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Doing Business in China: An Eastern Perspective

This clip is about numbers, and the varying ways to make sense of them in China. At one extreme the power of numbers is of obvious and unignorable importance. The opening scene of the clip, on a winter day in Shanghai, give a glimpse of the sea-of-people... ...full story at James Fallows

from James Fallows on Tue, Nov 03 2009

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