Assim o gweilo começou em um vôo de China do ar.
Parece que eu era a única pessoa non-Chinesa no plano.
O choque da cultura começou lá. O ar China do vôo não é como o vôo Air Canada. Nós fazemos exame de nossos confortos ocidentais para concedido e não apreciamos realmente o que nós temos até que remova. Esta era primeira uma introdução boa, gradual da fase para mim. Faça exame de tudo que nós somos usados a aqui e bata-o abaixo três entalhes. Espaço, serviço, qualidade se washrooms, assento, ou alimento. Eu não sofri, mas realizei que eu era como um guy da cidade que vai visitar primos do país na fazenda. Eu estava indo de uma sociedade desenvolvida a uma sociedade tornando-se. Estavam tentando alcançar nós, e estavam fazendo um trabalho grande, mas…

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Por Ernie Tadla

Assim o gweilo começou em um vôo de China do ar. Parece que eu era a única pessoa non-Chinesa no plano. O choque da cultura começou lá. O ar China do vôo não é como o vôo Air Canada. Nós fazemos exame de nossos confortos ocidentais para concedido e não apreciamos realmente o que nós temos até que remova. Esta era primeira uma introdução boa, gradual da fase para mim. Take all we are used to here and knock it down three notches. Space, service, quality whether washrooms, seating, or food. I did not suffer, but realized that I was like a city guy going to visit country cousins on the farm. I was going from a developed society to a developing society. They were trying to catch up with us, and doing a great job, but were not there yet.
 
Alone with my thoughts, I wondered and worried. What was I getting myself into? The pangs of being alone were deep. It would be four months before Lovy would join me. Without her at my side, I was at the mercy of others and my own mental meanderings. Would Dan and his partners, Wu Bing and Peter, accept me? Would the Chinese staff accept me? How would I order things since I didn’t know the language? Would I succeed? How would I begin? What would I do?

Then the “what ifs” started. What if they don’t accept me? What if I don’t succeed? What if? What if?

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Last night, I was on MSN chatting with my client, whose trading WFOE (Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise) incorporation is being proceed by me currently. He hired a 21 year old assistant to assist him in daily affairs. My client sacked her a couple of days early, for her irresponsibility and laziness, and is seeking another assistant, so he asked me if I happened to know anybody. I introduced a girl who’s intending to quit her present job, and they seemed to have a good conversation on MSN later.

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By Vincent Cheung

Last night, I was on MSN chatting with my client, whose trading WFOE (Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise) incorporation is being proceed by me currently. He hired a 21 year old assistant to assist him in daily affairs. My client sacked her a couple of days early, for her irresponsibility and laziness, and is seeking another assistant, so he asked me if I happened to know anybody. I introduced a girl who’s intending to quit her present job, and they seemed to have a good conversation on MSN later.

The girl was concerned with the mandatory social insurance thing. The problem is, since the trading WFOE is still under incorporation, she wants to know whether she can still get the five social insurances during the first several months before the trading WFOE is legally established. Well, I think it’s an issue between the employer and the employee, and I literally cannot help. So I just reminded my client about the different social insurance treatment against the local Shanghai people (who have Shanghai Hukou) and those non-local staff. Read the rest of “Shanghai’s Social Insurance System” or post a comment

To open restaurants in Shanghai, you’ve got two options:

1. Establish a wholly foreign owned catering management company.
2. Simply open a restaurant

If you want to franchise in Shanghai or intend to sell your restaurants in the future, option 1 would be fit for you …

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