Image by Dharbigt Mærsk via Flickr Just before we had into August, we finished our China Speakers Bureau Newsletter for July, also available here. Today with a focus on intercultural…

Image by Fantake via Flickr In the Huffington Post marketing guru Tom Doctoroff spells out what a winning design in China needs. The middle class, those who can afford non-essential items, is…

Zhu Rongji via Wikipedia China’s efforts to stop irresponsible local lending has changed into an ‘all out’ credit line for local governments, writes Victor Shih, assistant professor in political science,…

The China Speakers Bureau will start soon a pilot with Parliament Speakers, on of the more established speaker agencies in the UK. We see the demand for our speakers mostly…

Chris Anderson via CrunchBase Piracy is the theme of one chapter in an upcoming book by Chris “Long Tail” Anderson and not surprisingly, China is at the core of the…

Zhang Lijia at Chateau deLavigny by Fantake via Flickr Zhang Lijia, the author of “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China, is the highest runner up in…

Image by Fantake via Flickr Author Zhang Lijia spoke Friday 17 July in Amsterdam on her autobiography “Socialism is Great”. Her book plays in the 1980s as she is working…

Image by Fantake via Flickr The internet in China works differently from the internet elsewhere, Sam Flemming tries to explain in a commentary at CNN.  That difference is important to know…

Image via Wikipedia Consumer confidence in China has gone up, after a small dip in April, says Shaun Rein, commenting on the rather weak figures from Yum, the parent company…

Howard French by Fantake via Flickr Former Shanghai bureau chief Howard French not only has a distuighisted career as a foreign correspondent in China, Japan and Africa for the New…