Doing Business in the New China: A Handbook and Guide

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China's economy, despite recently weathered challenges, continues to prove attractive to foreign investors, expanding businesses, and entrepreneurs seeking global opportunities. This handbook has been written for anyone with an interest in doing business in China, including the consultants and specialists who work with global companies, but it is far more than an introduction to the Chinese market. Combining a deep knowledge of Chinese culture with her recent experience and continuing work with managers who do business in this sleeping economic superpower, the author brings out the nuances in everything she writes about, e.g., the distinctions among Chinese in income, target market, and geographic region. She demonstrates how Western notions of market segmentation, for example, may be fatally flawed when applied indiscriminately to the same demographically selected categories of Chinese consumers. Investing in China is not some "get rich quick" scheme. Only those who take the time to fully and thoroughly understand the Chinese market, and how that market is likely to interact with their products or services, will demonstrate the patience necessary to achieve success.

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Comprehensive and Informative.......2005-01-15

This is an excellent book on marketing, management, and working in China. Informative, up to date, and useful, including for people with long-term experience in Asia.

Great business guide for China.......2004-11-27

I have been living in China for years, working in textiles. After reading the book, I now much better understand many of the problems I had, and I wish I would have been able to purchase such a book earlier. It offers great examples of successful business practices and management in China, but also a broad range of pitfalls and mistakes and how to avoid. Particularly I like the lists and tips, which give helpful summaries for important topics.
This is a book I have been waiting for some time. A good summary of a complex topic, and highly recommendable for foreign managers that have to go to and work in China.
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Great Guide on China Business.......2004-11-22

A useful and down-to-business book on the new economic giant - China. The cultural, economic, social and managerial wealth which the book covers about business in China is professional, broad, and very applicable. I knew China is growing, but I did not know to which extent, why, or even how to participate. The author does not only describe the current situation in China, she also gives a very good insight into the mentality of Chinese, their business attitude, and how to face Chinese in countless day-to-day business situations. A very good introduction and also an excellent companion for any business trip to China, including for experienced China-travelers. The book is informative, detailed and captivating, and I recommend it for anyone interested in China. - far beyond the business.

Doing Business in the New China: A Handbook and Guide

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Doing Business in the New China: A Handbook and Guide
Birgit Zinzius
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORXKA6

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In this comprehensive and controversial case study of anticorruption efforts, Frank Anechiarico and James B. Jacobs show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine our ability to govern. By constraining decision makers' discretion, shaping priorities, and causing delays, corruption control—no less than corruption itself—has contributed to the contemporary crisis in public administration.

"Anechiarico and Jacobs . . . have pushed aside the claims and posturing by officials and reformers and revealed a critical need to reevaluate just what we have and are doing to public servants, and to the public, in the name of anti-corruption."—Citylaw

"A timely and very useful addition to the new debate over corruption and reform."—Michael Johnston, American Political Science Review

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Good history, but weak and questionable arguments.......2005-12-12

I will give this book four stars for providing a historical background and for looking at public corruption from a fresh perspective. But the book is painfully weak in backing up its main claim that public corruption controls are ineffective and are to be blamed for a slow and inefficient government.

The main argument against anti-corruption measures presented (implicityly) is that they are ineffective because their effectiveness cannot be proven. While this is a somewhat weak argument, the line of argument becomes especially weak because of the authors' frequent reliance on anectodal effidence in support of their own assertions. Often it nothing more than a quote or two from frustrated employees presented as "proof" of the negative impacts of corruption control. Admitting that neither the positive nor the negative effects can easily be measured would have been a more credible and balanced approach.

While I liked the new perspective, the authors go too far at times, pushing the limits of intellectual honesty. One example (p. 46): "The government, for example, may get insurance coverage for a reasonable price even when a high-level official gets a kick-back. Nevertheless, by today's standards, such conduct is deemed corrupt ..." - does anybody (other than the authors) think it's not corrupt?

The final conclusion is also weak on substance, arguing for a vague 'new discourse' on public corruption without really offering any new ideas or alternatives to the approaches they criticize so heavily.

An academic study of the failure of anticorruption efforts.......1998-07-30

This is an excellent book. Its academic / sociological approach may put off some lay readers, but that would be too bad. The subject, and the message, are both very important. In many ways, this book is similar to "The Appearance of Impropriety: How the Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Government, Business and Society," but although this book is somewhat less accessible to general readers it is certainly stronger from a social-science standpoint. An excellent book, well worth reading for anyone interested in why repeated efforts to stamp out political corruption have borne such mixed (at best) results.

The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective. (book reviews): An article from: Criminal Justice Ethics

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The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective. (book reviews): An article from: Criminal Justice Ethics
Jameson W. Doig
Manufacturer: Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Criminal Justice Ethics, published by Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics on June 22, 1997. The length of the article is 4652 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective. (book reviews)
Author: Jameson W. Doig
Publication: Criminal Justice Ethics (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1997
Publisher: Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics
Volume: v16 Issue: n2 Page: p35(7)

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Many different kinds of animals have adopted a parasitic life style on the skin and gills of marine and freshwater fishes, including protozoans, flatworms, leeches, a range of crustaceans and even some vertebrates (lampreys). There is a parasitic barnacle, described first in the 19th century by Charles Darwin, fish lice that change sex and bivalve molluscs parasitic only when young. This book explores for the first time in one volume, the remarkable biology of these little known and frequently bizarre animals.

