Day 37 – Home

February 19, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

My Blackberry Storm 2 from Verizon Wireless has been progressively crapping out on this trip.  It is not a good device, and the longer I have it, the less impressed I am.  In addition to the outrageous charges to receive calls – I practically had to hang up on a few clients to get them [...]

Days 32-36 – Wrapping it up

February 18, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Day 32 – After recovering from the party the night before, Adam Supernant and I pick up a couple of our clients for a shopping outing to Dongmen.  It is actually quite brisk – south China this time of year can go from the 80s to the 50s in one day – and neither of [...]

Day 31 – 恭喜发财 – PassageMaker’s Chinese New Year party!

February 15, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

恭喜发财, gōng xǐ fā cái, wishing you a prosperous new year!
More articles and weird stuff:

Toxic Linfen – regardless of Climategate, there is still room for commonsense pollution controls in developing nations
Think You Know China? Eight Things Foreigners Get Wrong
Interesting talk on Vested Outsourcing – not sure if I care for the new buzz word, but [...]

Days 27-30 – Plenty of hard work and plenty of visitors

February 15, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

I’ve already returned to the States a few days ago, but the last couple weeks in China were so hectic, I am filing these posts late.  Days 31-37 to come shortly.
Articles, articles, articles…

Chinese diplomat:  Ties with US deteriorated recently – no, really?
More from Reuters
This is just wrong – Chinese girl, 9, becomes one of world’s [...]

Days 15-26 – Pollution, street food, deadlines, Hong Kong and crossing the road in China

February 5, 2010 by whit · 2 Comments 

Our founder, Mike Bellamy, who evidently doesn’t have enough WORK TO DO posted the Rick Roll the other day under my name.  That was his hint that I should blog more often, so here goes.  Sorry for the Rick Roll.  Sorry for the absence.  And sorry in advance for the length of this post.
More interesting [...]

Day 14

January 19, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Day 14 – Tuesday – Some interesting China article links to kick things off:

Daring blogger tests the limits
Article with some interesting graphs on Chinese military spending
Article on Google
Power rationing in China
Why America and China Will Clash
Avatar banned in China
chinaSMACK – this is an awesome news aggregation site sent to me by Dave Learn – a [...]

Days 6-13 – Shanghai Hooters, Mao’s Revenge, and rotten cell phone companies

January 18, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Day 6 – Woke to steady rain after a fitful sleep.  The Chinese believe in sleeping on hard beds, as it is supposed to be good for you.  And when I say hard, I mean sheet of plywood hard.  And how having your hips so sore you can barely get out of the bed in [...]

Days 4-5

January 10, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Another quick note on Facebook being blocked in China, thanks to all of you who have commented on these blog posts, but I can’t reply.  Such is life behind the Great Firewall.  No YouTube either.  Sucks.
While I was writing yesterday’s post, I had a snack of the best dumplings in the world.  They are made [...]

Days 3-4

January 9, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

A note on these blog entries – if you are following this on Facebook (which is blocked rather effectively by the Great Firewall of China), if the photos don’t load properly go to my blog page – http://psschina.com/category/whits-china-business-blog/.
In yesterday’s post, I failed to include one very important photo of the single best vegetable dish in [...]

Days 1-3

January 8, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

This trip to China started in auspicious fashion.  I spent my last day with the family (wonderful time) and got everything packed the night before.  As is always the case, I travel light.  This is my luggage for a 5 week trip:

They don’t call it a “Chinese laundry” for nothing.  PassageMaker is a relaxed place, [...]

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