Must Read Books About China Before Your Visit.
Science and Technology Podcasts are your perfect guides to Shanghai's major attractions. The files are totally free for download and personal use on MP3 players, cell phones and all other mobile devices.
Herbert Smith guide to direct investment for China. It is so great for understanding the nuts and bolts of business in the PRC and its free!!!!
Mao' s Last Dancer, Li recounts his determination, perseverance, vision, courage and hard work, and in particular, the sacred family values and integrity that he learned in poverty-stricken China, which has driven him to become one of the best dancers in the world. He tells of how the sixth of seven sons born to peasants grew up worshipping Mao Zedong before defecting to the United States. also a Movie
Perhaps most important, The Ascent of Money documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the world's biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generation — an economic transformation unprecedented in human history. Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble bursts — sooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And that's why, whether you're scraping by or rolling in it, there's never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.
1,000-year-old Tripitaka (Tibetan Encyclopedia) protected for decades moves into a new, government-built museum.
25 year old Dechong is a member of the ancient Dongtsang family, from China's Qinghai Province, whose ancestor was said to be one of the 30 generals of the legendary King Gesar. .The Tripitaka comprises sutras, poems, art and scientific knowledge. The Tripitaka has more than 700 volumes made of cowhide, birch bark or black, blue or green traditional Tibetan paper with golden and silver powder, vermilion markings and ink. The bindings are carved or incised with traditional patterns or words of the Om Mani Padme Hum, the most common prayer in Tibetan Buddhism. The 700 surviving volumes of the Tripitaka saved by his family is considered the oldest and most complete version held by ordinary people.
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Dorothy Ko's latest Every Step a Lotus.
Hessler's Country Driving
"Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics" by Yasheng Huang.
"Lost on Planet China," by J. Maarten Troost.
"The End of the Free Market," by Ian Bremmer.
"China Entrepreneur: Voices of Experience from 40 Business Entrepreneurs."
"China: Its History and Culture"
Ctories by Ha Jin are good and give unique insight into the lives of ordinary people in China.
Gao Xingjian's "Soul Mountain" China will let you into the country with that one.
"The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers" by
Richard Mcgregor.
The Chinese Dream: The Rise of the World's Largest Middle Class and What It Means to You by Helen Wang
Understanding China by John Bryan Starr
The Search for Modern China by JD Spence
Where East Eats West", Sam Goodman -- Short, insightful and funny.
"Silicon Dragon", Rebecca Fannin -- A series of interviews with Chinese entrepreneurs. It is focused on the Internet industry, but still valuable for other kind of businesses.
One Billion Customers Lessons From the Front Lines of Doing Business in China" by James McGregor
Doing Business In China: How to Profit in the World's Fastest Growing Market by Ted Plafker
Susan Shirk's China: Fragile Superpower. It is a good overview of current Chinese society.
Factory Girls From Village to City in a Changing China Leslie T. Chang
Fanshen A documentry of revolution in a chinese village by William Hinton
Farwell Shanghai Angel Wagenstein
The Good Women of China Hidden Voices by Xinran
Fanshen A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton
Hinton’s book is a fascinating, absorbing and detailed account of land reform in a single Chinese village, Long Bow, near Changzhi in a liberated area in 1948 when land was turned over to the peasants. No less than the better known Red Star Over China, it is a classic of the revolution wrought by Mao’s Communist Party of China (CPC). The book is a very concrete, first person account. Hinton himself lived in the village of Long Bow in China at the time of land reform when the feudal estates were broken up and given to the peasants. Review
As China Goes So Goes The World
China is going to produce the Brands of their own. If they don't develop it for themselves they have the money to buy them (Volvo)
As China Goes So Goes The World - Brands / Branding Consumerism
- China used to only want
these 4 things: Radio, Bycicle, sewing machine, and watch.
Now the growing middle class wants to buy a house car travel education - Consumerism begets more Consumerism:Keeping up with the Jones' Competition is the heart of a consumer driven socity. With Branding you can charge a premium.
Look Down, Not Up Remembering Hinton's Fanshen
By JOHN V. WALSH
As an antidote to the mainstream medias rush of misinformation and vitriol aimed at the Chinese revolution on its 60th anniversary, nothing is so effective as William Hintons masterpiece, Fanshen, which means to stand up or turn over, as in a revolutionary change. Unfortunately this book, never as widely known as it deserved, now seems largely forgotten - like a long banned book.
New China is impressive in many respects, but it arose on the ashes of old China and the suffering endured for millennia by the Chinese peasantry until the end of Chiang Kai-sheks U.S. backed rule. In Hintons book Mao makes no appearance nor do other giants of the Chinese revolution, but we see the fruits of their work up close. Chairman Mao liked to say that to understand society one should look down, not up; and Fanshen does just that.
Prisoner of the State Secret memoirs of former Chinese Communist Party premier and secretary general Zhao Ziyang.
Youtube: Zhao Ziyang, author "Prisoner of the State"
Page 33-34 (from Part 1 The Tiananmen Massacre, Chapter 4 The Crackdown) article and audio
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