Chinese Rules: Mao’S Dog, Deng’s Cat, and Five Timeless Lessons for Understanding China - Couverture rigide

Clissold, Tim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0007590253 ISBN 13 : 9780007590254

Editeur : William Collins, 2014

Synopsis

From the author of the acclaimed 'Mr China' comes another rip-roaring adventure story - part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio - that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners understand China. In the twenty-first century, as China grows more confident, there's a hunger in the West to understand what makes this immense country tick. Tim Clissold has lived and worked there for more than two decades, and in Chinese Rules he draws on his experience to reveal secrets that Westerners can use to navigate through its cultural and political maze. Picking up where the international bestseller 'Mr China' left off, the gripping narrative chronicles Clissold's adventures with Chinese bureaucrats, factory owners and local bigwigs as he struggles to build a climate change business in China. He soon finds himself caught between the world's largest carbon emitter and the world's richest man, and his story is peppered with entertaining and enlightening anecdotes that highlight the absurdities and mysteries, but also the rewards, of doing business in China.Exploring key episodes in China's long political, military, and cultural past, Clissold outlines five key Chinese Rules that anyone can deploy on the ground with their modern Chinese counterparts. These Chinese Rules will equip foreigners not just to co-operate better with China but to compete better as well.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

From the author of the international bestseller Mr. China comes another rollicking ride through the slick mega-cities and industrial backwaters of twenty-first-century China—part adventure story, part erudite myth-buster, and part practical rule book to help Westerners win in China.

China's role as struggling underdog is now firmly a thing of the past. The world has tilted eastward in its orbit even as the West seems mired in self-doubt. Through living and working in China for more than two decades, Tim Clissold has uncovered stealth methods Westerners can use to straighten out complicated situations in China and achieve their own objectives.

Revealing the hidden logic that governs the Chinese business and political landscape, Clissold puts China's cultural, political, and military history into context and explains the mind-set that drives Chinese political and business leaders—a resource that has been sorely lacking in most books about doing business in China.

Here, with sharp observations and a deep appreciation for China's rich past, Clissold presents five rules anyone can use to deal effectively with modern Chinese counterparts. These include understanding that:

• China has its own set of rules that provide a unique pathway to success;
• the quest for stability overrides all others;
• in China, one should never attack directly;
• in solving problems, stick to practicalities and avoid arguments over theory;
• and knowing yourself and knowing the "other" will help you survive a hundred battles.

Combining exuberant storytelling, sly humor, and counterintuitive insights, Chinese Rules traces Clissold's latest adventures, providing an object lesson in the contradictions between reality and conventional belief that continue to make China a fascinating, perplexing, and irresistible destination for Westerners.

Revue de presse :

Praise for Mr. China: “Clissold’s memoir is an instant classic. Sharply observed, funny as hell. Indispensible.” (Time magazine)

“Delightful... this trenchant, immensely entertaining study in the contradictions of Chinese capitalism should be required reading.” (Fortune)

“An adventure tale. Clissold is a wonderful and compassionate narrator (with) a deep respect for the culture, language, and history.” (USA Today)

“One would be hard-pressed to find a serious Western investor in China who isn’t aware of Clissold’s eye-opening account.” (Forbes)

“Lots of Western businessmen have China war stories, but only Tim Clissold has written . . . this funny book.” (Newsweek)

“One of the wittiest, most compelling accounts of anything I’ve read in a long time. A terrific book.” (Tucker Carlson)

“A compelling account, related with sly humor and hard-earned wisdom.” (Library Journal)

“Hugely entertaining...Clissold loves China...but he also views it with clarity and no small amount of humor.” (Washington Post)

“A pragmatic application of good-sense peasant wisdom in negotiating big financial deals with the Chinese....Clissold’s deep knowledge of Chinese culture and language informs this useful work.” (Kirkus)

“Clissold’s advice is timely and may even be useful to those outside the business world as well as in.” (Publishers Weekly)

“The insights Clissold sheds on deal-making in China ultimately stem from an ability - born of years of experience and his fluency in Mandarin - to see any situation from a local counterparty’s viewpoint.” (Financial Times)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Collins
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0007590253
• ISBN 13: 9780007590254
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272