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A Western Woman In China....Sex, Sex, Sex????!!!!

Posted on August 17, 2009
Not me, of course. But Gina in Shanghai, who on her blog, Gina in Shanghai, has written a very thought provoking piece, entitled, "Peter Hessler and laowai nuzi," on how Western women are viewed in China (h/t China Beat). To grossly summarize, Chinese view Western women to be like the women in "Sex in the City...

Representative Offices In China. Things Just Got More Difficult/Expensive.....

Posted on August 17, 2009
My wildly unscientific observations tell me that about nine out of ten companies that go into China legally end up succeeding. My wildly unscientific observations also tell me that about eight out of ten companies that go into China illegally end up failing within a couple of years...

Business Taxes In China. Feels Just Like Home.

Posted on August 17, 2009
Ernst & Young is out with a very informative online publication on indirect taxes in China (h/t All Roads). The publication is entitled, "Navigating Chinese Indirect Taxes," and it provides a great overview of these taxes and how they can, and almost certainly will, impact your China business...

An "American" Law School In China. Explanations Sought.

Posted on August 16, 2009
My tiny firm must receive at least ten resumes every day. About a third of these come from students who, even in the best of of times, would likely never be hired as a law firm associate. Go ahead and get mad at me if you want, but those who are in the bottom half of the class from fourth tier ranked or unaccredited law schools are just not going to get hired by a...

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China Retail As Piracy Prevention.

Posted on August 14, 2009
One of the things I love about being a lawyer is what I learn from clients. I recently started working with a company that makes a high end consumer good. In the US, this company sells its products to high end retail outlets, including department stores...

Got A China Criminal Matter. I'll Get Barack....

Posted on August 14, 2009
One of the interesting things about the exposure that comes from this blog is that my firm gets contacted by all sorts of people with China law problems. This is mostly good because it can lead to real work. This is also good because even when it does not lead to real work, it provides great blog fodder...

China's Labor Laws. Find Me That Company.

Posted on August 13, 2009
Spoke with a reporter last week regarding China's labor laws. The conversation went sorta like this: Reporter: I want your views on how enforcement of China's labor laws is holding up despite the economic downturn. I am also wondering how representative are the stories we've all heard of one bad-egg employee winning a huge lawsuit against a foreign company that is basically in full compliance with the labor laws, with every other employee running to...

China Guest Blogger Sought. Must Read AND Understand WTO Rulings.

Posted on August 13, 2009
Got an email today from a leading finance magazine asking me whether the World Trade Organization's (WTO) ruling today "against" China meant "piracy is now dead in China." I told him I would review it, figure out the answer to his question, then call him...

The WTO's China Video/Media Ruling. Shedding Some Light....

Posted on August 13, 2009
Yesterday, I wrote how it was too early to proclaim repurcussions from the WTO ruling on foreign media in China. It is still too early and I still know too little, but I have seen a few things which shed a bit of light. The first is Businesweek's Eye on Asia post on the ruling, entitled, "Hollywood's Small WTO Victory Over China," in which Bruce Eichorn questions whether the ruling is as big a deal...

Cross Cultural Dating -- China Style.

Posted on August 13, 2009
I normally hate this sort of thing, but "Steve" over at Fool's Mountain does such a great job with it, I cannot resist posting on it. The post is entitled, "Cross Cultural Dating," but I think it goes way beyond that and that is my point. The post does a great job explaining the need to be sensitive to other cultures and the advice given definitely translates to the business world and even to dealing...

China's Migrant Workers. The Revolution Will Have To Wait.

Posted on August 13, 2009
Robert D. O'Brien (have I linked to the right person?) over at China Beat has a great post up on the impact China's manufacturing downturn is having and will have on China's big picture. The post is entitled, "China?s Migrant Workers in the Wake of the Economic Crisis: Unemployed, Undeterred," and it basically concludes that the macro impacts on China will be micro...

China's Rio Tinto Case. Everyone Move Along....

Posted on August 12, 2009
Okay, so the title is a bit of an exaggeration, but I do think the Rio Tinto case is being blown out of proportion, at least somewhat. From my perspective (which is based on ZERO inside information and absolutely no idea whether anyone is guilty of anything or not), this matter has always been a lot more about what the Chinese government is trying to say to its own populace than what it is trying...

Six More Keys To Quality Product Made In China.

Posted on August 12, 2009
The other day, I did a post entitled, "The Six (Not Five) Keys To China Quality." In response to that post, Rich Brubaker, over at the All Roads Lead to China blog left a long and very thoughtful comment adding six additional things that should be done to better ensure quality Chinese manufacturing...

Easy Jobs For Foreigners In China. Everyone I Know Begs To Differ.

Posted on August 12, 2009
New York Times article, entitled, "American Graduates Finding Jobs in China," makes it seem that all a young American needs to do to get a job in China is to show up. Wow! When I read that article, it did not seem to jibe with what I was seeing out there, but from my perch at a tiny law firm, I figured I just was not seeing enough...

The Six (Not Five) Keys To China Quality

Posted on August 11, 2009
A client sent me an article the other day to ask me if it was accurate. I replied that it was, but that it left out one important element. The article is entitled, "5 Keys to Quality when Working with Chinese Suppliers." and it sets forth the following as the five keys: 1...

