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The most recent issue of Foreign Policy Magazine has a story entitled, the "Global Cities Index," in setting out the 60 cities "that shape our lives the most." Beijing (#12), Shanghai (#20), Guangz...

EastSouthWestNorth. Is any English language China blog more influential? I don't think so.
Roland Song of ESWN was to give a speech at CNBloggercon, but was unable to attend due to a family emerge...

David Dayton of Silk Road International has a fascinating, though disquieting post, entitled, "Another Trip to the Healthy Department." Dayton's father was a doctor and Dayton tells us (in vivid de...

There are four kinds of people:
1. Those who truly love the Financial Times and the Economist Magazine.
2. Those who claim to love the Financial Times and the Economist Magazine, but only because ...

Elliot Ng over at CnReviews just came out with a very thoughtful post analyzing China's economy. The post is entitled, "Global financial crisis will hurt China much more than the US," and it says C...

I am always saying that my law firm's clients (virtually all of whom are SMEs doing business internationally) are not leaving China because of its new Labor Contract Law, not leaving China because ...

A good friend of mine who is an executive at a large American Bank that owns a good-sized chunk of a large China bank, sent me this report on China's economy from the World Bank. He said that "his"...

Interesting article by James Hudson over at China Success Stories. Article is entitled, "Want Committed Employees? Learn to Trust Them." Its thesis is that if you want your Chinese employee to work...

In his post, "The Bar is Passing People By," A Modern Lei Feng sets out the following pass rates for China's bar exam:
2002 - 8%，
2003 - 11%
2004 - 11%
2005 - 14%
2006 - 15%
2007 - 22%
He goes on t...

I knew it.
I knew China's new land reform laws making leasing of farmland easier and potentially more profitable would lead to opportunities relating to agriculture.
But it took David Wolf over a...