 4-1 on Saturday for its first win in the World Baseball Classic.
I once went to a Chinese baseball game and it was terrible. The teams played alright but the fans were clueless to the dynamics... |
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05 Mar 09
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On the Wrong Side of World China urged the International Criminal Court Thursday to drop its arrest warrant for Sudan’s leader on war crimes, saying it won’t help stabilize the war-scarred Darfur region.
Without a doubt, China is on the wrong side of the World on this... |
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23 Feb 09
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Sign of the Times A 13-year-old boy apparently hot-wired a public bus and took it on a joyride in downtown Beijing and crashed it into a dozen vehicles in a scene witnesses likened to a blockbuster movie, state media reported Monday.
Not that this happens everyday in the... |
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22 Feb 09
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Tomorrow’s Agenda Do China’s courts only answer to the Communist Party? Or are they in fact responsive to the Chinese people? How do Chinese courts respond to increasing populist protests? What is holding back Chinese courts from becoming independent? Can China... |
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19 Feb 09
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Chinese Riddle Since Deng Xiaoping initiated economic reforms three decades ago, the party’s legitimacy has relied upon its ability to keep the economy running at breakneck pace. If China is no longer able to maintain a high growth rate or provide jobs for its ev... |
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18 Feb 09
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China Quakes While I didn’t agree with a lot of what was said (as I perceive China) I must admit that much of what was discussed was interesting and informative to all interested in China.
China’s Role in the Origins of and Response to the Global Recession |
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18 Feb 09
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Road to Predition Former Olympic champion Liu Xiang is on the verge of returning to China to resume training following Achilles’ tendon surgery two months ago in Houston.
I always thought Liu Xiang was over-hyped but I also didn’t hope that he would fallout... |
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15 Feb 09
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Our Time? It is customary for politicians eager to connect with ethnic voters to butcher a few words in Spanish, Chinese or other foreign tongues. But Ms. Gillibrand is no ordinary politician when it comes to linguistic and cultural comfort: as an Asian studies... |
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09 Feb 09
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Have we seen the birth of “Black Cool” in China? Inspired by the “color revolution” that installed Barack Obama as president of the United States, the January issue of the men’s lifestyle magazine Mangazine is all about “Black Power.”
Although, as the post points out, the... |
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03 Feb 09
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Rung Xiezi le A protester threw a shoe at Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Premier, today as he delivered a speech on the global economy at Cambridge University.
Is this becoming a trend? Will be interesting how the Chinese press will spin this (if they report it at... |
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02 Feb 09
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Feizhou ren zai Guangzhou In this issue of the magazine, Evan Osnos writes about African merchants living in China. Here, Osnos narrates an audio slide show about the economic, social, and religious life of African migrants in Guangzhou. With photographs by David... |
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14 Jan 09
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I want my ChinaTV! A group of the biggest state-controlled media organizations in China is planning to spend billions of dollars to expand overseas as part of a government effort to improve the country’s image and to create respected international news organizations.
Wi... |
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12 Jan 09
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Be Chinese or Die? If you were born today, would you rather be Chinese or Indian?
Throughout my “time” in China I don’t think I ever really considered spending the rest of my life here or if I had the choice, that I would want to be Chinese rather than... |
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12 Jan 09
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The Dragon’s Lair The Hong Kong government has agreed to preserve a former home of late martial arts legend Bruce Lee and turn it into a tourist attraction, an official said Wednesday.
For an icon of Bruce Lee’s status (a man who inspired a generation of young... |
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