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Striking Honda workers at Foshan, image from a Sina.com article, now deleted The latest Sinica podcast is up. Hosted by Kaiser Kuo with Kathleen McLaughlin , reporter for the Bureau of National Affairs and Global Post who has written extensively on electronics manufacturing trends in China, and Jonathan...
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Young Mao The latest Sinica podcast has been online for a few days already: a discussion about Yuan Tengfei, Mao's legacy and foreign self-censorship hosted by Kaiser Kuo with Forbes Beijing bureau chief Gady Epstein , occasional Danwei contributor David Moser and me. You can download or listen to...
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The Macao Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo The seventh episode oft he Sinica podcast, brainchild of Kaiser Kuo is now online: it's a discussion with Kaiser, Gady Epstein of Forbes and Evan Osnos of the New Yorker and me about electric bikes and Chinese soft power. The podcast includes a postcard from...
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The new law aims to stop employers from abusing their workers. As of January 1st this year, a new labor law went into effect. Law firm Harris and Moure's Steve Dickinson has done extensive blogging about the new law. In this episode, your correspondent gets the low-down on the new law from Mr. Dickinson...
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Is China to be the next hotbed of innovation? China wants to design its own iPods instead of just putting them together. In this episode your Danwei correspondents talk about China's goal of "indigenous innovation". China is following two paths of innovation; state-driven innovation and private sector...
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Mauro Marescialli, managing director of Standards Following on the theme initiated at Danwei's First Plenary Session , this podcast interview looks at marketing communications in China and how one Beijing-based boutique design firm fits into the agency landscape. Mauro Marescialli is an occasional contributor...
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Steve Dickinson of Harris & Moure The National Development and Reform Commission of the Chinese government releases an annual "Catalog for the Guidance of Foreign Invested Enterprises". Steve Dickinson is a Shanghai-based attorney at the law firm Harris & Moure and coauthor of China Law Blog . He has...
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Maya Alexandri gives insights into IPR IPR issues in China are often discussed in terms of politics, focusing on all the many reasons the practice China's IPR laws do not amount to what they are on paper. Less often does the discussion steer to what companies should actually do in practice while operating...
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We are pleased to be interviewing David Wolf, CEO of Wolf Group Asia and author of and Peking Review . In this episode we explore China's version of "technonationalism", a term used to refer to technological development as a government policy. David argues that although China has so far only focused...
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Barak Paztal is co-CEO of Meijob.com , a job-focused vertical search engine based in Beijing. Barak introduces his firm and gives insight into the job search experience of China's jobless netizens. Listen to Meijob's Barak Paztal . Subscribe to Danwei FM ( in China ) Subscribe to Danwei FM ( outside...
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Erica of Responsible China brings us an interview with Caroline Campbell, creative director and co-producer of the Green Dragon Media Project, a multimedia report about the green construction industry in China. From Responsible China: Caroline Campbell first fell in love with nature while growing up...
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A conversation with Bill Bishop, founder of Red Mushroom, producers of 宝宝蹦蹦 (Baobaobengbeng), a virtual world for children. Last time your correspondent's Mac was parked at the service center, I had to spend a week at a local internet cafe. When one reads about 网瘾 (Net addiction) in the Chinese press...
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Some are having to cut back In the West, economists talk about CPI and other economic indicators. In China, when inflation rears its ugly face, the pundits talk about the price of pork and eggs--the first things sacrificed when budgets get tight. Shaun Rein, managing director of China Market Research...
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Your correspondent had a business textbook in university that illustrated, with neat little box diagrams, the cultural differences in economic behavior between East and West, specifically that Americans buy everything on credit while Asians stow all their money in low interest bank accounts like pack...
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Maneck Mohan, founder of Recruit.net As Chinahr.com's annoying superman job seeker commercial circulates on Focus Media screens and subway station walls, we are reminded of the proliferation of job sites that has occurred in the last year or so. Is it a bubble? There is certainly no shortage of job seekers...