Paul French by Fantake via Flickr Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn sits down with the author Paul French to discuss his latest book on foreign correspondents in China, Through the Looking Glass: China’s Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao. Why did he stop in 1950, is one of the obvious questions.Read More →
Celebrity author Zhang Lijia joined recently in Perth, Australia a BBC-show and explained how her life and change had changed. “Life is much freer now.”Read More →
Image by Fantake via Flickr Celebrity author Zhang Lijia is mostly based in Beijing, but this year she has a busy travelling schedule. After a trip to Switzerland (June 23-July 13), she will be visiting also the Netherlands, Belgium and London (19-25 July). In September, October and November she will beRead More →
Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr How do I get into the picture? Every month after publishing our monthly top-10 most-sought speakers some of the few hundred who did not make it to the list wonder themselves what they can do to improve their ranking. There is only one adviceRead More →
Image via Wikipedia Seventy percent of the M&A deals end up badly for the shareholders, research from his Shanghai company CMR group has shown, writes Shaun Rein today in Forbes. Too often companies put together matches that look great on paper but are fraught with management and structural problems thatRead More →
William Bao Bean by Fantake via Flickr The global music industry hopes to tap into the revenue streams in Asia, writes the Hollywood Reporter, But VC William Bao Bean does not give them a lot of hope to make a buck in China as the country has no tradition ofRead More →
Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr The famous Chinese journalist and author Zhang Lijia will visit Belgium and the Netherlands (especially Amsterdam) for a short visit. Her groundbreaking book ““Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China has just appeared in Dutch. She will be in Amsterdam from 14Read More →
Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr Only by loosening the ties for private companies, who are in an disadvantaged position compared to state-owned enterprises, China can keep an economic growth of annually 8 percent, Arthur Kroeber explains in The Telegraph from the UK. Faced with a decline in export demandRead More →
Image via Wikipedia When a Chinese company who never build a car bought the Hummer from GM, one of the largest problems of the Detroit car giant, many predicted huge problems. But Shaun Rein tells Forbes he sees also some positive sides on the deal. The assumption is that theRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Shanghai might be better prepared to deal with its Worldexpo2010 compared to what happened with the Beijing Olympics, although Shaun Rein at CNBC is not without worries.The city is pumping the equivalent of 45 billion US dollar into the city, but unlike Beijing, ShanghaiRead More →
Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr While China and the US are edging towards each other, the emergences of a new world order, excluding some of the old and upcoming new forces, is a distant prospect at best, writes Arthur Kroeber in todays Financial Times. It is perfectly accurate toRead More →
Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr Just days ahead of June 4, celebrity author Zhang Lijia remembers in the New Work Times her May-days in 1989 when she helped to organize demonstraties, like they took place all over China, adding to the concerns of the leadership in Beijing.Despite the setbacksRead More →