8th August, 2008 |
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Karen Christensen
email:karen [at] berkshirepublishing.com
skype:karen_christensen
I’m racing around Beijing and have lots to report, but in preparation for this afternoon’s meeting with Nick Young at China Development Brief I’m just going to recommend their website. I’ve only begun to delve into it, but it’s one of the few sites that I’ve come across that really speaks to the complex range […]
Posted: August 31st, 2006 under Recommended reading.
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I want to learn how to use the Metro, which should make getting around big, crowded, polluted Beijing a lot easier, and I couldn’t ask for more than this site provides, from instructions to photos, a recording of the station announcements and even a clip with the Chinese for “Where’s the nearest subway station?” All […]
Posted: August 28th, 2006 under Travel.
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Guanxi: The China Letter now includes an introduction to Chinese proverbs relevant to the issue’s theme in a regular feature written by Beijing-based journalist Frank (Anhui) YU. We include this because learning proverbs is an ideal way to start to understand Chinese culture and connect with Chinese colleagues. In the forthcoming September issue on “Social […]
Posted: August 26th, 2006 under Guanxi: viewpoints.
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Fascinating feature on the front page of the Wall Street Journal today, about the significance of ping-pong star Chen Qi’s being sent to the countryside to learn the value of hard work, after losing a televised match and his temper, too. A parallel is drawn, naturally, with the Cultural Revolution and the “re-education” of intellectuals […]
Posted: August 18th, 2006 under Western press on China.
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Our friend and colleague Jonathan Qiang Li has written instructions for setting up Chinese keyboardinginstructions for setting up Chinese keyboarding in Windows. I have Chinese characters on my PC but haven’t done adding the keyboarding yet. I have seen Tom using it though and it is amazing: a small box appears into which he types […]
Posted: August 18th, 2006 under Chinese language.
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When we were planning the launch of GUANXI: THE CHINA LETTER, Tim Ambler at the London Business School, now a GUANXI adviser board member, suggested that we run a feature that would choose the most misleading or inaccurate Western article on China each month and explain what was wrong with the reporting. Today’s post is […]
Posted: August 9th, 2006 under Western press on China.
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It’s funny and small-worldish to be browsing online, come across an interesting article like this, “Lily Learns Mandarin,” about a child adopted from China, and then realize that the author, Julie Michaels, is a freelance journalist who works down the hall from us.
Even stranger–but consistent with guanxi–is that Julie’s college roommate is also friends with […]
Posted: August 1st, 2006 under Chinese language.
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