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An insider's perspective on this growing economic powerhouse
What's Wrong With China opens the doors to one of the least understood countries in the world. Author Paul Midler draws on over twenty years of manufacturing experience, working with Asian suppliers in a broad range of industries, to provide an insider's perspective on what China's rise means to American businesses. Approaching China's problems as if they were our own, this book tackles the subject matter head-on to help American readers recognize and understand China's growing economic and cultural impact on this country. The author's own anecdotes explore and explain the major challenges that come along with doing business in China, and a deep appreciation and illustration of the country's rich culture embroider the lessons every businessperson should learn.
No one doubts China's global importance today, yet few truly understand the nation in a general sense. This book acts as a primer, but also digs deeper to provide a more nuanced understanding of this powerhouse nation.
* Understand Chinese culture in the context of doing business
* Get to know this emerging cultural and economic power
* Delve into China's social challenges through first-hand accounts
* Peek inside the Chinese economy through the lens of American business
Globally, China's economy touches most of the world. In the U.S., the Chinese economy is so intertwined with our own that we should know and understand the nation's problems as well as we know our own--yet, who really understands China? What's Wrong With China takes you beyond economic analysis, beyond the tourism, and beyond the hype to show the heart of the nation and the nature of business in China.
List of contents
Chapter 1: The Pirate Ship
Chapter 2: A Mania for Money
Chapter 3: Blush of Shame
Chapter 4: Beating the System
Chapter 5: Intermediaries
Chapter 6: Dulled Senses
Chapter 7: Emotional Negotiators
Chapter 8: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Chapter 9: Chemicals, Guns, and Gimcracks
Chapter 10: Sinocentric Thinking
Chapter 11: "That's My Hand"
Chapter 12: Lack of Conscience
Chapter 13: Tacit Collusion
Chapter 14: Networked Behaviors
Chapter 15: Partner on the Deal
Chapter 16: Self-Regulating Empire
Chapter 17: Corps De Ballet
Chapter 18: Informal Paradox
Chapter 19: Brown Numbers
Chapter 20: Reform, Reform, Reform
Chapter 21: The Dynastic Cycle
Chapter 22: Nibble, Nibble...
Chapter 23: The Social Order
Chapter 24: Cat's Paws and Telegraphed Punches
Chapter 25: The Great Absorber
Chapter 26: Kleptoparasitism
Chapter 27: Cleaning the Slate
Chapter 28: Massacred in Business
Chapter 29: The China Watchers
Chapter 30: Isolationist Past
Chapter 31: The Benefit of the Doubt
About the author
Paul Midler has lived twenty years in East Asia and speaks Mandarin. He works as a consultant and advisor to companies with business interests in the region. His first book,
Poorly Made in China, was published to significant acclaim and his follow-up,
What's Wrong with China, has been widely anticipated.
Summary
An insider's perspective on this growing economic powerhouse What's Wrong With China opens the doors to one of the least understood countries in the world.
