Monthly Archives: October 2007

Read this Wall Street Journal article, China’s Long March to the Moon, and see if you can connect the dots when you hear Dr. Andrew Morris’ presentation this Friday. After he speaks to you, then come back here and let’s … Continue reading →

Submitted By: Woon Lam (Justine) Wong Here is an interesting article front page article from the Wall Street Journal titled, “News Magnate Baits Beijing By Pairing Politics and Sex “. The media is sometimes regarded as the Fourth Estate, which … Continue reading →

Great article in Time this week by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen titled, The New Expatriates: Dazzling Growth and a Baffling Workplace Culture Greet U.S. Managers in China and India. The article is well written and self explanatory. And can you give … Continue reading →

Later this week I will be in Beijing for the CIBE Ethics Conference. Schedule and Internet access permitting, I will try to make a post or two from the conference. While in town I will also meet with some firms … Continue reading →

Submitted By: Dena Malloy Take a look at this Wall Street Journal article and this New York Times article. Recently in the news, there has been a firestorm of recalls of Chinese made goods. One of the companies that was … Continue reading →

Submitted By: Brandi Eng-Rohrbach I just read an interesting article in The Economist titled, “Missing the Barefoot Doctors”. This article was interesting to me because it highlighted the fact that China is also facing a health care crisis like the … Continue reading →

I just finished reading Randall Peerenboom’s China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest? Great book. I learned a lot. Not an easy read, and you will really need to focus as you read this book, but … Continue reading →

I came across this NY Times article and video on Grand Central Station in NYC. Does this article and video apply to the train stations of China in Beijing and Shanghai (you will likely experience one of them)? Well, in … Continue reading →

Many of you met David DeGeest on our last trip to China. Wonderful person. He is now teaching English at Zhongkai University in Guangzhou. He was a good friend to Cal Poly by setting up some firm and university visits … Continue reading →