The China Speaker’s Bureau First book — A Changing China — is now out in print and available from Amazon. Maria Korolov edited the book, and contributed one of the chapters. Other authors included Zhang Lijia, Kaiser Kuo, Shaun Rein, Tom Doctoroff, and other speakers represented by the China Speakers Bureau.
MARIA KOROLOV TROMBLY is president of Trombly International, an editorial services company that provides news and features about business in emerging markets to U.S. publications. Latest projects include Hypergrid Business, covering the enterprises uses of virtual worlds, and Hyperica, a directory of destinations on the 3D Web.
She is also the chief operating officer of the China Speakers Bureau, which places more than 300 China experts into speaking engagements around the world.
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