Made In America. Not China.

Posted on August 11, 2009
Fascinating collection of articles over at Forbes Magazine on American manufacturing and how it does and should compete with China. The introduction gives a good description of the themes the articles. Made in America meant something very different 30 years ago...

China Blogs: That's The way, Uh-Huh Uh-Huh, We Like It, Uh-Huh, Uh-Huh.

Posted on August 10, 2009
I often receive email complaints from bloggers whose blogs are not on our blogroll. Increasingly, they favorably compare themselves to blogs on our roll, along with sometimes veiled or not so veiled complaints about those blogs. Though China Law Blog has been in existence for more than three years, we have never really provided an explanation for our blogroll, so here goes...

Forum Selection Clauses. Do NOT Try These At Home

Posted on August 10, 2009
I just got an email from a small tech company in China asking me whether its contract should call for Chinese or Russian law. My response was pretty much that I had no idea because it would depend on what was in the contract and what was most important...

China's Ten Most Beautiful Churches

Posted on August 09, 2009
I am into architecture. I love buildings and my impression of places oftentimes stems from the buildings. If buildings can speak to a people and to a history (and I am convinced that they do), religious buildings oftentimes speak the loudest. They can tell us who was up, who was down, and when...

Doing Business With China? Don't Look To The UCC

Posted on August 09, 2009
United States domestic business lawyers live and breathe the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). Let's turn to Wikipedia for an explanation of how the UCC came into being and why it is so important: The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC or the Code), first published in 1952, is one of a number of uniform acts that have been promulgated in conjunction with efforts to harmonize the law of sales and other commercial transactions in all 50 states...

When The Chinese Government Talks You Should Listen.

Posted on August 08, 2009
One of the misconceptions foreign businesses often have about China is that their providing China with a few hundred jobs means they wield real influence. They start to believe that because some local government official has been solicitous, that they are somehow protected from all the bad things they read about that happens to other foreign companies in China...

China's Business Laws. Ignore Them At Your Peril.

Posted on August 08, 2009
Very interesting and very thoughtful post up over at Think China, entitled, "Are rules meant to be broken?" The theme of the post is that one needs to learn to "tiptoe through the gray areas of China law." I disagree. Think China has this to say: There are many rules and regulations in China that are ignored systematically...

Chinese Prostitutes And Government Officials, And Why You Should Listen To The People.

Posted on August 08, 2009
A recent survey of more than 3,000 Chinese found that less than 7.9% of them trust their government officials. The media have been reporting on how 7.9% trust prostitutes, which are more trusted than the government. As one would expect, this survey has received considerable blog play: -- Chinese Trust Prostitutes More Than Party Cadres --Chinese Trust Prostitutes More Than Government Officials --Chinese Trust Prostitutes More Than Politicians (The Huffington Post) --Chinese Trust Prostitutes Over...

Law Firms Getting Scammed And What It Has To Do With China.

Posted on August 08, 2009
If you are a lawyer, you have probably gotten one: an email from a company (usually in China, Hong Kong or Taiwan) saying they want to retain you to help them collect on debts owed to them by American companies. WATCH OUT. It is almost certainly a scam...

China's Mafia.... Whaddya know?

Posted on August 06, 2009
I have often wondered about the mafia in China. I have asked lawyer friends about it and I usually get pretty much the same answer: "The Communist Party destroyed it and has continued to keep it at bay. It can have no rival. That's in Hong Kong and Macao, not here...

How To Succeed With Your China Business. Well....Sorta.

Posted on August 04, 2009
Cn Reviews does a nice job covering an interesting discussion on doing technology business in China. Though the discussion seemed to focus on the tech industry, what was said pretty much applies to all businesses. I will note what was said (in bold) and then comment...

Wanna Be A China Lawyer? Creeps Need Not Apply.

Posted on August 04, 2009
And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why He said you look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do So I took off my hat I said imagine that, huh, me working for you Signs, by the Five Man Electrical Band At least three times a week, I get emails from earnest...

U.S. - China Relations. Normalization, Not Democratization.

Posted on August 03, 2009
I wrote this post back in September, 2008, but forgot to put it up. I rediscovered it today and though it is definitely dated (it was written by Kissinger with an eye towards the US Presidential elections) the core of it still very much holds true and still merits a post, I think...

China Patents Work And I Have The Proof.

Posted on August 02, 2009
Axiom: Chinese businesses do not waste money. Axiom: Filing patents in China is expensive. Axiom: Chinese businesses are filing patents in China like crazy. Conclusion: Filing patents must be worth the money; in other words, they have value. According to Intellectual Asset Management Blog (h/t IP Dragon), "for the first time invention patent grants made to domestic [Chinese] entities are outstripping those made to foreign concerns...

China And The Swine Flu. When Pigs Fly.

Posted on August 02, 2009
If you are not reading Absurdity, Allegory and China, you should be. It just did an excellent post, entitled, "One Flu East," on what could happen to you if you come to China with an elevated temperature or even if you just come in on a plane near someone with an elevated temperature...

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