Image by Fantake via Flickr The China Speakers Bureau is hosting on Thursday 14 May two sessions with CIC’s founder Sam Flemming on social networks in China, brand, consumers and how they interact with technology of the now-famous start-up CoverItLive.com. At the first announcement of this Global China Chat youRead More →

Charles McElwee by Fantake via Flickr The efforts by China’s environmental authorities to ban the popular plastic bags from their supermarkets has been met with a lot of skepticism. But according to environmental lawyer Charles McElwee the introduction of the ban is now getting into phase 3 and really getting serious.Read More →

Victor Shih  by Fantake via Flickr While China’s bean counters try to stress positive figures in its economic development, assistant-professor Victor Shih sees very troublesome signals as prices for industrial goods fall by huge percentages over the first three months of 2009. From his weblog: I strongly suggest readers takeRead More →

Image by Fantake via Flickr Celebrity author Zhang Lijia continues her road to world fame, as the 21th Century edition of Jung Chang, and will visit France and the Netherlands this autumn, she tells the China Beat. Her upbeat personal account of China’s recent history continues to gather pace, afterRead More →

Image by Fantake via Flickr As China’s exports continues to drop, its exports industry turn to their home markets, as desperate move that might spell trouble, says retail analyst Paul French to Reuters. From producers of famous Western brands, they now try to sell their own brands and lines ofRead More →

Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr Celebrity author Zhang Lijia – one of the contributors to the upcoming book “A Changing China” by the China Speakers Bureau  – relives the 1980s in an interview with The Star. “I loved the 1980s,” she adds. “There was so much idealism. “Then, people wereRead More →

Image by Fantake via Flickr Our speaker Victor Shih has been digging up an internal report by China’s central bank the People’s Bank of China (PBOC): most of the stimulus package goes to state-owned construction companies. For the time being Shih sticks to his guns: it is very doubtful China’sRead More →

Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr While some might see some positive economic signs in China, assistant-professor Victor Shih sticks to his gun and does not see a real recovery. In his weblog he points at all those important signals that are still not well and not encouraged by theRead More →

William Bao Bean by Fantake via Flickr The China Speakers Bureau April 2009 newsletter has just hit the road and is available here to download. We announce here the upcoming Global China Chat with Sam Flemming on social networks, consumers and brands. The latest news from our speakers, the most-soughtRead More →

Sam Flemming by Fantake via Flickr On May 14 the China Speakers Bureau will hold its next Global China Chat, this time with Sam Flemming , the managing director of CIC, the leading firm for checking out online trends, the internet in China. Questions to be answers: How is the ChineseRead More →

Image by Fantake via Flickr Shaun Rein of CMR in Shanghai looks ahead at the future of international car makers as the Shanghai auto show opens for business today.At CNBC he explains why the top end of the market, Mercedes and BMW is still growing by 30-50 percent, providing China’sRead More →