The following closely interwoven themes are considered for each group of parasites: how they find their hosts, how they attach, feed and reproduce, the damage they inflict and how the host’s immune system retaliates. Based on the British fauna, but extending where appropriate to examples from North America, Australia and elsewhere, the book is essential reading, not just for the professional parasitologist, but also for anyone interested in fishes and in this neglected field of British natural history.

With the enquiring naturalist in mind, terms and concepts are explained as they arise, backed up by a glossary, and the text is liberally illustrated. An introductory chapter on fish biology sets the scene and common fish names are used throughout, as well as scientific names.

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Random walks have proven to be a useful model in understanding processes across a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines. This book is an introduction to some of the most powerful and general techniques used in the application of these ideas. Its self-contained text will appeal to graduate students across science, engineering and mathematics who need to understand the applications of random walk techniques, as well as to established researchers.

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A concept of "intensive mothering" exacerbates the inevitable tensions working mothers face, claims sociologist Sharon Hays. While women are expected to be nurturing and unselfish in their role as mothers, they are expected to be competitive and even ruthless at work. Drawing on ideas about mothering since the Middle Ages, on contemporary childrearing manuals, and on in-depth interviews, Hays shows that "intensive mothering" is a twentieth-century concept. Unrealistic expectations of mothers, she suggests, reflect a deep cultural ambivalence about the pursuit of self-interest.

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Interesting, but the methods are questionable.......2000-01-24

An interesting book for anyone who has ever grappled with balancing work and motherhood. However, Hays' review of secondary sources on family life throughout the ages reads like an undergraduate term-paper. Hays' analysis of child-rearing manuals concludes that while people are buying these manuals, the effect upon them is unknown. The meat of her analysis is based upon interviews with 38 women - a focus group too small to contain any conclusive evidence on the topic. If you are looking for a sociological analysis of motherhood & work, the rigorous quantitative approaches are just not there. If, however, you want an entertaining ancedotal book on how some women view motherhood, child-rearing & working, then this is the book for you.

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CULTURAL CONTRADICTIONS OF MOTHERHOOD
Sharon Hays
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OS7MN6

The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood (Paper)

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The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood (Paper)
S Hays
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OS8IM0

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The Scotch-Irish began emigrating to Northern Ireland from Scotland in the seventeenth century to form the Ulster Plantation. In the next century these Scottish Presbyterians migrated to the Western Hemisphere in search of a better life. Except for the English, the Scotch-Irish were the largest ethnic group to come to the New World during the eighteenth century. By the time of the American Revolution there were an estimated 250,000 Scotch-Irish in the colonies, about a tenth of the population. Twelve U.S. presidents can trace their lineage to the Scotch-Irish.

This work discusses the life of the Scotch-Irish in Ireland, their treatment by their English overlords, the reasons for emigration to America, the settlement patterns in the New World, the movement westward across America, life on the colonial frontier, Scotch-Irish contributions to America's development, and sites of Scotch-Irish interest in the north of Ireland.

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Average Account With Many Mistakes.......2000-09-06

Chepesiuk presents an overview for the general reader which is somewhat novel for focusing to a very great extent on the Scottish as well as Irish origins of the Ulster Scots who became known as the Scotch-Irish in North America. In fact, some two thirds of the book's text, 92 out of 146 pages, is dedicated to these origins. However, there is little new in Chespesiuk's version which cites without replacing in any way the standard accounts such as James Leyburn's THE SCOTCH-IRISH: A SOCIAL HISTORY and Wayland Dunaway's THE SCOTCH IRISH OF COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA. Chespesiuk does not comment upon the origin and development of the often controversial term 'Scotch-Irish,' which is a very strange omission since the term is at the heart of any definition of who these people were or became in America. On the other hand, there is an entire chapter devoted to the Siege of Derry in 1689 which he argues to some effect is central to understanding the siege mentality and combativeness of the Ulster Scots or Scotch-Irish in both Ireland and the American colonies. Unfortunately, there are some historical errors and many minor mistakes which should have been corrected. For example, on page 11, Chespesiuk mentions that the Romans did not conquer Ireland as they had the British Isles when it is well established that they did not conquer Scotland though they did temporarily occupy parts of the Lowlands. They also did not penetrate parts of Cornwall, Wales, and Cumbria. On page 14, he states that Edward I of England removed the Stone of Scone, the fabled 'Stone of Destiny,' from Scotland in 1296 to London where it now remains. Since this book was published in 2000 he should have been aware the Stone was returned to Scotland in 1997. He mentions that except for some place names nothing of the Picts remains, which is incorrect because many of their carved standing stones still exist. On page 42, he refers to Aberdeen being in the north west of Scotland when it is, in fact, in the north east. On page 51, the Scottish Reformation is misdated as 1660 rather than 1560. On page 68, the first complete sentence lacks a word, probably 'died.' On page 99, he states that early Scotch-Irish migration to America began in 1780 when the date should be 1680. Finally, he spends considerable time mentioning the great impact of the 17th century English leader Oliver Cromwell in Ireland but makes no mention of his equally great impact in Scotland. In conclusion, this is a rather average addition to the bibliography of books on the Scotch-Irish. James Leyburn, who is mentioned above, remains the definitive historian of the Scotch-Irish.

