The China Business Law Blog does an excellent job analyzing a rather mundane Chinese case involving a consumer who sued his travel agency for breach of contract. Seems the travel agent failed to take the consumer to all of the sites set forth in their contract. China Business Law Blog concluded the following from this… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Vote China Law Blog — Pretty Please
Posted in Good PeopleAs much as I hate begging, I hate losing even more. So with that in mind, I am begging all our loyal readers (and anyone else) to vote for China Law Blog. We are in the race of our lives (how’s that for drama) for the best “black letter law” blog. The ABA (American Bar… Continue Reading
The China Game/The China Vortex
Posted in Recommended ReadingAbout a month ago, I did a post on The China Game blog and the China Vortex blog, calling them “promising.” They have both passed this blog’s three month in existence rule for making our blogroll and their promise has been fulfilled. In my initial post on these two blogs, I said the following: Two… Continue Reading
Setting Up Production In China For SMEs
Posted in China BusinessNothing earth shattering here, but nice, really brief, and pretty accurate analysis on what it takes to set up production in China. And anyway, I feel I should run something good on my Seattle newspaper as a counter to my usual negative coverage. The “article” is actually a Q & A with Susan Schreter who… Continue Reading
China Restaurants And The Laowai Markup
Posted in China TravelVery helpful post over at the Lost Laowai Blog on how Chinese restaurants mark up their prices for foreigners. The post is entitled, “One Restaurant, Two Menus,” and it is on how the prices on the menus with an English (usually Chinglish) translation are oftentimes higher than on the strictly Chinese language menu: However, after… Continue Reading
Danone-Wahaha: An Update
Posted in Legal NewsThe China Business Law Blog has a nice update on the Danone Wahaha litigation around the world. The sense is Danone is winning in court and I cannot help but wonder if it is because it is spending more on lawyers. I do not know this to be the case, but the sense I get… Continue Reading
The Grape Wall Of China
Posted in Recommended ReadingAnyone interested in wine in China and/or China’s wine industry has to check out The Grape Wall of China blog. It just added eight writers, made up of “a mix of locals and expatriates working as wine distributors, makers, academics, educators and consultants in Beijing, Shanghai, Shanxi, Taipei and Hong Kong,” In addition to founder… Continue Reading
China Law Blog: The High School Edition
Posted in Good PeopleWhen we started this blog nearly two years ago, one of our main precepts was accessibility. In our very first post, we described where we saw ourselves fitting in among the China blogs, we stressed we wanted to be read by more than just lawyers, and we laid out our plans: There is even a… Continue Reading
Alibaba And China’s Rising Entrepreneurism
Posted in Recommended ReadingVery interesting article on Alibaba by Ellen Lee in the San Francisco Chronicle (h/t to the China Economic Review Blog). Article is entitled “Alibaba.com and the rise of entrepreneurial China,” and it details how Alibaba and China’s rising entreprenuerism impact China and the world. Check it out.
Foreign Investor LLCs In China: The Old New Law Is Still The Law
Posted in Legal NewsLeading law publisher Bowne is recommending a law journal article CLB’s own Steve Dickinson wrote at the onset of China’s new company law in a summary entitled New Law Governs Foreign Investors’ LLCs In China. The site very nicely summarizes Steve’s article, “Introduction To The New Company Law Of The People’s Republic Of China, from… Continue Reading
China’s New Labor Contract Law
Posted in Legal NewsVery well done and informative interview with CLB’s own Steve Dickinson over at Christine Lu’s always informative China Business Network. The takeaways are that if you arguably employ anyone in China you must have a written contract and an employee manual (both of which should usually be in Chinese) and “lax enforcement” is not an… Continue Reading
Hiring In China’s Legal Industry
Posted in Legal News“The seeds of our destiny are nurtured by the roots of our past.” Master Po (Kung Fu, Episode 7) I constantly receive emails and phone calls from college students, law students, and young lawyers seeking information on how to advance their China legal careers. Nearly all of them ask some variant of “what’s the most… Continue Reading
China Air (And Naval) Travel: Everybody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen, Part IV
Posted in Recommended ReadingThe always interesting Beijing Newspeak has a great post up on China’s recent air traffic delays right on the heels of its new air traffic control regulations nearly doubling airspace for civilian aircraft. The post is entitled, “Your flight is delayed. Why? Unspecified reasons,” and it does a great job of weaving in the role… Continue Reading
E-Waste Is China Bound And That Is Not An Entirely Good Thing
Posted in China BusinessNot sure why this is making the news all of a sudden, but two stories just out on how America’s technology waste adds to China’s pollution problem. First is an Associated Press story by Terence Chea, entitled, “America Ships Electronic Waste Overseas.” The story is that america’s recycled e-waste is going to places like China,… Continue Reading
China IT Outsourcing Evolving
Posted in Recommended ReadingInteresting and informative post, entitled, “China’s Software Outsourcing Industry Continues to Evolve,” over at the Go East-Outsourcing to China Blog. Post posits that China’s outsourcing industry is now entering its third phase, consisting of the following: The stage that we’re entering now is interesting for a number of reasons. Foremost among them is that the… Continue Reading
Finding The Right China Talent
Posted in China BusinessMy firm seems to have two kinds of clients when it comes to finding talent in China. Those at the beginning of the process who pronounce the exact kind of person they are going to hire and those farther into the process who vociferously complain about not being able to find that person. Kent Kedl… Continue Reading
Chinese Workers/US Torts — Did I Really Say That?
