Turning down an after-dinner invite to a brothel is always a social minefield. But the city’s Party Secretary, a 50-something man with baby-soft hands, had been gently fondling my thigh underneath the banquet table for the past 45 minutes, making me even more eager than usual to make my excuses and leave.Perhaps the spa in the small-town Shandong hotel where I was dining with
This week's show starts with us grilling James on "what you have to do to be part of Chinese business culture" and descends from there into stories of the sort of booze-and-ketamine-fuelled business deal-making that seems to consist of a large amount of male business culture in China. But why? And what is happening to the whole industry under Xi Jinping's recent crackdown?
Awareness of cultural factors when it comes to the development of an economic or/ and social relationship in another country can be critical, and especially when the cultural roots vary
exclusive | Bribes, fake factories and forged documents: the buccaneering consultants pervading China’s factory audits
A perfect storm of quick-fire, one-off factory inspections and insatiable Western demand for cheap goods is leading to fraud among Chinese manufacturers
Cottage industry of consultants has popped up in China, helping low-end factories meet high-end Western standards, for a cost