Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr China might be the second-largest consumer market in the world within five years, consumer researcher Shaun Rein tells in this interview with CBS. “Top brands need to look into the needs of consumers,”, explain Rein, not only because they have hugely different tastes fromRead More →
Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr Arthur Kroeber explains in the Financial Times why China did not use a magic trick to keep on growing, but 34 percent of extra credit: The fact becomes even less remarkable when we recognise that nominal GDP (the appropriate comparator for nominal credit growth)Read More →
Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr Kaiser Kuo, one of the top-speakers at the China Speakers Bureau, just made another benchmark. Not only is he having his own entry in Wikipedia, today he was also mentioned in the prestigious magazine Foreign Policy as one of the world’s top 100 twitterati.TwitterRead More →
Wu Yi, a powerful woman via Wikipedia The West has not yet a clue about the importance of women in China, both in society and as powerful consumers pushing the economy into the direction of double-digit growth, says Shaun Rein of the Shanghai-based China Market Research Group in Forbes. WomenRead More →
Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr Author Zhang Lijia often describes the growing freedom in China in a rather positive way, while Western media regularly take a more critical approach, the reporter of the Dutch website OneWorld.com asked her during a recent visit to Amsterdam. (Here in a translation fromRead More →
Howard French by Fantake via Flickr Former China correspondent for the New York Times Howard French notes in his former paper the way how the US deal with the racial riots in 1967 Denver, and draws some lines to the racial riots in China’s Xinjiang earlier this year. The so-calledRead More →
Image by Fantake via Flickr Shaun Rein explains, in the tracks of a recent kidnap case of an American business man by his disgruntled partners, that business in China is not so much different from the US. Although, the lack of a good-working legal systems sometimes makes business partners toRead More →
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 →