Shanghai Tan

Did you know? By 2010, India will surpass Japan in purchasing power parity By 2020, China will surpass the U.S. in purchasing power parity By 2041, India’s economy will be twice as big as Japan’s By 2041, China will become the world’s largest economy Asians comprise only 5% of the U.S population, but … 15% [...]

It was another bloody Sunday just passed, or black Monday if you ran out of blood at Sunday, that brought the US and world financial markets in really deep deep shit. One would expect that the big bosses at Wall Street, with an army of financial experts, tons of Ph.D theories and algorithms, and unlimited [...]

坐在家楼下的星巴克边喝咖啡边看《摄影之友》时，看到外面两个小子在派广告卡。过一阵子后他们坐下来休息，有位看上去像他们老大的老头子竟然给他们烟抽，看他们老少一起抽烟实在有趣，可惜当时没有相机，只能用手机把场景拍下来。后来看到他们还在那边混，赶紧回家拿相机，不久之后又看到那老头子给小孩抽烟，可是小孩却拒绝了。可怜呀，小小年纪就要出来混啦！ Old man offering cigarette to young boy

When we were the Sick Man of Asia, we were called The ‘Yellow Peril’…… When we are billed to be the next Superpower, we are called ‘The Threat’…… When we closed our doors, you smuggled drugs (Opium, etc….) to open markets……. When we embrace Free Trade, You blame us for taking away your jobs……. When [...]

I like to read the blog of Mr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a retired IBM senior VP that I admire tremendously for his technical leadership as well as business and social observations. In his blog, I like his style of putting things in plain English, he doesn’t pretend to know everything and didn’t try to answer all [...]

While some nations¹ fight against the extinction of their language, such as l’Office québécois de la langue française who fight desperately for preserving French usage in Québec; other nations fight for preserving the quality of their language, such as the Plain English Compaign organism at UK, founded at 1979. It is understandable that the English [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]