China is an opportunity, an enigma and a source of ongoing exploration, never ending, always changing
Professor Ilan Alon, Petters Chair of International Business, Executive Director of Rollins-China Center
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With the acceleration in the globalisation, China and India will become the "World Factory" and the "World Office"
Professor Dash Wu, Director of RiskChina Research Center University of Toronto, Canada
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China is not a Golden Xanadu in a bed of roses
Andrew Leung, Founder and Chairman, Andrew Leung International Consultants Limited, London
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What will happen if China runs out of water?
John Gittings, Writer on China and world affairs
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If you can't hold chopsticks you will not starve in China, but if you don't understand the way Chinese are behaving, you are heading for a failure
Mona Chung, Lecturer, Faculty of Law and Business, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Americans must think of China as an opportunity, not a threat
Professor John L. Graham, Professor of Marketing and International Business at the Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, Co-Author of the Best Seller: "China Now: Doing Business in the World's Most Dynamic Market"
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Who would have known that, in a span of 25 years, a developing nation such as China has produced 300,000 millionaires!
Joe Y. Eng, President of Eng Communications Associates and Co-Author of the excellent book "CHINA BUSINESS 20/20 Insight"
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The Big untold story of China's development is "why"
Jihong Sanderson, Executive Director, CRC (Center for Research on Chinese & American Strategic Cooperation), Author of the Best Seller: ""Next Step, the Options for Chinese Firms Going Global" has been published in Chinese."
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Editors' Selections Section

China: A Player or Bystander in the Global E-economy
by. Dan Ben-Canaan
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Strategic use of e-commerce by SMEs in China: A Picture of Best practice from Shenzen Special Economic Zone
by Guangqian Peng, Emiel Wubben, Harry Bremmers
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"Pushing the String"- Why the US strategy for improving China's IPR Enforcement can't work
by Jihong Sanderson
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How Technology and Globalisation are driving China in the 21st Century
by Andrew K P Leung
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Insights in China's companies "going Global
by Cora Jungbluth, M. A.
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Moving from Open Door to the GLOBAL: China goes on the world stage
by Paola Bellabona and Francesca Spigarelli
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Cooperative Initiatives and Democratic Development in Chinese Countryside
by Yang Chen
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The Plasticity of China's Political and Economic Institutions and Implications for International Investors
by Tailan Chi
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The Historical and Cultural Contexts of Chinese Language
by Wang Ping
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An Introduction to EUPIC: EU-China Matchmaking
by By Segree Dai and Alexander Ditchfield
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A Joint EU-China Roadmap for Mobile and Digital Convergence
by Xiaofeng Ma
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China-UK Business Idea Competition
by Yu Xiong
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Defining EU FDI Deflection between China and the CEECs
Dr. Xiaojun Wei
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Introduction to China - UK: Connections through Culture (CtC)
British Council
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Definition and Sources of Innovation in Europe and Asia - A Matter of Perspective?
Alexander Brem
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China Insights Today on "Guanxi" Section

What managers need to know about social connections and business in China
by Prof. Patricia Ordonez de Pablos and Miltiadis D. Lytras
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Getting To Dui: help and hindrance from commentators
by G. D. Donleavy
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How "Guanxi" came into being
by Xinxin Fang
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Guanxi and Information Technologies in the Chinese Inter-organizational System
by Liang-Hung Lin
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Does Guanxi really matter in the workplace in China?
by Wei-ping WU
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Top executives' directorate networks and business value creation in Taiwan
by Chaur-Shiuh Young
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Chinese Guanxi: what is it?
by Zhenzhong Ma
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High-tech industrial parks in China - Introduction to the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park
by Chih-Cheng Lin & Zheng Ma
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Nanotechnology Development in China
by Jun-You Lin
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Longitudinal Innovation Development in China from 1979 to 2006 year
by Chun-Yao Tseng
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Connections between Types of Innovation, Types of Organizational Change and Levels of Learning: A Study of Chinese Organizations
by Ruth Alas and Wei Sun
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Chinese Culture challenges to expatriates in Hotel Industry
by Dr. Wei Chen and Mikhail Myasin
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The influence of institutional framework and corporate culture on employees' work related goals: an exploratory study of china
by Marjaana Gunkel and Birgitta Wolff and Edward J. Lusk
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The Nature of Chinese Collective Values: Formation and Evolution
by MO Pak Hung
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Dynamics of Work-related Values in Chinese Organizations
by Ruth Alas, Wei Sun and Jaan Ennulo
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Decision making delegation: How effective is this practice among Chinese managers?
by Therese A Joiner, Victoria University,Jerome Choy
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Intercultural Re-entry Experience of Chinese managers
by Aidan Kelly,Yan Zhang and Xiaojun Wei
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Sector Analysis / Foreign Firms in China Section

Letter from Editors: We made it with your Help...A great thank you from the bottom of our hearts...

Dear Readers,

We are happy you decide to join CHINA INSIGHTS TODAY in this challeging project and we would like to thank you for your interest and support. Analyzing publications about China, we realised of a critical gap in publications related to Business and Management in China: on the one hand, most of magazines only offer articles and news about business, technology and innovation; on the other hand, the few existing academic journals on China are limited to very specific topics and the content of papers is not easily understandable by all readers, many times requiring a good prior knowledge of the topic. Additionally there is an increasing interest from EU academics, companies, governments, universities, institutions and other organizations to develop contacts and collaborations with China and viceversa.We thought that offering a meeting point for Academics, Companies, Governments, Universities and other Institutions from European Union and China would be an interesting idea to develop collaboration opportunities at academic, business and institutional level respectively as well as broading our knowledge and insights about our cultures.Also widening the range of topics to include chinese language, corporate social responsability, enviromental issues, finance, government initiatives, information technologies, logistics, marketing, medicine, tourism, science, nanotechnology, culture and other key issues would be value adding.Having this in mind, and with the valuable support of colleagues and institutions from Mainland China, Hong Kong (SAR), Macao (SAR), Taiwan province and EU, we proposed CHINA INSIGHTS TODAY PUBLISHING to develop an innovative magazine, offering Interviews with key people in China world, Articles (written by leading academics, businessmen and people involved in EU-China business cooperation), the Red Gate Corner (a matching point for academic, companies and institutions from China and EU) News Briefs, China Business Directory, Events and more sections. China Insights Today has an Advisory Board formed by an international network of experts who have agreed to give meaningful advice on a regular basis in many different areas: business, culture, information technologies, international collaboration, medicine, science, technology, tourism and other topics for China. China Insights Today will launch soon the Supplements "China Insights Today on Tourism", "China Insights Today on Hotels & Spas", "China Insights Today in Fashion" and "China Insights Today on Casinos"covering Mainland China, Hong Kong (SAR), Macao (SAR) and Taiwan province. Additionally we will also launch a new series of three Supplements on collaborations with China: "China Insights Today on China-EU", "China Insights Today on China-Arab" and "China Insights Today on China- Latin America". Finally, we would like to invite you to share with us your CHINA INSIGHTS TODAY. We will be delighted to hear from you, your comments about the magazine and supplements and suggestions.

Thank you
Patricia Ordonez de Pablos and

Miltiadis D. Lytras, Editors