Image by Dharbigt Mærsk via Flickr Just before we had into August, we finished our China Speakers Bureau Newsletter for July, also available here. Today with a focus on intercultural dilemma’s when looking for a speaker and some highlights from our speakers over the past months. Very advisable: Victor ShihRead More →
Zhu Rongji via Wikipedia China’s efforts to stop irresponsible local lending has changed into an ‘all out’ credit line for local governments, writes Victor Shih, assistant professor in political science, in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal. Even compared to the financial rescue offered at the end ofRead More →
The China Speakers Bureau will start soon a pilot with Parliament Speakers, on of the more established speaker agencies in the UK. We see the demand for our speakers mostly coming from outside China, not surprisingly considering the attention China is getting worldwide. To support that trend, the China SpeakersRead More →
Chris Anderson via CrunchBase Piracy is the theme of one chapter in an upcoming book by Chris “Long Tail” Anderson and not surprisingly, China is at the core of the chapter. One of our celebrity speakers, Shaun Rein of the China Market Research Group (CMR) in Shanghai tells Chris AndersonRead More →
Zhang Lijia at Chateau deLavigny by Fantake via Flickr Zhang Lijia, the author of “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China, is the highest runner up in the most-sought list of July 2009, is the biggest mover of the month, although she moved only from the thirdRead More →
Image by Fantake via Flickr Author Zhang Lijia spoke Friday 17 July in Amsterdam on her autobiography “Socialism is Great”. Her book plays in the 1980s as she is working in a factory for long-distance missiles in Nanjing and ends with the aftermath of the demonstrations she helped to organizeRead More →
Image via Wikipedia Consumer confidence in China has gone up, after a small dip in April, says Shaun Rein, commenting on the rather weak figures from Yum, the parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, were presented, in a comment for Reuters.The future looks bright, despite the reportedRead More →
Howard French by Fantake via Flickr Former Shanghai bureau chief Howard French not only has a distuighisted career as a foreign correspondent in China, Japan and Africa for the New York Times, he is also an accomplished photographer. He documented the old Shanghai, the Shanghai that is now disappearing fastRead More →
Image via Wikipedia For China Unicom, currently China’s second-largest mobile phone provider, an expected deal to distribute Apple‘s iPhone in the world’s mist connected nation might be a hit, Shaun Rein does expect major bears on the way for iPod, he tells Brand Republic Asia. Apple will have to makeRead More →
Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr Many of the larger Chinese companies are state-owned, says analyst Arthur Kroeber in a comment to Australian media, making passing on their information an infringement of state secrets. Four employees of the Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto got arrested by Shanghai State Security andRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Google’s growth in China is not likely to be hurt by the recent porn brawl it had with China’s internet authorities, says analyst Shaun Rein in PC World. The US search engine got itself into hot water as it was accused of facilitating searches forRead More →
Zhang Lijia by \!/_PeacePlusOne via Flickr Zhang Lijia, the author of the autobiography “Socialism Is Great!”, will be speaking at a meeting in Amsterdam on Friday 17 July at the meeting room of On File, at the Singel 46 in Amsterda, very close to the Central Station. The meeting startsRead More →