Financial leasing companies, unless they are supported by one of the banks, are increasingly running into problems, as they lose access to funding, writes financial expert Sara Hsu in The Diplomat. ” Ordinary financial leasing companies in particular are feeling the funding pinch.”Read More →
Officially gender discrimination is banned, but until recently that law was not enforced. That is changing now women take the offenders to court, and get their legal rights, writes author Zhang Lijia on her weblog. She discusses the cases of Huang Rong and Cao Ju.Read More →
Two key criteria are key for our way of working. First, speakers need to be China experts. The China Speakers Bureau is a global agency organizing speakers who have a role in the China debate. Second, we need a solid digital footprint of speakers, illustrating their contributions to that debate. Quotes in mainstream media, weblogs, video´s and in general the ability to move the China debate.Read More →
Journalist Howard French documented in his much praise Shanghai photographs a fast changing society. Evan Osnos of the New Yorker interviewed French on his “Disappearing Shanghai: Photographs and Poems of an Intimate Way of Life”.Read More →
Our second installment on the top-5 most-read stories for November 2011 show certainly the power of search engines in retrieving stories. Some of the recent stories by Wendell Minnick and Shaun Rein do pretty well, but we see also much interest in stories that are older.Read More →
Our speakers regularly publish books. Here you find an overview of the most recent publications on China. In some cases, we might be able to help to negotiate a discount on the official price, if you retain a speaker, or need a larger number of books. Interested? Get in touch.Read More →
Brasschaat, June 3, 2010 Dear friends, With pride I can announce a new expansion of the CBS. Earlier this year we published our first book, A Changing China, available worldwide through Amazon. The process involved our entire editing staff, and outside consulting from US publishing experts, as well as the developmentRead More →
Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr In A Changing China, the recently released book by the China Speakers Bureau, celebrity author Zhang Lijia recalls how she, as a worker in a missile factory in Nanjing, organized a demonstration to support the students in Beijing: It’s been 20 years. Yet IRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Just like Japan in the 1980s China is now going overseas in a major shopping spree to spend a part of its USD two trillion in foreign reserves. But that is where the similarities stop, says Shaun Rein in a commentary on NPR. WhileRead More →
Xu Ping We already heard the stories about Taiwanese factory owners in Guangdong who left their close-to bankrupt enterprises over the wall that was designed to keep people out. But for larger companies like Foxconn such a fast departure is not that easy.Foxconn has been in the middle of quiteRead More →
Mark Schaub For time reasons we have delayed the planned China Speakers Bureau podcast with Shanghai-based lawyer and author Mark Schaub on the labor contract law till next week. But we are right away discussing another no less equally important subject: Chinese investments abroad.When you look at the news onRead More →
Mark Schaub, this month’s fastest mover Surprising changes in this month “most-sought speaker”, compared to the scores in September. Some of our leading speakers have suddenly dropped off the list and we see a range of relative new-comers in our top-10.One of the reasons for that change could be thatRead More →