A friend pointed us to this amusing and probably pretty accurate post at a blog called DiligenceChina, which appears directed at Americans looking to do business in China. This post deals with what they call the "Lexicon of China-Business Entry Terms" and offers blunt definitions of terms like "Greater China," "Special Chinese Method" and "Chundits." What initially caught our eye, however, was this entry: more ›

What do you do when you write a book about running a business in China, you get a book deal and then the publisher backs out at the last minute? Well, after shouting several bad words, you get the book published piecemeal until another publisher shows interest. And so Mark Kitto, one of the folks who started the whole That's Shanghai "magazine empire" back in the late 1990s, only to have it "stolen by the state" six years later, tells his tale in the April issue of Prospect: more ›

Photo of Xiangyang Market from Shanghai Daily. more ›

Image from Amazon.com. more ›