Three Great China Newsletters. Sinocism by Bill Bishop. Trade War by Dexter Roberts. And China Boss News by Shannon Brandao.

I know the author, Tom Carter, of the book, An American Bum in China and he was kind enough to send me a copy of it. I loved it, especially because I spent four years in Iowa and I’ve been to Muscatine (more on that below).  I also loved that it is 102 pages and

I have been a fan of Foreign Policy Magazine (now usually called just Foreign Policy or FP) since I was a kid — not kidding. I can remember always going to Michigan News in Kalamazoo, Michigan (that store has been there since 1947!) to spend my hard-earned newspaper delivery money on the latest issue of

Last week we did a post, What to Read to Stay Up on China, with the following introduction: Our China lawyers are constantly asked what to read to stay up on China and our responses truly vary. A couple of our lawyers read almost exclusively Chinese language media and social media, believing anything else is at least

I just finished the book, Perspectives on Chinese Business and Law and I very much liked it. This book lists four professors as its writers: one from Poland, one from Belgium, and two from China. More specifically, its authors are Dr Łukasz Gołota, Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Relations, Warsaw University (where I

Over the years we’ve often been asked by both our readers and our clients what books they should read “to better understand China.” And over the years we’ve read and written about a ton of books on China. Yet I am never quite sure how to answer the question so I do the lawyer thing

Every so often, one of our China lawyers will get an email asking for a recommendation of THE book to read to “better understand China” or “to get a better handle on China.” These requests often come 2-3 weeks before the person is heading off to China for the first time and they oftentimes mention

Way back in 2012, my good friend Andrew Hupert wrote a book on negotiating with Chinese companies: The Fragile Bridge. And for the last five years, whenever anyone asks me what book to read to learn more about how to negotiate with Chinese companies I recommend The Fragile Bridge. Earlier this week, someone to whom

I have been a fan of Laurel Delaney and her blog, the Global Small Business Blog, for years. Ms. Delaney and her blog do for exporting what we seek to do here for China: provide no-nonsense, real-life information that helps. Ms. Delaney’s focus is on exporting products and services from the United States, with a