Doing Business with China

by Paul Leppert

Overview

Global Business Series is designed to reduce anxiety and ease the process of doing business abroad. Though each book concerns a different country, they all follow the same general format by describing how climates and geography shape unique cultures, which are perpetuated through insidious, subconscious imprinting of children by the family and school.

Provides an understanding of how foreign cultures dominate and permeate foreign economies, politics, and business, vital for negotiating and managing abroad. The books in Global Business Series do more than show how to make business use of an understanding of foreign cultures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780875730455
Publisher:	Jain Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/28/1994
Series:	Global Business Series
Edition description:	JAIN PUBLISHING COMPANY
Pages:	166
Sales rank:	1,109,884
Product dimensions:	5.55(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

Editorial Reviews

Quanyu et al. give us a practical guidebook that addresses a wide range of people skills necessary to have successful business relations with the Chinese. Through the interplay of both historical and present-day social factors, the authors present 11 chapters of functional information pertinent to dealing with the Chinese. The first half of the book considers the cultural perspective; the second half specifically provides pointers about direct human behavior skills such as friendship and associations, social situations, taboos, negotiation, and the importance of banquets, gift giving, and accepting presents. Leppert's work also considers doing business with the Chinese but takes more of a political and economic approach. Drawing from his experiences living and consulting in the Far East, he covers cultural issues; analyzes economics and business; presents personal experience regarding travel, living, and learning; and gives useful addresses and additional readings. These timely volumes provide helpful material to anyone interested in doing business in China. Although their primary audience is Western businesspeople, anyone traveling to China for any purpose should find them valuable.-Joseph W. Leonard, Miami Univ., Oxford, Ohio

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