China Business Consulting China Prospects

Selected Publications

On Strategy

On Communications

  • For Immediate Release is a round-up of trends in international firms’ use of PR in China, plus a handy guide with Top Ten Tips for Media Relations, published Sept/Oct 2005 in China Business Review, the venerable publication of the US-China Business Council.
  • Doing Business in China offers a basic overview of protocol and approach

On Culture

• Beijing and Shanghai: China’s Hottest Cities. Browse the Table of Contents and read Janet’s introduction. The book also includes the essay Business in China written by Janet Carmosky.

• Janet’s introduction to the China: Renaissance of the Middle Kingdom explores the yin and yang of China’s ongoing appeal to westerners. Pub date Dec 2005
     
  The Great Wild Goose Pagoda was built by Tang (644-914 AD) Emperor TaiZong in his huge imperial capital Chang'An - present day Xi'an - as a monastery where Buddhist scriptures brought back from India could be translated from Sanskrit. As a result of the meeting of these two cultural forces - Buddhist thought and the globally dominant Chinese empire - both Buddhism and China changed permanently. In these current days of a globalized economy, we might ask how far we can progess without a more globalized culture, open like Tang TaiZong, to outside cultural influences.