Starbucks Guomao 2 Tinny jazz, burnt coffee 1149 hrs. Amid all the debate about China's supposed "lead" in green technologies, it is worthwhile reading this article from Matt Forney and Arthur Kroeber from the Wall Street Journal last fall, wherein...
China Construction Bank China World Tower 2, Beijing Watching the pre-holiday ATM rush 1129 hrs. In the face of a growing herd of commentators foretelling the rise of China, Niall Ferguson has identified what he believes to be the six...
Third Ring Road, Beijing The city is beginning to empty 1033 hrs. I enjoy reading Christopher Hitchens' work, even though he and I disagree rather frequently. Reading some of his high-handed dismissals of people who do not share his views...
In the Hutong Last Working Day Before CNY 1448 hrs. The matter of Google in China is a growing hairball of issues that will, undoubtedly, become the subject of a book one day. Rather than try to take on the...
Starbucks, China World Tower 2, Beijing In the course of human events 1001 hrs. Contemplating the irrational messiness of China's corporate landscape, investment bankers around the world must salivate in anticipation of the fees and bonuses that will be theirs...
Jingmi Road, Inbound The Calm before the Snow 0919 hrs. In an excellent piece of Wall Street Journal analysis on Toyota's mishandling of its quality recall, Jeff Kingston points out a host of problems that routinely turn otherwise outstanding Japanese...
Peter's Tex-Mex Ex-Post Hospital 1331 hrs. In my column in Media magazine in December I forswore the practice of knocking the unsophisticated way in which many Chinese companies conduct marketing. Shanzhai Marketing, I noted, was for many companies better than...
In the Hutong Do Marketers Dream of Sheepvertising? 1553 hrs. When I wrote in Media in October about Tengzhong acquiring Hummer, GM's suburban assault vehicle marque, I noted that in addition to the challenge of developing new vehicles and upgrading...
In the Hutong Sitting on the heater 0935 hrs. Benjamin Li starts the year off with a quick look at the prospects for Asian brands in a thought-provoking piece in Media Asia. (Tip of the Silicon hat to Casper Oppenhuis...
In the Hutong The Semi-Sabbatical Beings 1243 hrs. A lot of excellent thinking - and a lot of polemic tripe - has been written in response to Google uberkounsel David Drummond's blog post last week announcing Google's intention to stop...
Beijing Airport Expressway It's Quiet...too quiet 0932 hrs. I have been engaged in the study of the Second World War on an off-and-on basis since I was about eleven. As a part of that ongoing effort, I have just finished...
Somewhere above Orchard Road Dude looks like a lady 2158 hrs. The Economist Foreign Editor Edward Carr wrote a paean to the polymath in the Autumn issue of More Intelligent Life that sounded like a eulogy. Carr believes - with...
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