Recently I was amused by a conversation I overheard while waiting for my Chinese takeout.
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Several years ago, I took a group of my Chinese managers to the United States for a week-long series of meetings.
My Chinese journey is like many readers: still evolving, still learning, still meeting new people and trying to understand what is happening.
Proof of the lesson my Chinese gurus are teaching me: China is fast becoming a consumer economy as well as an export machine.
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And I am very sorry that my Chinese is not as good as your English, but I am looking forward to this chance to have a dialogue.
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Worried that the TSA would confiscate her cremated remains from my carry-on, I packed the urn containing my mother's ashes into a suitcase filled with gifts for my Chinese relatives and entrusted the lot to United Airlines.
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Google, for example, was judged by my Chinese observers to have originated by building upon the prior search-engine innovations of others, but then, as the arrow indicates, has subsequently grown through mastering the ability to both create and capture its own value.
Last night ( New York time), my latest Chinese Wall Street Journal article was published about the most recent Muddy Waters report targeting Focus Media.
Many people have asked me for my impressions of Chinese tech companies after my trip over there last month to visit a dozen technology companies.
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"Kurosawa tells me to keep my own Chinese character and style, " while embracing the outside world, wrote director Zhang Yimou in a recent Time magazine appreciation.
Both my parents were Chinese, but I couldn't understand a word these relatives were saying growing up in California, I was so determined to be American that I refused to attend Chinese language school, and I didn't pick it up from my parents' conversations.
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While the Chinese middle class (see my definition of the Chinese middle class) will alter the global economy in the years ahead, there are obstacles to Chinese consumers increasing their spending.
Although I profiled Jack Ma in my book The Chinese Dream, it was the first time I heard him in person giving a public speech.
In my book The Chinese Dream, I urge people in the West to see the differences between China and the West as complementary rather than contradictory.
Acid flowed back into my brain, and I could see creatures moving in the Chinese landscape of my bedspread.
My communications with the Chinese have been very consistent on this issue.
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My first example was the Chinese near monopoly on the production of rare earths.
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My social calendar in the Chinese Pamirs was still relatively empty.
My own recent experiences with Chinese companies have forced me to add an additional reason: sending kids to United States public elementary schools.
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We've inherited Chinese skills - my family came from the mainland.
Our correspondent says that, according to one well-known Chinese songwriter, My Heart Will Go On is one of two English songs that are well known in China.
In part, Guan's popularity lies in a pragmatism not usually associated with the avant-garde: "After one year in Australia, I realized that many of my friends were sticking to Chinese ways, " he says.
Since my family couldn't understand Chinese, I thought we were going to be arrested.
Even after finished the movie I asked my assistant (my assistant is American-born Chinese), I said, Hey what do you think?
Deacon takes his guiding idea from one of my favourite chapters of a classic Chinese philosophical text from the fourth century B.
Since my family couldn't speak Chinese, I had to guide them, somehow, through more than 2, 000 miles in China and then into Southeast Asia.
My thesis was as follows: Chinese companies looking to buy American companies are usually looking for a valuable technology or commodity or, to a much lesser extent, a strong brand name.
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