Johnny L. Chan Alright, this could have happened everyday. Here in the radio program Marketplace, three of our prominent speakers at The China Speakers Bureau explain US companies what problems they might face when entering the China market.They disagree profoundly with each other. Shaun Rein of research company CMR explainsRead More →
Image via Wikipedia One of our best visited section on this website is the ‘category’ section, where we try to define what sections our speakers belong to. We get some pressure from our speakers, who can think of half a dozen other categories where they would fit in. But weRead More →
And the winner is….WikipediaCoca-Cola is spending an estimated US$ 450 million for marketing during the Beijing Olympics, up to US$90 million in sponsorship fees and about four times that figure on additional commercials, events and tickets for Olympic activities. What is the return on investment of this sum, some expertsRead More →
Shaun Rein As our operation as a speakers bureau gets into shape, a growing number of speakers have committed themselves to work with us. Later the website will give a more complete overview – although we can never put all our speakers online.Among the people who have joined already weRead More →
The sudden death of George Michael triggered off found memories in Beijing, where Michael´s band Wham! was one of the first to hit the stage after China started to open up in the 1980s. “They certainly had in impact on China, says Kaiser Kuo, now himself a rock legend in China, to Reuters.Read More →
Zhang Lijia, author of the forthcoming book on prostitution in China, Lotus: A Novel, will attend the conference China – secret stories, on January 22 in Maastricht, as the main speaker from mainland China.Read More →
Journalist Howard French, author of the forthcoming book Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Powerdiscusses with Jeff Wasserstrom China´s mindset as a geopolitical power and its problem to reinvent itself in developing a new, true Chinese story during the upcoming era of US president Donald Trump.Read More →
After the election of Donald Trump as US president and the possible derailment of Sino-US relations, other countries, like Canada, see opportunities in making trade deals. But striking a balance in trade relations is never straight forward, warns political analyst Victor Shih in the Globe&Mail.Read More →
China´s consumers have been eager purchasers of foreign products, but getting them at the right price proved to be troublesome. New startups are going to make that choice easier, predicts William Bao Bean, general partner at SOSV and managing director of Chinaccelerator, in TechNode, after closing days of presentations by startups.Read More →
The ChinaAccelerator, a tech-focused US$200m fund, picked Shanghai over Beijing, although typically most IT firms started off in Beijing. Shanghai is more international, says managing director William Bao Bean in the Economist. Read More →
Religions have become more popular in China, but the government tries now to tighten rules for religious group, writes journalist Ian Johnson, author of the upcoming book The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao in the New York Times. Rules on religion are changed for the first time in a decade.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 →