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Anti-Chinese feelings on the rise in the US – Richard Kuslan
Richard Kuslan A rising tide against China and imports from China, notes Richard Kuslan in the US, here in his weblog, triggered off by recalls of cars from China. The animus towards China — specifically imported products — has never, in my lifetime, been as acute nor as widespread thanRead More →
China’s banks under threat of rescue plan – Victor Shih
Victor Shih In a decade China’s banks have changed from government counters for handing out money into professional financial institutions. But the recent four trillion Renminbi rescue plan might push those banks ten years back in history, writes assistant professor Victor Shih in the Wall Street Journal. A year ago,Read More →
China’s internet is different – Kaiser Kuo
Kaiser Kuoby Fons1 via FlickrChina’s internet is profoundly different from the internet in the US, Korea or Japan, Kaiser Kuo explains to Thomas Crampton.More than 80 percent of the internet users in China uses IM, preferably through Tencent’s QQ, much more than anywhere in the world. They still prefer BBS’sRead More →
Adding ‘history’ as a topic
Jasper Becker At the China Speakers Bureau we are reluctant to add too many new categories to our website: too many subdivision make searching often more complicated than easy. And having too many topics with only one speaker is also not a good idea.But on popular demand we have nowRead More →
China preparing for a soft landing in 2009 – Shaun Rein
Shaun Reinby Fons1 via FlickrChina’s consumer spending is going strong and the country is heading for a soft landing from its economic troubles in six months from now, says Shaun Rein, managing director of the China Market Research Group in Shanghai in an interview with China Radio International.Despite all gloomyRead More →
Social change documented – Zhang Lijia
Zhang Lijia Two very different and rather entertaining interviews with Zhang Lijia, documenting the writer who is documenting a changing China. On the new trend of books on the new China. Interviewers are Xu Xi and Lawrence Gray. CommercialZhang Lijia is a speaker at the China Speakers Bureau. If youRead More →
Old Love Lane up for the hammer? – Paul French
Paul Frenchby Fons1 via FlickrPaul French reports at his weblog about the Shanghai sledgehammers threatening the Old Love Lane, now Wujiang Lu, up for “redevelopment”. People voting with their wallets for tasty local food rather than western fast food. But the builders are encroaching – already some of the oldRead More →
Most sought speakers – December 2008
Zhang Lijiaby Fons1 via FlickrZhang Lijia became in December the fastest mover among our corp of speakers at the China Speakers Bureau. She is, at the second place, actually the first to really come close to Shaun Rein, who retains the first place.Jasper Becker – who only joined our serviceRead More →
Next week: CSB-newsletter is due
William Overholtby Fons1 via FlickrNext week the December 2008 China Speakers Bureau Newsletter is due, only the second in our short life. Some of the subjects: most-sought speakers for December China Predictions for 2009 CSB-speakers in the news “Engage China” speaking tour by Lonnie Hodge in the US Our “ARead More →
Mirella Visser joins the China Speakers Bureau
Mirella Visser The Asian economic crisis in the 1990s, the reunification of Hong Kong with China and the collapse of the Barings bank happened within Mirella Visser’s tenure as senior manager at the ING Group in Asia. From Hong Kong she led as a member of the management board ING’sRead More →
Why China’s consumption will go strong in 2009 – Paul French
tPaul FrenchFive reasons why China’s retail consumption will do well in 2009, published in Paul French‘ Access Asia newsletter, and here republished by Danwei. It goes against the trend of doom and gloom that comes along with the economic crisis in the US – and to a lesser degree inRead More →
Spending still on track – Shaun Rein
Shaun Reinby Fons1 via FlickrSpending by urban consumers is still on track, says Shaun Rein, director of the China Market Research Group, based on his own research in the International Herald Tribune. Seventy out of one hundred urban consumers had no plan to change their spending habits despite all theRead More →