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China treats Copyrights like a joke
Intellectual Property Rights are a constant issue in China, and you know it is bad when People’s Daily devotes a special button on the front page to help you find the official information (Tibet gets a...
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Rolex, Getcha Rolex Here!- The problem with piracy
A few years ago I was reading a pirated copy of “The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor–and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!,” that I had picked up at the...
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Don’t Look For Efficiency in China
A lot of words come to mind when thinking about business in China: “Booming”, “Exports”, “Walmart”, “Cheap Labor”, “Outsourcing” – You’ll notice “Efficient” isn’t one of them, and this doesn’t just...
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Four Jobs That Highlight China’s Inefficiency
Yesterday we started to look very generally at China’s efficiency problems. Today I would like to introduce you to a few of the most pointless jobs in China that highlight the practices inspired by low...
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Don’t expect customer service in China
In my three years in Chinese schools, teaching 20 different groups of students, nearly every class told me that “In China, the customer is God,” which left me dumbfounded because in my experience,...
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A China Film Production Catastrophe: Part 2
In this article, Jonathan Poston finishes the story he started last time about how his kung fu film project collapsed without him ever seeing it coming… …the lead student (and there is almost always...
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The case of the effusive businessman – Succeeding in China with charm
For some reason, I’ve been brought to a number of business meetings even though I am in no way a businessman. Yet, I’ve been a part of making decisions related to hiring and forging partnerships. Today...
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