(A joint combination of authors)
Although we don’t know what lies ahead of us in the next upcoming weeks, our team and many of our peers said that this would be one of the most memorable days of the trip. From morning until night, we experienced the life of a tourist. As an expat or […]

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Our first company visit was with Lenovo (the computer people). To give a few facts, lenovo now owns IBM’s ThinkPad/IdeaPad line and is doing very well in the Chinese market. While most of the sales in the US are owned by Dell, the Chinese market is dominated by Lenovo, a much larger market than the […]

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That’s a slap in the face. I understand their concern, as there may be some deep rooted mistrust of the Chinese food products. After all, if our toys shipped from China are laced with lead, then what must the food from China be like? If Sin-Yaw Wang is right about only processed meat being […]

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To understand the country, first understand their history. China hasn’t always been unified, in fact, it rarely has been. Throughout their history that I’ve read (the Ming dynasty until the present day) , China has been fragmented by civil war, foreign domination and influence, and constant changes in political power. Even today, we can […]

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Original Article: Beijing Reorganizes Olympic Ticket Sales
Original Article: Olympics Ticketing Director Is Replaced
Unfortunately for Mr. Rong Jun, the director of Beijing’s ticketing operations, the ticketing system that was supposed to distribute 1.8 million tickets for the Beijing Olympic Committee (Bocog) sales event crashed before even processing 9,000. It was reported that the system was only […]

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After reading this article and Ashley’s commentary, I must comment on a few critical points. First of all, Chinese schools do not teach much about teamwork. From an early age, they are taught to achieve much.. but as an individual, not as a group. Although, there is a strong sense of community and […]

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