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Brian Cronin's China Blog: March 2006
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Brian Cronin's China Blog. Tuesday, March 14, 2006. The World Is Flat- Book Review. The World is Flat. From start to finish, Friedman’s strong support of these changes was obsessive. The flattening of the world makes possible complex supply chains based on value-added services, with products in all industries being increasingly leveraged through competitive commoditization and the possibility of using labor and services in emerging markets like India and China . On the other hand,. I realize this sounds ...
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American Professor: China Education Consultant, Business Consultant, China PR, Social Media, SEO
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American Professor and King of Nothing. Digital Chinese Take Out for the Expat's Soul. Archive for the 'Expats' Category. On Apr 10th 2011. Lazy Panda: Lessons in Cultural Localization. I am not sure I have ever been happier to arrive home and turn on the news. Surely even CCTV would tell me that the Japanese earthquake had spun the world off its axis and people were more disoriented than usual. No man should aspire to be cuddly like a panda. One response so far. On Jan 30th 2011. I am a believer in sync...
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Shenzhen Undercover: Soft Power and the Future of China's World PR
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A Chinese-American's journey to understand China: cultural insights, Johnny Walker, politicking and toys . all while attempting to blend into the background. Tuesday, March 01, 2011. Soft Power and the Future of China's World PR. During the Hu Jintao summit in the US about a month ago, I was lucky enough to see firsthand the 60-second “Pro China” advertisement broadcasted both in NYC’s Times Square and the Chinatown area in Washington DC. China has had a PR problem for some time now. I first noticed ...
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Shenzhen Undercover: 01/01/2009 - 02/01/2009
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A Chinese-American's journey to understand China: cultural insights, Johnny Walker, politicking and toys . all while attempting to blend into the background. Friday, January 30, 2009. Cheerleading in China. Yay! Earliest forms of cheerleading in China were glorified jumping around of cute girls in relatively skimpy outfits during timeouts at Chinese Basketball Association (CBA - the Chinese national basketball league) games. These performances were often elementary and actually quite embarrassing to ...
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Shenzhen Undercover: Inside the toy recalls: Mattel's sins
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A Chinese-American's journey to understand China: cultural insights, Johnny Walker, politicking and toys . all while attempting to blend into the background. Wednesday, August 29, 2007. Inside the toy recalls: Mattel's sins. It's been a few weeks since the Mattel toy recalls first started. Since then millions of toys have been taken off the shelves all over the world, a Chinese factory owner hung himself and the "Made in China" name is being dragged through the dirt in the US media. In essance, there wer...
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Shenzhen Undercover: Chinese Small Business Taxation
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A Chinese-American's journey to understand China: cultural insights, Johnny Walker, politicking and toys . all while attempting to blend into the background. Saturday, January 20, 2007. Chinese Small Business Taxation. For those of you who haven’t lived in the UWS of Manhattan or haven’t gone to school at. You probably don't know that much about Koronet's pizza. A definite neighborhood hangout if there ever was one. Http:/ www.citynoise.org/article/71. This place is small, cozy and friendly. You’ll...
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Shenzhen Undercover: 02/01/2009 - 03/01/2009
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A Chinese-American's journey to understand China: cultural insights, Johnny Walker, politicking and toys . all while attempting to blend into the background. Monday, February 09, 2009. Chinese Savings = Religion. They won’t do it, but are always saving. Although they like eating McDonald's and Pizza Hut, they don't like to pay for it. Saving money is a religion in China, especially for older generations. While some people have plenty of money saved away already, they still do it. Their daily live...Migra...
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Shenzhen Undercover: 01/01/2011 - 02/01/2011
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A Chinese-American's journey to understand China: cultural insights, Johnny Walker, politicking and toys . all while attempting to blend into the background. Thursday, January 27, 2011. China is a potentially huge market for many foreign products. Luxuries goods, cars, airplanes, vitamins, cosmetics, ect. have all succeeded. This recent exuberance for the foreign products has quasi-blinded some business people in China. One recent article I read in the LA Times titled ". China is hungry for the kind of r...
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Shenzhen Undercover: Guide to Chinese New Year
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A Chinese-American's journey to understand China: cultural insights, Johnny Walker, politicking and toys . all while attempting to blend into the background. Sunday, February 18, 2007. Guide to Chinese New Year. Happy Chinese New Year everybody! For the first time in a long time, I’ve been given the chance to experience Chinese New Year (cny) while being in. In Western terms, CNY could be described as an elaborate combination of Thanksgiving, Christmas and. 1 The New Year's Eve dinner. The most "traditio...
