Computerworld
Outsourcing in China
SHANGHAI -- Unlike India's large and thriving outsourcing industry, China's is still immature and fragmented, with few companies attaining high-level international certifications. Moreover, most of the IT outsourcing that happens in China today serves that country's domestic market, such as the financial services sector.
November 6, 2006

Computerworld
Bridging the Chinese Skills Gap. Despite vast numbers of IT graduates, suitable talent is hard to find
SHANGHAI -- Hankscraft Inc. has been making industrial motors and mechanized pumps for more than 50 years in Reedsburg, Wis. The company came to China just three years ago but already has twice as many employees here as it has at home. Jonathan Funkhouser, who is general manager of Hankscraft's China operations and who makes the top-level technology decisions, thought it was going to be hard to get all the government approvals he would need in order to set up shop in China. But that turned out to be the easy part. "Finding good employees and managers was the most difficult," he says.
June 26, 2006

Computerworld
Language Barriers
Among the various sourcing peculiarities and problems specific to China is regionalism, says Pieter Tsiknas, director of SearchBank's Beijing office. Although all Chinese nationals officially speak Mandarin, in practice, the local dialects can be mutually unintelligible. Shanghainese, for example, is a completely different language from Mandarin, and employees from Shanghai may speak Mandarin with an accent. Similar regional linguistic differences exist in other parts of China as well.
June 26, 2006

CMO Magazine
Back to the future
Jim Murphy learned about marketing to Chinese customers in bars. When he first came to China in December of 2004, he didn't think that consumers here could afford or were interested in the relatively pricey Jack Daniel's whiskey that his company, Brown-Forman, produced.
January, 2006

Albany Times-Union
A terrible threat from the north
SHANGHAI -- It was so nice to wake up the other morning and hear the head of the government take full responsibility for the results of an investigation into a scandal that has rocked the nation, embarrassed the party, and compromised the public integrity of key leading officials. It was just too bad that the country was Canada, and that the news was coming to me via the CBC based in Calgary.
November 25, 2005

CIO Insight
Trends: Chinese Legal System Hinders IP Protection Efforts
If finding a software pirate is as simple as walking down the street and looking around for wheelbarrows, why is China--home of the largest authoritarian government on the planet--having problems catching these guys?
October 24, 2005

CIO Insight
Trends: Cost for Windows falls -- to 50 cents -- in China
Despite three years of attention by lawmaking committees and a steadily increasing roster of laws protecting intellectual property, China is a shopper's paradise for all things pirated--handbags, jewelry, movie DVDs, and, of course, software.
October 20, 2005

The Albany Times Union
Teaching, Learning are One in China
SHANGHAI, China -- I'm watching a DVD of "Blazing Saddles'' that cost the equivalent of a dollar. The entire movie is subtitled in Mandarin, including the Yiddish spoken by one of Mel Brooks' characters, an Indian chief. At the Pudong International Airport, travelers purchase phone cards from an "Intelligent Card Dispenser.'' A sign, also in English, reads "International & Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan.''
February 3, 2004

The Shanghai Daily
Jewish Affinity
It is said that the history of the Jewish people last 7,000 years while the history of the Chinese people stretches back 5,000 years. What does that mean? The Jews had to go 2,000 years without Chinese food.
April 22, 2004

The Oriental Morning Post
The Other Side of War
Almost biblically, American instruments of war have been "beaten into ploughshares" by the Laos.
May 28, 2004

The Oriental Morning Post
How to Get Ahead in a Western Company
How does the average work-a-day Shanghainese overcome the great walls that separate Chinese from Western business culsture and light the fuse that will rocket them up the corporate ladder? With initiative, flexibility, consistency, frankness, a whole lot of hard work and a little bit of good old fashioned common sense.
June 18, 2004

The Yang Cheng Evening News
Guangzhou In A Foreigner's Eyes
There's been a great number of changes in Guangzhou these two years. Not only the residents here but also the foreigners who've passed by could feel it. Bill Marcus, 37 years old, used to be journalist in Albany, NY. Now he is a graduate student at New York State University. He visited Guangzhou in 1995 and this July he came again. After going back to the United States, he wrote to the Guangdong Province Travel Bureau an article about what he had seen and felt in Guangzhou.
September 20, 1997

The Sunday Record
Urban China’s westernization more visible to visitors
Making money or “jumping into the sea” of business is first and foremost on the mind of the Chinese. Foreign businessmen say Chinese Communism has been reinvented to make China safe for foreign capital. Even the langue of socialism is changing.
July 2, 1995

The New York Times
For Gay People, Out of Sight, Out of Life
AFTER World War II it was no longer acceptable to be anti-Semitic. There is going to be similar upheaval when AIDS is cured.
Oct 7, 1990