Tuesday Night Reading List (From One-Eyed Panda’s Delicious Library)

It doesn’t look like a red envelope: Bribery in Fujian has switched from red envelopes to Trust-Mart gift certificates.
Rockers Tuning into the Chinese Market: The world’s rock stars have caught onto China’s rock music scene.
The Growing Chinese Love Affair with the Internet: China may yet outpace the US in terms of Internet users, but the [...]

Two Foreigners Views of China During Different Time Periods

I’ve just finished two China books that really give two different views about China, but they have something in common: they’re both about foreigners’ time in China.
The first one is an absolute classic. 400 Billion Customers by Carl Crow is the quintessential business book about how to sell your products in to the China [...]

Head of ChinesePod Has A Blog

Ken Carroll, the guy who started the language-learning-by-Podcast trend with his ChinesePod venture has a new blog. It seems to have started fairly recently as its only three posts long, but it’s really good reading so far — particularly his piece criticizing a recent Economist article on people worldwide learning Mandarin.
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An Interesting Observation About Business Ethics in China

It’s been a busy week so I wasn’t able to put this observation down as fast as I’d like to. I attended a great speech on Thursday morning given by Chris Devonshire-Ellis, Senior partner/founder of Dezan Shira & Associates. Mr. Devonshire-Ellis was giving a talk comparing business environments in China and India where his company [...]

The Canadian Auto Worker Union Gives Up the Right to Strike — Is This A Successful Method to Fight Outsourcing to China?

I heard an interesting news story yesterday while listening to CBC Radio’s the Sunday Edition (podcasts can be found here). The Canadian Auto Workers Union has signed a deal with Magna International that would allow the CAW to form a union in Magna’s plants, but workers would not have the right to strike. At the [...]

Why I Stopped Buying Magazines Off of Chinese Newsstands

Richard Spencer of the Daily Telegraph has a great post on his blog that really sums up why I don’t buy magazines off of the newsstand here anymore:
“The Economist is so important that when it runs something the government doesn’t like the relevant page is ripped out before it is put on the few news [...]

Another Great Writer Passes On

RIP Norman Mailer
The great American writer, Norman Mailer, passed away this weekend. I’ve only actually read one of Mailer’s novels (The Gospel According to the Son), but I’ve always been meaning to read The Quick and the Dead. Now it’s something I will definitely have to do (hints to relatives that are looking for Christmas [...]

There’s No Truth to Yellow Fever

I read an interesting piece on Lost Laowai this morning. LLW owner, Ryan wrote about a recent study that showed that the “yellow fever” phenomenom is a myth. A study by economists in the US found that there is no evidence of a preference of white males for Chinese women, but they also didn’t find [...]

Chinese Diplomats Pressure the CBC

According the China Game, the CBC canceled a documentary on the Falun Gong last night, because it received pressure from the Chinese embassy in Ottawa. I’m not a big fan of the Falun Gong myself (I worked on a couple of FG stories as a journalist and always found them to be a little out [...]

This is Just So Cool: The Steampunk Laptop

I was reading BoingBoing.net this afternoon and I saw this awesome Steampunk Laptop that I had to post the photo of. Steampunk for those not in-the-know is a scifi genre that asks the question what would cyberpunk and modern ideas and technology if it was created in the Victorian Era.

The description from BoingBoing: “This may [...]