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I’ve been driving for 25 years now—since I was 14 actually. I started out with big farm trucks, bailers, swathers, tractors and a 40 year-old IHC pick-up truck that you had to prime with a choke to start. I’ve driven in snow storms on canyon roads, ice storms, in sand, through fields, through herds of [...]
I spent part of last weekend helping translate for a friend who was in the emergency room of a local hospital. Probably more scary to me than being sick in China is being taken to a hospital in China. My father was a doctor in a small town (the only OBGYN in a couple of [...]
Outliers, is the latest thought provoking book from Malcolm Gladwell. I don’t typically review books that I read that are not specifically about business in Asia here. And this book has, as it’s thesis, nothing to do with China. But there are a couple of really impressive ideas presented so clearly that you have apply [...]
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traditional Chinese mask.
Old Beijing, Splendid China, Shenzhen
The pearl of wisdom in the title came from my Chinese neighbor in a conversation he and his wife had with my wife about a week ago. A Chinese man of about 65 years of age, he is a multi millionaire who made his money importing machinery from the US and UE into China over the last 20 years. He said, when asked about his experience, that the single most important lesson that he learned in int
Since I’ve been at factories and solving project issues all week, I’ve not had time to write a “real” blog–so here is another of my (usually) tri-weekly news links list. Enjoy.
1. China on President Elect Obama
This book, The Writing On the Wall, by Will Hutton, is just great. It’s only flaw is that it’s at least 100 pages too long—
First, the irony of people who bought pirated software complaining about the fact that it still works but is not as pretty anymore just kills me. If I buy DVD’s on the street, I don’t complain that they don’t work, I kiss my 5RMB goodbye and wait a couple of months till it comes out on iTunes. But everyone online in China is
Pierre Xiao Lu’s look into the luxury market in China is probably the best book on the topic you can buy.
Like Junior Soprano claims, “things like this come in 3’s.” Maybe it’s true.
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