Posted in Legal NewsPulitzer winning reporter Loretta Tofani has written an article on Chinese factory workers suing US companies for injuries sustained in China. The article is entitled “US Bosses Sued: Victory could be big for Chinese laborers.” Call it the legal follow-up to Ms. Tofani’s superb seven-part series on the health and safety issues Chinese laborers face… Continue Reading
China’s New Anti Monopoly Law Explained. Well, Sort Of.
Posted in Legal NewsToronto attorney, Paul Jones, has an article seeking to explain China’s new anti-monopoly law. It is entitled, “China’s New Anti-Monopoly Law: An Economic Constitution For the New Market Economy,” and it describes the new law as “still a work in progress (h/t to China Business Law Blog). I second that emotion. I actually began my… Continue Reading
The China Model — A Must Read
Posted in Recommended ReadingExcellent, thought provoking, in depth article on China’s government and China’s future by Rowan Callick, Beijing-based China correspondent of The Australian newspaper (h/t to A China Journal) Most of the article deals with the shortcomings of the China model, but for me the money quote was that “Where China fails to match up, however, is… Continue Reading
Capturing China’s Middle Class Market — “Good Enough” Is The Good Way
Posted in Recommended ReadingInteresting WSJ article By Orit Gadiesh and Till Vestring of Bain & Company, “Capturing China’s Middle Market,” positing how to capture China’s fastest growing market segment with “good enough” brands: Historically, multinationals have focused on China’s premium market. But the playing field over the last few years has changed rapidly. Multinationals sticking with a premium-only… Continue Reading
China’s Toy Defects Ain’t All That: The China Goods Are All Right
Posted in China BusinessNew Reuters article (h/t to the always scintillating bezdomny ex patria blog) postulating that China’s toy problems are not really China’s problems at all “since the majority of problematic toys in fact come from other countries.” According to a study just out by Paul Beamish, professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business in London,… Continue Reading
Tampons As China Marketing Symbol
Posted in China BusinessFascinating post over at the relatively new The Yuan Also Rises blog (tied in with China International Business Magazine). The post is entitled “Why don’t Chinese women use tampons” and it serves as a good reminder of how and why China’s consumer market can be so wildly different from Western markets. The article posits six… Continue Reading
Beijing’s Bars Offer China Business Lesson. Sometimes A Martini . . . .
Posted in China BusinessInteresting post over at Beijing Boyce regarding a sudden change in ownership at Beijing’s Shooters bar: Announced unexpectedly on 11th November the ownership of Shooters has changed. Just over one year after setting up the business from scratch and turning the spot around from a struggling Russian / Dumpling restaurant into what we know and… Continue Reading
China’s Labor Union (ACFTU)
Posted in Recommended ReadingComment over at Beijing Newspeak led me to an article entitled, “China and the International Labour Movement.” which in turn led me to this more recent, equally interesting article entitled, “Organzing Wal Mart in China: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back for China’s Unions.” [pdf] Both arrticles are by Anita Chan, who is with the… Continue Reading
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