Never Try to Drink a Chinese Woman Under the Table - Plus Other Fun and Practical Tips for Doing Business in China and at Home
Never Drink a Chinese Woman Under the Table is a different kind of book about doing business in China, and it is done with humor. The Chinese command one of the world's largest economies yet routinely baffle foreigners who try to do business with them. Trying to drink a woman under the table is one of the MANY ways you can blow it when doing business with Asians. You can also get grey hair waiting for your menu to come at a banquet in a Chinese restaurant's private room. And do you really have to eat the ox tongue and tripe with roasted chili- garlic black beans? And why can't you get a glass of cold water? Richard Bradspies spent more than a decade as the Bank of China's top American in the US. He and PR pro J.D. Fox have authored a book about understanding the Chinese and other Asians in a business and cultural context.
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Never Try to Drink a Chinese Woman Under the Table - Plus Other Fun and Practical Tips for Doing Business in China and at Home
Never Drink a Chinese Woman Under the Table is a different kind of book about doing business in China, and it is done with humor. The Chinese command one of the world's largest economies yet routinely baffle foreigners who try to do business with them. Trying to drink a woman under the table is one of the MANY ways you can blow it when doing business with Asians. You can also get grey hair waiting for your menu to come at a banquet in a Chinese restaurant's private room. And do you really have to eat the ox tongue and tripe with roasted chili- garlic black beans? And why can't you get a glass of cold water? Richard Bradspies spent more than a decade as the Bank of China's top American in the US. He and PR pro J.D. Fox have authored a book about understanding the Chinese and other Asians in a business and cultural context.
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Never Try to Drink a Chinese Woman Under the Table - Plus Other Fun and Practical Tips for Doing Business in China and at Home

Never Try to Drink a Chinese Woman Under the Table - Plus Other Fun and Practical Tips for Doing Business in China and at Home

Never Try to Drink a Chinese Woman Under the Table - Plus Other Fun and Practical Tips for Doing Business in China and at Home
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Never Try to Drink a Chinese Woman Under the Table - Plus Other Fun and Practical Tips for Doing Business in China and at Home

Never Try to Drink a Chinese Woman Under the Table - Plus Other Fun and Practical Tips for Doing Business in China and at Home

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Never Drink a Chinese Woman Under the Table is a different kind of book about doing business in China, and it is done with humor. The Chinese command one of the world's largest economies yet routinely baffle foreigners who try to do business with them. Trying to drink a woman under the table is one of the MANY ways you can blow it when doing business with Asians. You can also get grey hair waiting for your menu to come at a banquet in a Chinese restaurant's private room. And do you really have to eat the ox tongue and tripe with roasted chili- garlic black beans? And why can't you get a glass of cold water? Richard Bradspies spent more than a decade as the Bank of China's top American in the US. He and PR pro J.D. Fox have authored a book about understanding the Chinese and other Asians in a business and cultural context.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781939521255
Publisher: Strategic Media Books
Publication date: 10/01/2014
Pages: 259
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Richard Bradspies is a Portland, Oregon-based 40-year veteran of international business. He spent eleven years as Deputy General Manager for the Bank of China the top American in the United States. He also worked for Dutch, French and German banks. J.D. Fox is a Manhattan-based writer and PR executive. His legal thriller, The Matriarchs, was published by Amazon in 2011.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1 Blending In: What to Expect Outside the Office

Food: Duck Blood Soup. Seriously?

Alcohol: Americans are Amateurs, the Chinese have gone Pro

Sex: Do It, But Don't Discuss It

Part 2 Your Chinese Colleagues: How They Think, Why They Keep to Themselves, How That's Changing

Generational Change: The Aging Revolutionaries, The Questioning Middle, The Start-Ups

Name-Brand Status: Let's Go Shopping!

Loss of Face: Where Did It Go?

Big Nose: More Than How You Look

Language: You Have a Choice (or Two)

Fear of Flight: The Passport Paradox

Going Solo Versus Group Think: Americans are Lone Wolves, The Chinese are Pack Animals

Part 3 The Corporate Environment: What to Expect Inside the Office

Climbing the Ladder: How High Can You Go?

Who's to Blame?: The Art of Consensus

The Office Rumor Mill: The Real Information Superhighway

Performance Appraisals: Better to Be an Idiot Than 10 Seconds Late

When Does "Yes": Actually Mean Yes?

Focus: Just Five Us What We Want!

Putting It Together: Telling You What We Told You

Bonus: Your Maiden Voyage to China

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