F*&% China Culture Lessons. Give Me Anthony Bourdain With No Reservations

July 18th, 2008  by China Business Success Stories

China culture lessons give Anthony BourdainI love watching the TV Show, No Reservations. The show involves Anthony Bourdain (of Kitchen Confidential fame) touring a country and sampling its restaurants and foods. Despite constant (at the beginning and at every commercial) warnings of adult content (there is usually massive swearing, drinking and smoking), I always watch it with my ten year old daughter because I know of no better or more interesting way to learn about foreign…

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Boarding an Asian train

June 27th, 2008  by China Business Success Stories

Now we do not know where this was shot, but we sure are glad we didn’t have to board this train. 
 

Website update

February 21st, 2008  by China Business Success Stories

Website updateAs most of you have noticed by now, we started 2008 with a complete redesigned website. Of course we were wondering what you, our readers, thought about it. In our previous poll you could give your opinion and now we want to present you the results. Most of you said: “Excellent job”. Thank you very much for this compliment!

If you had the opinion that some work is still needed, don’t worry. We are still improving the site, and adding new chapters, such as China Sourcing Reports and Books on China. Be sure to check out these pages as well!

We are always interested in getting to know our readers a bit better, so today we have added a new poll about how often you go to China. You can find it in the left column of our website. We are looking forward to receiving your answers.

Chinese and Western Culture Comparison

January 3rd, 2008  by China Business Success Stories

This Soloshow East meets West by Yang Liu, which was placed at ministry of foreign afairs in Germany, is poster art that compares German / Western culture with Chinese culture in a way that humorously captures some societal differences. Needless to say blue represents Western culture and red Chinese?

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Go 2-Shanghai

September 7th, 2007  by China Business Success Stories

Go 2-ShanghaiYou are young, ambitious and up for a new challenge. Looking for a dazzling internship in an ultramodern city in the country with the fastest growing economy in the world, there’s just no getting around Shanghai. But where to start? How to get in contact with reliable companies? Since January 2007 the answer to all of your questions is called: 2-Shanghai!

Lonneke de Greef and Michael Douglas decided to leave the Netherlands to start a company in China. “We saw many requests on the Internet from students who would like to go to China. At the moment China really is one of the most favourite countries for aspiring interns, and in particular Shanghai is very popular. China has a great demand for them too. Reason enough for us to establish ourselves in Shanghai to launch Read the rest of “Go 2-Shanghai” or post a comment

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