Since China allowed Japanese TV makers to sell in China in the 80′s, Chinese people have been gobbling up foreign brands. They know they have higher quality and are safer too. In the 90′s, you had to localize production in China as Made in America was too expensive. Now the sense of th...
A new report shows more clearly the path to 2022 with China. By 2022 China’s middle class is expected to number 630 million, an increase from 230 million in 2012. Chinese people who are middle class by American standards already number 80 million, so that will go to at least 240 million. It ...
China Law Blog has put up a guest post by John Yang, a Chinese marketer in the US. He writes from a Chinese point of view at the bottom of the post some of which I have pasted here below: Materialism. The opening up and reforming brought in the free market but also materialism and money worship. [...
Here in China, when I get on an elevator with a mother and her child, the mother will often cue the child to call me Shu Shu which is respectful toward an adult male in China. What has always struck me about this is that I have never seen a Chinese mother coach the child’s [...]...
Paul Wang is my General Manager and one day we were talking about business culture and problems therein. Paul said, “Jim, Chinese people are all politicians.” I was shocked by what he said. I felt there was often a lack of transparency in Chinese people, but I never had put that togeth...
Troubled Western companies in China often know how to find out if a candidate has a strong enough mechanical engineering background, but they do not know how to assess if they are diligent, cooperative, passionate or will have the same attitude when they start as they had in the interview. They the...
In 1998, China pulled the plugs on lots of State Owned Enterprises (SOE’s) and let them die. That was a painful but necessary adjustment for China. It brought great growth. Now China Economic Review has an article up on potential for further reform in the State Sector. The Article notes ...
China Law Blog noted that China has brought down poverty impressively over the last 30 years. I worked as an English teacher for a brief time in 1991 when I first lived in China. I taught at the Anhui Institte of Finance and Economics in Bengbu. My teaching partner and I were the only foreigners ...
American Magazine has some goood thought on running your business and one goes double for China. See their article called Five Things I Did That Caused My Business to Fail. Their thoughts are aimed at a business owner, but even if you are a GM for a US company here in China, it is a [...]...
Today I saw a report on how China has muscled out the Philippines for ownership of a pile of rocks in the South China Sea. See report here. China has a lot of behaviors to dislike. Last year, I wrote a blog comparing 1912 USA to 2012 China. It is notable that the comparable historical period [......
