Review: Doing Business In China: A Guide To The Risks And The Rewards

Doing Business In China: A Guide To The Risks And The Rewards by Christopher Torrens

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The book is interesting in regards to information about Chinese way of doing business and as an overview of its various economic and geographical zones and authorities in general.
However I found some interesting moments there which . First, the text sometimes doesn't match the table data. The book was written in 2010, but the tables have statistical data only up to 2008. Second, I had a feeling that the point of view in the book just portrays the way Chinese people do business in their context as wrong. What foreign companies trying to do in China looks like constant effort to adapt Chinese way of doing business to their concepts. Not sure whether it is a right attitude in this case. Also my interest for proverbs and quotes didn't allow me to miss curious issue that I described in the blog post: Chinese Proverb

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