While I am not a lawyer and have very little interest in business, I nevertheless love reading Dan Harris’ China Law Blog. Dan is a tireless blogger who always manages to make the most mundane issues of legal prudence and China business babble interesting to the non-business person. Maybe I just like to fantasize about the road not taken, if only I had decided to study law and not, say, 19th century China. Would spending my days reading legal briefs be more interesting than deciphering inter-office memos from the 1870s? Thinking a bit more (and knowing my temperament) probably not…but I bet I’d be closer to owning a nice boat.
Over the weekend, Dan blogged about this article (from China Market Access Blog) and how being a “good friend” to China is important for your business. The original post, by Jason Patent, is based on a talk by Dr. James Chan. The advice (via Chan via Patent and via Dan Harris) is this:
There is one thing many Westerners don’t think about when they walk into China. What the Chinese people really want from Westerners is “acceptance.” If you want to sell anything to the Chinese or, for that matter, build