Shanghai Tan

With more and more westerners now coming to China for doing business, the term guanxi has earned new popularity as they all learn that the success of their endeavor very much depends on how good their guanxi is with their local business partner and local government.
At a time it was difficult to explain guanxi to [...]

When you become universally popular, you automatically reap the benefits of free publicity that normal people can’t buy, even with great amount of money, simply because you represent the icon of time. People would put your photo on mugs, on T-shirt, on books, on toys, etc. I won’t attempt to distinguish between popular and unpopular, [...]

When people think of Chin’a modernization, they think of the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower and the Pudong financial district, they think of Beijing’s upcoming hosting of 2008 Olympics Games, they think of the world’s highest railway of Tibet at 5000m altitudes, they think of the Three Gorges Dam, they think of the booming construction industry [...]

Two weeks ago I went to Hangzhou [杭州] with the intention to spend one whole day photographying the city’s famous attractions, such as the West Lake [西湖] and some famous tower pagodas. Unfortunalely for my laziness and lack of planning, I was not able to buy a return ticket ahead of time, so at the [...]

I must write to George W. Bush and Al Gore and Bill Gates about this… While the world is panicking about the scarcity and ever-increasing price of energy, all the sudden this little useless social networking site called Facebook is taking over the online world like a storm. The problem is that, if you add [...]