Archive for May, 2013
Starting a business in China, many companies stumble on the issue of form because they unwhittingly hire workers who respect form over substance. 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 […]
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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 trained 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 together in that […]
Continue Reading →Bad hiring by US companies in China is epidemic. Let me explain, and yes, it is not just US companies doing this. Western companies in China often know how to find out if a candidate has a strong enough mechanical engineering background. However, they do not know how to assess if the candidates are honest, […]
Continue Reading →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 that forces that have stalled further reform […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →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 in that city […]
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