Barely nine months after China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, 2001, I sat at a U.S.-China Business Council luncheon in Beijing featuring U.K. journalist Joe Studwell speak on his book The China Dream: The Elusive Quest for the Greatest Untapped Market on Earth.
In 2000 she put together a book, China Chic, rich with striking photos and in its analysis of Chinese culture and fashion.
Five years ago there were five and now there are more than 20, says Mr Alden, who has just written a book called China in Africa.
In the ratio of price-to-book value China is, at 4.6, the second priciest, behind another country with a superheated economy: India, which trades at 4.9 times book.
In addition, stock prices of the big Chinese banks are relatively cheap: Bank of China trades at 1.4 times forward book value, and Agricultural Bank of China trades at 1.6 book value for fiscal year 2011, even though Bank of China is considered a better-run bank.
Older and wiser, he plans to take his time in writing the Hank Paulson China book.
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But whereas the Americans licensed this from book wholesalers, China did not have a comparable nationwide database.
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Their goal is to make available Espresso book machines throughout China and reprint Chinese books, English books, French books and others.
The German group already runs a book club in China and its Bol.com subsidiary is number three online after Dangdang and Joyo.com.
The difficulties I am facing in getting my book sold in China illustrate some key lessons one should keep in mind when navigating the China market.
Sinologist David Shambaugh sat down with Orville Schell of the Asia Society in New York this week to discuss his new book, China Goes Global.
Close on the heels of the launch of its e-book store in Brazil, Amazon announced the launch of its Kindle e-book store in China last Thursday.
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Washburn is turning the story to a book about golf in China, having followed Zhou from the courses to his wedding and even his remote home village.
Another China-model book was launched in April and debated at an expo-related forum in Shanghai.
Meanwhile, the gradual deregulation of China's book market raises hopes of a strategic alliance or outright sale.
Its construction order book is surpassed only by China's.
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If you still want to go to China after reading this book, you are ready to move on to the next book on the list.
Hoping to bring attention and help to players like Zhou, Washburn nevertheless insists his book -- titled "Par for China" -- is not just about golf but about the country seen through the sport.
China Merchants Bank's mortgage book grew by 70% in 2009.
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Figures quoted by the noted China-watcher James Mann in his book About Face showed that Japanese companies increased their share of many key Chinese markets at the expense of US and European rivals in the early 1990s.
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Not surprisingly, the differences between them and their American counterparts are vast and present both challenges and opportunities for global marketers. (In fact, the findings were so intriguing and vital to success in China that we decided to write a book.) What follows below are some of the key findings.
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The book argues that Western governments could do more to follow China's lead and develop stronger relationships between the state and technology companies.
The makings of internal demand are there--as veteran investment bank economist George Magnus notes in his new book about emerging markets, Uprising, India and not China has the highest household savings rate in Asia.
In a book to be published in November, Wu Jinglian, China's most respected economist, notes that until a decade ago provincial branches of commercial banks borrowed funds directly from provincial offices of the central bank and lent them to local customers.
However, in writing my newly-released book, The Chinese Dream, I traveled all over China and spoke to hundreds of people.
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