Book Share: China Business Guide 2009

China Business Guide 2009 is the definite guide to doing business in China. It is an essential tool for companies looking to enter or grow in the growing China market.

Here in one compact guidebook are an astounding number of facts, figures, overviews, foreign investment reports, analyses & expert reports, maps and data -- all of immense help to those planning to do business in China, travel to China or set up permanently in this dynamic nation.

Featuring:

• In-depth Industry overviews written by experts covering every key sector of the economy with the most up-to-date statistics and charts
• Over 100 destinations, with useful information, maps, economics statistics, industrial parks, major hotels, websites, restaurants, bar, and hospitals
• Historical data to provide context
• Information service providers that can help you set up your business: logistics firms, property agents, headhunters and more
• Invaluable tips on getting along with and impressing Chinese partners
• 2009 preview of China's economy
• A Chinese language guide for a crash course in Mandarin

Book Share: A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy

Includes a Foreword by Joel L. Naroff, PhD,

President, Naroff Economic Advisors, Inc.
Chief Economist, Commerce Bank

"Over the past century, Americans' images of China have fluctuated wildly from victim, to heroic fighter, to Communist fanatic. We have loved them and feared them. And now, as Sara Bongiorni shows in vivid personal terms, we are in a new phase where it is a little of both. China has become an economic giant that can step on our toes, but that we must embrace."
—John Maxwell Hamilton, Dean and Hopkins P. Breazeale Foundation Professor Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University

"When the writer resolves to forgo Chinese imports for one year, she leads her lively family in a fascinating experiment that requires surprising feats of will power and ingenuity. The family's adventure through the maze of modern America's consumer life is both thought provoking and delightful to read. Those little 'Made in China' labels will never seem the same again."
—Mark Fabiani, former White House special counsel and media/political consultant

"Breaking up is indeed hard to do, as Sara Bongiorni proves in this winning memoir of her household's one-year boycott of Chinese products. Equal parts Erma Bombeck and economics, A Year Without 'Made in China' is that lively miracle—a crash course in globalization that is also consummately entertaining."
—Danny Heitman, columnist for The Advocate (Baton Rouge)

"A funny and engaging story about one family's experiment in our global economy. The Bongiorni family does without sneakers, sunglasses, and printer cartridges, but develops a dogged creativity and much needed sense of humor. The myriad moral complexities in the relationship between American consumers and Chinese factory are evident in each shopping trip."
—Pietra Rivoli, PhD, Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University and author, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy

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