Today I’m going to give you a quick overview of my short experience as a China entrepreneur for reasons you’ll soon discover. So lets start with the end, and then we’ll work our way to the beginning.
Recently, I was honored to be invited and take part in UC Berkeley’s Asia Business Conference; I was a panelist for the consumer panel; moderated by Paul Tiffany, Senior Lecturer of the Haas School of Business. There I was sitting with Dave Sessions, VP Global ecommerce at Walmart International; Jose Davila, VP Field Human Resources GAP North America, and Dan Harris, founder and partner of Harris & Moure and writer of the famous China Law Blog.
I had a lot of fun at the talk, and it reminded me of a typical client meeting, except I was presenting to 100+ people vs. 5. The nature of the panel spanned the gamut of the subject, and I was told by Professor Tiffany that attendees were very happy with the result; I’ve requested a video of the panel; I’ll post if on LRB if I can get it.
After the talk I was pleasantly surprised to be surrounded by students asking me questions on what it’s like to be a China entrepreneur. I’m sure I babbled out appropriate answers to the questions asked, but it eventually brought me back to pondering my own true situation as an on-the-ground, in-the-trenches entrepreneur in China.
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There is a reason that every girl wish to have a big brother – even they could be too protective sometimes, it’s still an enjoyable relation.
On the contrary, having a younger brother wouldn’t be such a lovely journey in China. Especially when you think of how old generation/rural residents favor sons much more than daughters. And if you put a bit of thought on Confucian’s filial piety code of always taking care of the old and the poor, family or not? Oops! It seems however the parents are assured with this blind loyalty, the succeeding generation would like to stick to their own interpretation of the old theory.
A poor sister exposed her story of parents’ “blackmailing” 200,000 RMB from her younger brother. And WE are not happy.
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Wishing you a happy year of the tiger; hope this year brings you happiness, success, or wealth; and if you’re lucky maybe you’ll get all three.
I’m out in California now, which partly explains the laziness in updating LRB recently. It’ll be a busy week for me; first I’m getting married on Valentines day, then next week, I’ll be heading over to UC Berkeley to serve as panelist for the Berkeley Asia Business Conference; and then in early March will fly down to Singapore to judge the first round of the Effie Awards.
It’s nice to be so busy, but as my ever growing eyebags will attest, it’s taking its toll; methinks my energy regimen of caffeine + caffeine may need to be replaced with actual exercise at some point.
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Hey all, yet another post from the prolific Veronica; this one focuses on China’s “college student problem”; the system continues to churn out clones that are above average (when taken in context) but not up to par to the standards set by their global counterparts.
Whereas it was a sellers market years previous (exemplified by the high turnover rate of students who “jump” from job to job in an effort to increase their salaries) we now see a reverse of the trend, with companies infused with students with low skill; with nary a competent manager in sight.
That’s a problem. Here’s one Chinese college’s attempt to reverse the trend, and comments from Chinese netizens on the effort. Enjoy; -Rand.
There always seem to be problems with China’s college education area. Sometimes people criticize on the general system; sometimes colleges disgust their students; parents blame universities for being too nice or too mean on their babies; when school authorities decide to do something for change, it’s just not good enough.
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Hey All, as you’ve no doubt heard, Google is refusing to comply with China’s censorship policies. This has become a pretty heated political issue; today, Veronica has compiled commentary from Chinese netizens responding to perceived attacks from Google at China. Enjoy -Rand.
Google’s pulling out of China set off China netizens’ concern in a fairly large scale. As many might have been complaining about the strict censorship and the intentional hidden of past political misery, Chinese’s deep rooted nationalism breaks out in front of Google’s – or so called American – scheme to incite anti-China sentiments.
The following post translation comes from one major forum, www.tiexue.net, which is fond of especially by mid-aged men. From this post, you might be able to come to understand Chinese’s views various with sexes or generations.
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