400 million customers (back then)

As many of you know, Jim McGregor’s book, “One Billion Customers, Lessons From the Front Lines of Doing Business in China, ” is one of the best `China books’ of the past couple of years. Jim’s a former reporter–WSJ Bureau Chief in Beijing–who went on to bigger and better things. His book paid implicit homage [...]

Get Ready for Chinese FDI…

Two years ago the U.S. decided it didn’t like the idea of CNOOC, the oil company, buying L.A. based UNOCAL. What ARE the CHinese going to be allowed to buy…in the U.S. and the rest of the world? It’s a question the world better start asking, as this OP-ED piece in the Wall Street Journal [...]

A Marathon of Missable TV

We’ve mentioned a few Chinese New Year pastimes, like visiting family, setting off fireworks, battering your way through crowds, but have yet to touch on a granddaddy, the Spring Festival program on China Central Television. It’s a four-hour Busby Berkeley extravaganza of song, dance and comedy routines. Since its start in the ’80s it became [...]