Arthur Kroeber “We’re going down from stupidly fast last year to really fast this year and just plain ordinary fast next year, which would be in the 8 to 9 percent range,” says Arthur Kroeber of Dragonomics, a Beijing consultancy to Reuters.In post-Olympic China the expected growth of the economyRead More →

Getty Images via Daylife The Beijing Olympics have ended and with mixed feelings (some happy, some sad) China is returning to business again. The world’s media will be turning to Barack Obama, who will have his finest moment very soon in Denver and the Paralympics will not be noted byRead More →

Wikipedia Today we have been adding on request some country-specific categories, like the sino-Japanese relations. We did have already a section on ‘international relations’, but with some exceptions (like William Overholt) that description was too vague, we discovered. We have been adding section on Africa, the USA, India and Japan.EuropeRead More →

Zhang Lijia Our best-seller author Zhang Lijia is going to tour Australia to promote her book “Socialism is Great!” and is treating the domestic media with some great interviews.After ten years on the Chinese factory floor and a study in Great Britain, Zhang saw back in China the start ofRead More →

Stephane Garelli Stephane Garelli, director of the IMD World Competitive Center and professor at IMD and Lausanne University, has joined the China Speakers Bureau as a speaker.Each year economists and policy makers watch IMD in Lausanne as his center announces the annual ranking of the competitiveness of countries in theRead More →

Shaun Rein The China Speakers Bureau is only for a bit more than a month online, so getting a top-10 of most-sought-speakers is a bit of a tricky thing. Not all of our speakers have been online for the whole month and still quite a few are still waiting toRead More →

Kaiser Kuo Sobbing Chinese have killed one global misconception about the country, the supposed lack of emotions they display, says Kaiser Kuo in an interview with Reuters. “Liu Xiang’s coach sobs uncontrollably on television after China’s national hero hobbles out of the hurdles. Spectators weep in the stands. “Four womenRead More →

via Wikipedia At the China Speakers Bureau we are going to open up for new speakers again. Getting assignments in is our priority, but we also do not want to keep our gates closed for qualified speakers, as we have done in the recent past.Do note our basic requirements though.Read More →

Zhang Lijia When people compare the China Daily of twenty years ago with the Chinese English-language publication of today, they might think that things have improved. They might have, but they are still not well.Jeremy Goldkorn‘s Danwei points at an article by the Chinese author Zhang Lijia, where she defendsRead More →

Image via Wikipedia In my quest for interesting new angles and possible speakers for the China Speakers Bureau I have started to read a book I received yesterday from the publisher Wiley “China’s Creative Imperative: How Creativity is Transforming Society and Business in China” by Kunal Sinha, working for Ogilvy,Read More →

Zhang Lijia Celebrity author Zhang Lijia expresses in the Korea Times her amazement about the ignorance on China she noted when she was on a recent book tour in the United States, and tells why she support the Beijing Olympics: Zhang Lijia, author of the New York Times bestseller, “SocialismRead More →

Kaiser Kuo The Beijing Olympics will be the first one facing a full scale web2.0 exposure and Ogilviy’s new media guru Kaiser Kuo looks at his weblog at the dilemma’s: There’s ample irony, and for some perhaps a certain poetic justice, in this — that the capital city of aRead More →