Foreign Mental Blocks – China Business

newdynasty.com.cn — While working in China is a completely new experience for most foreigners—and a completely foreign experience at that—there are some things that are, well, pretty easy to understand, I think, but that many new-to-China foreigners just don’t seem to get. I’ve put together a list of issues that have stumped more than one foreign client in the past few years—and I made the list because all of these issues came up within the last month working with clients in the US during the current run-up to Chinese New Year.

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therealadm 1 year 46 weeks ago

I've just put out a Google Alert on this author -- way to keep the interest throughout the piece and the man seems to know what he's talking about. Almost like that book: POORLY MADE IN CHINA. Nice catch!

ndmagxian 1 year 46 weeks ago

David is a valued contributor of ND Xi'an. We are proud of having him onboard. Check out his website link on the bottom of his articles. Thanks Gtowna!

therealadm 1 year 46 weeks ago

Done deal! I even emailed him to let him know. :-)

ndmagxian 1 year 46 weeks ago

He already knows it :) Thanks anyways.

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