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Friday Irrevrence: Labels are Important
My wife’s aunt brought this bottle of wine to a recent family dinner at the Liu Family Restaurant next to the National Art Museum of China (Meishuguan) in Beijing. Nobody is happier than I to see...
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Three Hurdles That Will Define CTrip
The OTA that recorded the strongest performance in 2015 was Ctrip, which grew by an impressive estimated 58%, to reach gross bookings of $27 billion, driven by the booming Chinese domestic and outbound...
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Wanda Behind the Mask
Embed from Getty Images Wanda’s Wang Jianlin has now made his fourth major acquisition in the US film industry. To his stable of the AMC and Carmike cinema chains and the Legendary Pictures production...
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State of the Union: American Business and The China Challenge
In the wake of the inauguration of Donald Trump, I have been getting calls from clients, from past clients, and from perspective clients all asking what this is going to mean to them. I expected to get...
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Embed from Getty Images We finally allowed ourselves to watch Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall. I have seen worse films in the genre (I’d argue it was probably no worse than Cowboys and Aliens, for...
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Wanda and Hollywood: Three Questions
Embed from Getty Images The craft of filmmaking is a perilous one, a balancing act between the art of cinematic storytelling and capricious public taste. Overt inclusion of foreign propaganda would...
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Huawei’s PR Struggles
And so within the space of half an hour the Financial Review was shown the new and old face of corporate China.There’s paranoid Huawei that will not answer questions and refuses to explain itself in...
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The Other Wanda Question
Embed from Getty Images Apropos of my post last week about Wanda, a quick thought. One of the issues that remains a matter of our ongoing fascination with Wanda revolves around a series of important...
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Mi Home
Back in the Hutong Thinking Geek 1427 hrs. Visiting Xiaomi’s Mi Home store near company headquarters in Beijing. At first glance, the store’s appearance bears a passing resemblance to the retail...
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Kaifu Lee and the Wisdom of Knaves
Kai-fu Lee “Kai-fu Lee: Why American Companies Struggle in China,” Pandaily.com, January 30, 2018 Catching up on my reading during a hotel-bound weekend in Shanghai, I had a chance to read Pandaily’s...
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