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Published On: Mar 16, 2007 11:12 AM
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Published On: Mar 16, 2007 11:12 AM
Welcome to the Peking Review
Beijing
This publication is designed as a cure for
information overload.
Google lists 1.8 billion entries, 3.5 million images, and 155,000 current news articles about China as of this writing. Analysis estimates that there are as many as 33 million Chinese blogs, and an untold number of English blogs about China. Amazon, bless them, lists over 37,000 books in print about this little tiny country. And none of this counts the resources that give what I call indirect insight into what is happening here. Nor does it count the scores of consultancies, law firms, agencies, reps-for-hire, middle-men, research houses, and guanxi-masters, all of whom add to the monstrous information overload problem about China.
For years I've marveled privately (and sometimes publicly in my blog Silicon Hutong) at how otherwise intelligent businessmen can walk into this country and stroll right into the traps that should be obvious. I've come to realize that against a huge and growing universe of information about this place - some of it right, a lot of it really, really wrong - it's a really tough place to get your bearings.
This publication is an effort to make getting your bearings - and keeping them - a lot easier.
The Peking Review will focus on something I am frequently asked to do - and something I find myself doing even when not asked, and that is recommending resources (books, websites, articles, posts, blogs, movies, television programs, people, services) that will genuinely HELP people figure out how to do business here in China. My role will be to act as a filter, not slamming the "bad" resources, but identifying the good ones and isolating the good that can be pulled out of the others.
Businesspeople have plenty of facts. Even a lot of knowledge. But a little knowledge in China is more of a liability than an asset.
So we'll focus on bringing you insight.
Let us know how we're doing.
Google lists 1.8 billion entries, 3.5 million images, and 155,000 current news articles about China as of this writing. Analysis estimates that there are as many as 33 million Chinese blogs, and an untold number of English blogs about China. Amazon, bless them, lists over 37,000 books in print about this little tiny country. And none of this counts the resources that give what I call indirect insight into what is happening here. Nor does it count the scores of consultancies, law firms, agencies, reps-for-hire, middle-men, research houses, and guanxi-masters, all of whom add to the monstrous information overload problem about China.
For years I've marveled privately (and sometimes publicly in my blog Silicon Hutong) at how otherwise intelligent businessmen can walk into this country and stroll right into the traps that should be obvious. I've come to realize that against a huge and growing universe of information about this place - some of it right, a lot of it really, really wrong - it's a really tough place to get your bearings.
This publication is an effort to make getting your bearings - and keeping them - a lot easier.
The Peking Review will focus on something I am frequently asked to do - and something I find myself doing even when not asked, and that is recommending resources (books, websites, articles, posts, blogs, movies, television programs, people, services) that will genuinely HELP people figure out how to do business here in China. My role will be to act as a filter, not slamming the "bad" resources, but identifying the good ones and isolating the good that can be pulled out of the others.
Businesspeople have plenty of facts. Even a lot of knowledge. But a little knowledge in China is more of a liability than an asset.
So we'll focus on bringing you insight.
Let us know how we're doing.
Posted: Sat - May 6, 2006 at 11:15 PM