© madtpt Life in Shanghai is what you make it. Most big cities are like that. If you let it, a job in most cities will eat your life. If you can set clear boundaries between what's professional and what's personal you can maintain the balance in your life - do a job well and still have time for some sort of private existence. Sometimes your professional life and personal life do manage to overlap, though. And that can be okay. I recently needed ...

I have received the following announcement from the International Institute for Environment and Development: Dear Colleagues, We are currently advertising for a new Senior Researcher position to work on China. The post holder will join the Group which best suits...

Here's the press release from Asia Catalyst: (Gejiu, China, March 9, 2010) -- Asia Catalyst is proud to announce the “public beta” launch of its Asian AIDS Law Database. The database is a free, user-friendly resource, searchable in Chinese and...

That's the headline for an amusing post on the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time Report, quoting various remarks made by delegates at the current NPC session and captured on tape (well, captured on digital recorder, more likely). According to...

© BenBenW It's easy in the investment world to think of China as one big business opportunity. But if you actually get to go to China, remember to budget a little time for seeing the place. Because China is much more than a business opportunity. It is a cradle of civilization filled with wonders, both natural and manmade. A friend of mine was able to spend a couple of days touring China as part of a small delegation of business people from his state. ...

Hong Kong Remains at the Epicenter for Venture Deals China Venture News Hong Kong Venture Capital Association's chairman Vincent Chan, and the managing director of JAFCO Asia, maintains that the gateway to China is still at the epicenter for venture capital ...

The Dutch sinologist Prof. Stefan Landsberger has amassed a huge collection of Chinese propaganda posters. Check out the law-related material here. Particularly quaint is the picture of the upright official turning down a bribe of two bottles of liquor and...

The materials for the above conference in honor of Jerome Cohen's 80th birthday, held on Feb. 19th, 2010 at George Washington University Law School (co-sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center), are now available on line at the conference web site:...

The above conference was held on Feb. 25th, 2009. Here's the conference web site; there's a program and video recording available there.

Here's a rough translation of a remarkable recent speech by Jiang Ping. The translator has declined credit. China's Rule of Law is in Full Retreat February 21, 2010 Attending today's lunch and hearing so much praise makes me feel very...

I was recently invited to write some com...

As Prof. Cohen, one of the founders of Chinese law studies in the United States, will be celebrating his 80th birthday this July 1st, the Chinese law community has been planning various events in his honor. Most recently, on Feb....

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Is Not a Fable in China China Venture News Everyone's talking but no one's listening. Yahoo's 1 billion dollar 40 percent stake in Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce firm does not illustrate that a Net bubble ...

From a recent article celebrating the 12...

Feng Zhenghu, the Chinese human rights activist who camped out at Narita Airport in Tokyo for over three months to protest the refusal of Chinese authorities to allow him back to China, has returned to Shanghai. Here's the Washington Post...

I came across an excellent example of marketing a product in China. The story interests me both as a a China geek and an educator. The product involved is virtual world software designed help Chinese school kids learn English. Educational gaming is, of course, big business. A company called 8D World is using the concept to teach English to kids in China. Their virtual world (Wiz World Online) requires participants to properly pronounce English words to get points in a virtual game. ...