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Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpost on the North American frontier. Thelma Wills Foote details the arrival of the first immigrants, including African slaves, and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African, European, and Native American descent, showing how racial domination became key to the building of the settler colony at the tip of Manhattan Island. During the colonial era, the art of governing the city's diverse and factious population, Foote reveals, involved the subordination of confessional, linguistic, and social antagonisms to binary racial difference. Foote investigates everyday formations of race in slaveowning households, on the colonial city's streets, at its docks, taverns, and marketplaces, and in the adjacent farming districts. Even though the northern colonial port town afforded a space for black resistance, that setting did not, Foote argues, effectively undermine the city's institution of black slavery. This history of New York City demonstrates that the process of racial formation and the mechanisms of racial domination were central to the northern colonial experience and to the founding of the United States.

Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City

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Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City
Thelma Wills Foote
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKJL2Y

Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City.(Book review): An article from: The Historian

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Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Harlow W. Sheidley
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 526 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City.(Book review)
Author: Harlow W. Sheidley
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
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Volume: 68 Issue: 3 Page: 577(2)

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Great and important stuff!.......2000-10-31

I really enjoyed this book. The Greeks undoubtedly had a very interesting culture, and an analysis of their early scientists is an important an interesting read. Mr Lloyd has compiled a good introductory overview, outlining the major players, the development of various ideas, and some suggestions why their "science" got started in the first place. This is not an easy question to answer. I liked his idea that critical analysis of ideas about the natural world may have been a corrollary of a general environment of critical examination of political structure and ideas in difficult times. In other words, because ideas in general were subjected to critical analysis, critical examination of the natural world logically followed, more as an afterthought than a deliberate injunction. It is an interesting theory.

The book includes discussions of various differences and similarities between modern and ancient science. Ancient thinkers seemed less concerned with the practical potential of their ideas. The pursuit of knowledge for knowledge sake, with a few notable exceptions, was a worthy enough endeavour in itself. They saw the natural world as something more to be studied than "tamed". "Science" was a more vaguely defined discipline; few people practised it much less got paid for it. The book discusses the various streams and ideas which grew about, with, and around it, such as medicine, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, and biology. The Pythagorians, Platonists, Milesians, Aristotle, Thales, and Anaximander are all names which come to the fore, but unfortunately, their contribution withers away far too quickly in the history of the world. Some interesting points I noted were early suggestions that man had sprung from other organisms, (namely fish), the problem of change, theories concerning the nature of matter-you know-elements, atoms and so on.

A look into the thinking of the early Greeks is in part a mirror into the heart and nature of our society. My only complaint with the book is that we have so little remaining information about these thinkers and their times.

Please, archaeologists and the like, find much more about the Greeks in some colossal discovery of thousands of well-preserved, buried manuscripts in a buried ancient city somewhere about Greece, so we can know more about the ancient world.

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EARLY GREEK SCIENCE THALES TO ARISTOTLE
G.E.R. Lloyd
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RB43D2

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Reality is slipping away, writes David Strong in Crazy Mountains, and is being eroded by a glut of technological devices and commodities. But all is not lost if we learn to care for the things at the center of the good life.

Written in the tradition of Walden and A River Runs Through It with philosophical clarity and literary power, this book opens with a vivid account of the Crazy Mountains of Montana, an island of high, craggy peaks, forest, meadows, and rushing streams, surrounded by the sweep of the high plains. A newly-bulldozed road and a planned timber sale jeopardize the wild character of the range and trigger the wide-ranging reflections of this remarkable book.

Technology is transforming Earth in increasingly extensive ways, and Strong urges us to awaken from the spell of technology--from the unexamined belief that its devices and commodities make our lives good. He warns that even an environmental ethic can be subverted by the glamorous pull of the consumer culture. From wilderness we learn what things are real and how this reality can re-order our lives, our communities, and our nation. We learn another way to be.

This is a one-of-a-kind book. It soars gracefully, yet presents a comprehensive vision of the challenge wilderness offers to our contemporary culture.

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Excellent insight into technology.......2007-05-09

Strong gets to the heart of the matter of modern technological society in Crazy Mountains. He explores the nature of technology and how it casts its spell on modern society. The solution he discusses for resisting this hold of technology on our lives is insightful and provocative. Drawing from Albert Borgmann's work, he brings a level of eloquence and personal interaction to the discussion not found in Borgmann.

Good but derivative.......1998-05-08

A good book that answers the tough philosphical question--what makes vicarious technological experience less rich than 'authentic' experience. Borrows a lot from author's mentor's work which is excellent--Albert Borgmann's Technology and the Characater of contemporary life

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