What to Know About Doing Business in China

by Des Walsh on March 29, 2008

My friend and colleague, Professor Lonnie B. Hodge, has written the first in a series on doing business in China.

He is less than complimentary about the books and other guides out there already:

We have bookshelves stacked full of expensive kindling labeled “how to do business in China” that we will later use to heat our house.

What he recommends as an essential pre-requisite for anyone planning to business in China is to learn some language and culture.

He provides a great list of resources, both for learning Chinese and for gaining some cultural understanding – mostly free resources, a post well worth bookmarking.

I think I’d better get cracking and learn to say something a bit more advanced than ni hao .

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{ 3 comments }

1 Lonnie March 29, 2008 at 11:58 pm

xie xie :-)

2 Didier April 2, 2008 at 11:14 am

I am very much impressed by this Website
Should you link mine, which is more business oriented, but it will creat synergies
Best Regards

http://businessinchina.blogressources.com/

3 Agel April 9, 2008 at 3:15 am

Very impressive article. My younger brother is thinking to do some businesses in the Asia Pacific. Specially in China. It’d be a great tips for him.

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