Our August issue on manufacturing (”Made in China,” August 2006) has a column by Lyn Jeffery about a fast-growing Chinese website, Alibaba.com. Liz found this discussion of what guanxi is: What is guanxi? This is well worth a look. I like it because it’s simple and practical, with questions we need to keep in mind. […]

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I’ve been meaning to point out how easy it can be to misread something to do with Taiwan, the Republic of China, and the nation we call China, the People’s Republic of China (often written as P.R. China). Here’s an example of something we misread at first.
We’ve suffered this weekend, here at Berkshire Publishing and […]

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I’m rereading a novel set in Beijing this American Memorial Day holiday weekend, and came across a passage that might be one of the things that inspired us to start Guanxi: The China Letter.
“[Laura] was prepared to like the[American] novelist, but all the same she was aware of the faint irritation with which Americans nearly […]

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