One thing we’ll be doing on the new GuanxiOnline (also known as GO China) is recommend books and other resources, and ask visitors to comment on and add new material. Here are a few recommendations sent by a colleague in New York who travels to China frequently:

Asian Mind Games, probably the best book I have […]

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Talk about global: I heard about this exhibition when I visited GAPP, the General Administration of Press and Publications, in Beijing in April, and received an invitation a few days ago via Al Furst, of Asia Projects, whom I met in Amsterdam last September.
It’s a happy coincidence that the exhibit will be at Harvard, in […]

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I was buying fish in Guido’s, the Great Barrington equivalent of Balducci’s (or, for a London comparison, hm–Waitrose? Borough Market?), and trying to tune out the whiny tones of the summer crowd. But I couldn’t help listening to one conversation between the fishmonger and a woman who wanted to know where a particular fish came […]

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The China Town Hall discussion, a live video webcast seen in 30 cities across the United States on 31 May, was made available online that very night. It’s available free at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations website, and is well worth viewing. And, hey, the system is easy to use! A quick login and […]

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I love it when a Google search takes me to a colleague’s writing. Frank Mulligan’s blog came up on the first page of a search on “aggregated china data.” Frank has a wonderful piece, “Winning the War for Talent in China,” coming out soon in Guanxi. Here’s a quick preview:

Step 4. Hire for Attitude
Everyone has […]

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