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The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me.

Tom Carter
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Operating in the interstices of communist China society was at once exhilarating and uncertain. There were no rules. Or rather, there was only one rule: that nothing is allowed. But the corollary, which reveals the true genius of China’s love of the grey – in contrast to the black and white of the West – is that everything is possible. Nothing is allowed but everything is possible. It’s just a matter of finding the right way to explain what you’re doing.

Graham Earnshaw, Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
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Somewhere along the line, Made in China began to sound like a bargain. (...) When an importer told a retail buyer that an item was quoted at 65¢ and made in the USA, the buyer figured it could be purchased somewhere cheaper. When the same product was quoted at 65¢ and was said to have been made in China the buyer figured it could not be found for any less.

Paul Midler, Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game
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China is a political beast, with the Party at its heart, and the importance of political and regulatory due diligence cannot be overstated.

Jeremy Gordon, Risky Business In China. A Guide To Due Diligence
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When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it.

Larry Herzberg, China Survival Guide: How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps
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A very focused Chinese government, with firm, long-term social and economic goals, and an increasingly assertive international voice, is feeling more pressure from the Chinese dreamers, and is putting more pressure on foreign business interests. The foreign multinationals have their purposes, but also feed resentment that so much of China’s hard work results in easy profits for foreign brands and foreign shareholders. This new reality requires foreign firms to pay much more attention to the social context, and to ensure that they can manage the increased political and regulatory risk. From "Risky Business in China" (Palgrave, September 2014)

Jeremy Gordon
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Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

Jan Wong, Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
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I suggest that the Western impact, at least in nineteenth-century China, was overstated (and misstated) by an earlier generation of American historians. An especially egregious example of this, I argue, was American treatment of the Opium War, the objective importance of which was not nearly so great as we—and an almost unanimous corps of Chinese historians—have imagined.

Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
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For Americans, the car is the American way. Jay Gatsby roars through capitalism, individual freedom, and the good life. For China, the train is the metaphor. Everyone's on board, there's no chance to steer, and it's clickety-clack to collectivism's dreams.

Mei Fong, One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
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In addition, historical interpretations of this period in China have been shaped by Karl Marx's writings on this subject. Despite his anti-imperialist stance, Marx often uses racist expressions, such as "barbarous"and "hereditary stupidity," to describe Chinese culture and people.

Tonglin Lu, Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China
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