Adam Hodgkins of Exact Editions has a way with words, like so many of my British publishing friends–even those in science and technology, thankfully. (So much for the two cultures.) I asked if he could put an issue of Guanxi: The China Letter up using their magazine platform. He has done so, and made it […]

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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
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I was talking with a future Guanxi contributor this week and he mentioned that his son in Beijing had “seen the bird’s nest.” I knew exactly what he meant because I’d just finished editing our July issue about the 2008 Olympics, and wrote the feature about the media and PR challenges of the event. Here’s […]

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Our mistake about Macau is more embarrassing because we have an old colleague and friend, anthropologist Paul Hockings, is the dean of a university in Zhuhai, near Macau. Paul was a member of the editorial board for our Encyclopedia of Modern Asia and also edited a volume of the Encyclopedia of World Culture, David Levinson’s […]

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We make mistakes, and when we do the chagrin spreads far and wide at Berkshire. Some of us are compulsive about style and spelling. Others are fact-checking neatnicks. And still others (I name no names) are casual about spelling and dangling modifiers, but nonetheless care intensely about the accuracy of what we publish.
We’ll be […]

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