Recommended China Readings – February

The Party: the secret world of China’s communist rulers by Richard McGregor. Great book by the Financial Times’s former Beijing Bureau chief, which describes the role of the communist party and how it influences decision making and power structures in...

China news commentary – Xi Jinping US visit

Last week China’s Vice President, and expected next leader, Xi Jinping visited the US. Here you can find a good background and political summary. Concrete outcomes of the visit for companies on the ground in China include: eased restrictions on foreign films in...

Recommended China Readings – January

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Ezra F Vogel. A 900-plus page book about the person most responsible for transformation of China and opening it to contact and trade with the rest of world. Meticulously researched, Vogel a Harvard professor and...