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by Greg Cruey on February 15, 2010
I came across an excellent example of marketing a product in China. The story interests me both as a a China geek and an educator. The product involved is virtual world software designed help Chine...
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by Greg Cruey on December 24, 2009
The China Law Blog had a couple of good pieces (here and here) early this month on starting a Wholly Foreign Owned Entity (WFOE - a business) in China. The two pieces go into substantial detail abo...
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by Greg Cruey on November 27, 2009
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BusinessWeek had a piece earlier this month on the alternative energy market in China and how attractive it is at the moment for startup enterprises. As Chinese cities have become inc...
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by Greg Cruey on January 7, 2009
From a business perspective, the main barrier to success in China is culture. Cultural difference between a European, Australian or American businessman and his Chinese partner can lead to problems in...
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by Greg Cruey on April 22, 2008
I came across a blog post by James McMullen back on February 16: China Is a Budding Business' Best Friend. I saved it. I intended to comment here on it, but I just never got around to it. Then a c...
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by Greg Cruey on February 12, 2008
China's economy is hot. And money in China is changing hands at an incredible pace. That leads many Western business people to assume that the average family in China has lots of disposable income...
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by Greg Cruey on January 23, 2008
It's easy to say or do something "wrong" when you're in an unfamiliar culture.
I remember one of my first meals in an Australian home. As a male raised in the southern US, I though...
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by Greg Cruey on December 2, 2007
I found an anonymous blogger recently who reckons that China is a joint venture playground. Do you agree with him?
I think we're all waiting to see right now whether China's new labor law wil...
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by Greg Cruey on October 30, 2007
I came across a blog by Anima a couple of days ago and I felt like I just had to mention it - for two reasons.
First, the blog is about an excellent idea. anima's concept of bilingual business ...
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by Greg Cruey on October 16, 2007
Dan over at the China Law Blog looked at a list last week of the Top Ten China Business Survival Tips.
I loved the post. I'm like Dan: lists are hard to resist because they tend to reduce informa...
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by Greg Cruey on October 4, 2007
The nice people over at the China Law Blog brought this to my attention today: the Roundtable Discussion on Intellectual Property Rights in China starts on October 23rd in Beijing.
The event is at th...
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by Greg Cruey on September 25, 2007
China Success Stories is fast becoming one of my favorite blogs. Their recent article on due diligence is an excellent examination of the complicated issues surrounding the simple task of not getting ...
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by Greg Cruey on September 20, 2007
Earlier this month the China Law Blog took a look at the ongoing dispute between the Chinese company Wahaha and the French firm Danone. The dispute has become bitter, and it is a classic example of so...
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by james on August 21, 2006
Shenzhen based download accelerating software provider Thunder Networking president Zou Shenglong announced that more than 75 million people have installed Thunder's software and that the company ...
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by james on August 3, 2006
Bruno Wu, New Media entrepreneur, knows a great deal about re-education. The 39 year old Wu from an elite Shanghai family whose grandmother was killed by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, and...
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by james on March 21, 2006
Bokee established in 2002 has earned its bragging rights as the leader in China's expanding blog market with more than 2 million registered bloggers. Today, I posted a comment received electronica...
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by james on March 21, 2006
The VC drive to fund Chinese tech start-ups shows no signs of a slow down this first quarter of 2006. Red Herring shouts that it continues at a "breakneck pace." Naturally, the growth of the...
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by james on February 9, 2006
More and more policy foreign policy pundits are attempting to answer the pressing China question. What is the New China and is the Chinese economic miracle, especially the rush of Chinese entrepreneur...
