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  • Chinese Rules

  • Mao's Dog, Deng's Cat, and Five Timeless Lessons for Understanding China
  • By: Tim Clissold
  • Narrated by: Stephen Critchlow
  • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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Chinese Rules

By: Tim Clissold
Narrated by: Stephen Critchlow
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Summary

From the author of the acclaimed ‘Mr. China’ comes another rollicking adventure story – part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio – that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners win in China.

In the twenty-first century, the world has tilted eastwards in its orbit; China grows confident while the West seems mired in doubt. Having lived and worked in China for more than two decades, Tim Clissold explains the secrets that Westerners can use to navigate through its cultural and political maze. Picking up where he left off in the international bestseller ‘Mr. China’, ‘Chinese Rules’ chronicles his most recent exploits, with assorted Chinese bureaucrats, factory owners, and local characters building a climate change business in China. Of course, all does not go as planned as he finds himself caught between the world’s largest carbon emitter and the world’s richest man. Clissold offers entertaining and enlightening anecdotes of the absurdities, gaffes, and mysteries he encountered along the way.

Sprinkled amid surreal scenes of cultural confusion and near misses are smart myth-busting insights and practical lessons Westerns can use to succeed in China. Exploring key episodes in that nation’s long political, military, and cultural history, Clissold outlines five Chinese rules, which anyone can deploy in on-the-ground situations with modern Chinese counterparts. These Chinese rules will enable foreigners not only to co-operate with China but also to compete with it on its own terms.

©2014 Tim Clissold (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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‘Clissold’s attempt to encapsulate how China works in five neat rules is well timed … fans of Clissold’s first book will find plenty of only-in-China tales from the author’s reincarnation as a carbon credit entrepreneur … His amusing anecdotes illustrate some of the rules he sets out for foreigners mystified by China … Formidable storytelling … An entertaining and valuable book’ Financial Times

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A fascinating glimpse into Chinese Business.

I loved Mr China so I looked to see if Tim Clissold had written any other books. I was not disappointed.

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Absorbing and entertaining account of culture and business in China

There is much to enjoy in this audiobook. The author paints an entertaining and sensitive depiction of the challenges of doing business in modern day China. His use of key episodes in China’s past to help frame the context in which he and his colleagues struggle to close business deals in the 21st Century is a triumph. It might easily have been a forced and artificial approach, but he writes with such evident fondness for his Chinese sparring partners that it works for the most part. For me, the only jarring moments came with the narrator’s woeful pronunciation of many of the Chinese names. Even the most perfunctory preparation would have helped to avoid mangling the names of some of the nation’s most important figures such as Premier Zhou Enlai and others.

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Fascinating

Really informative and interesting, not only the current explanation of carbon trading couched in a personal story, but the use of historical Chinese Rules to overcome barriers in doing business in China.

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