Presentation by

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• Presentation by
• Dr. Galen Spencer Hull, Director
• Office of International Business Programs
• College of Business
• Tennessee State University (TSU)
• At the School of Economics
• Tianjin Polytechnic University (TJPU)
• JUNE 2006

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Summary of the Partnership between TJPU and TSU
Chronology of partnership events

• Dr. John Wu, a Chinese American and original
  Tianjin ren with business operations in both the
  United States and China, was primarily
  responsible for initiating linkages between the
  two universities. He spoke favorably to
  officials of TJPU about the TSU College of
  Business and to TSU officials about TPU.
  Subsequently an invitation is offered for TSU
  officials to visit TJPU.
• November 2004. Dr. Tilden Curry Dean of the
  college of Business, Dr. Soumen Ghosh, Director
  of the Office of Business and Economic Research,
  and
• Dr. Evelyn Nettles, Associate Vice President
  for Academic Affairs, visit Tianjin, where they
  discuss the capabilities of their respective
  institutions and explored a possible partnership.
  A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the
  two universities is signed, expressing a
  commitment to explore initiatives in such matters
  as (1) the exchange of faculty and students, (2)
  research projects, (3) academic information
  sharing, and (4) possible establishment of a
  joint or collaborative MBA program

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Chronology of TSU-TJPU Collaboration

• June 2005. Two officials from TJPU (a vice
  president and a dean) visit TSU to express
  continuing interest in various collaborations and
  to continue the dialogue between the two
  institutions.
• Fall semester 2005. Dr. Hong Zhao, Dean of the
  TJPU School of Economics, serves as Visiting
  Scholar in the College of Business at the
  invitation of the Department of Economics and
  Finance. She taught a course on Economic
  Problems, participated in joint research
  projects, guest lectured on a number of
  occasions, and networked with various business,
  education, and social groups.

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Chronology of TSU-TJPU Collaboration

• May 20-July 1 2006. Eight TSU students
  participate in a six-week Study Abroad program at
  TJPU, which includes a course in international
  trade and an independent study course in Chinese
  language, business and culture. In preparation
  for this trip to China, they were enrolled in a
  Chinese language class in Nashville. Two members
  of the faculty accompany them while in China
  Dr. Galen Hull from the College of Business and
  Dr. John Miglietta of the College of Arts and
  Sciences.
• TSU Students Participating in the China Study
  Abroad Program
• Brittini Barnes Tamia Flemister
• Anwar Gartrell Deirdre Middleton
• Jennifer Peterson John Rembold
• Karen Tankersley Shaana Worlds

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Chronology of TSU-TJPU Collaboration

• May 28-31, 2006. President Melvin Johnson visits
  TJPU at the invitation of TJPU President. He
  first arrives in Beijing and is hosted by Dr John
  Wu and his staff. Further relationship building
  between the two universities and discussions of
  future collaborations are the focus of meetings
  with TJPU academic authorities.
• June 2006. TJPU invites a TSU faculty member to
  teach a course in micro economics at TJPU. Dr.
  Abu Wahid, professor in the TSU Department of
  Economics and Editor of the Journal of Developing
  Areas, teaches this course.
• Fall semester 2006. Two students from TJPU An
  Jian and Liu Bo, are expected to enter the MBA
  program at TSU and to be offered graduate
  assistantships.
• Spring semester 2007. Arrangements are currently
  underway to seek a second Visiting Scholar from
  TJPU,Prof. Yang Chun-mei. for placement in the
  Department of Economics in the TSU College of
  Business.

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Profile of Tennessee State University

• Tennessee State University (TSU) was established
  by virtue of a 1909 act of the General Assembly
  of the State of Tennessee and began enrolling
  students in 1912 (the same year that Tianjin
  Polytechnic University was established).
  Originally reserved for Black Americans only, TSU
  is open to all races and nationalities. It is one
  of Tennessee's two land-grant universities and is
  one of several universities in the State
  University and Community College System under the
  Tennessee Board of Regents governing body.
• Based in Nashville, the capital city of
  Tennessee, TSU has a responsibility to the entire
  state, as specified in federal land-grant
  legislation. As a modern urban land-grant
  university, TSU not only offers a broad variety
  of residential academic programs but also has an
  extensive and growing commitment to the working
  adults of the mid-state area. This commitment was
  enhanced by its merger with the University of
  Tennessee at Nashville in 1979, including the
  integration of a College of Business within TSU.
• Today TSU provides a full range of degree and
  non-degree programs, library services,
  laboratories, classrooms, and faculty at both its
  Main Campus and its downtown campus, currently
  under a major renovation. Total enrollment is
  currently around 9,000 students.

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Profile of Tennessee State University

• TSU has grown far beyond its original mission of
  providing teacher training and degree programs in
  Agriculture, Family and Consumer Sciences,
  trades, and business. It now has a College of
  Arts and Sciences, a College of Business, a
  College of Education, a College of Engineering
  and Technology, a School of Agriculture and Home
  Economics, a School of Allied Health Professions,
  a School of Nursing, a School of Graduate
  Studies, a Division of Extension and Continuing
  Education, an Institute of Government, and a
  Division of Aerospace Studies.
• Since the inception of its first graduate program
  in 1948, TSU has grown to serve the state through
  programs leading to some 44 undergraduate degrees
  and 30 graduate degrees. Current total enrollment
  is about 9,000 students.
• TSU's leadership in the state's university
  community is evident in the number of joint and
  cooperative programs with other universities,
  both public and private, including a speech
  pathology and audiology program with Vanderbilt
  a criminal justice program with Middle Tennessee
  State University and Austin Peay State
  University Allied Health Professions programs
  with Meharry Medical College and agricultural
  extension programs with the University of
  Tennessee, Knoxville. In addition, the
  University is engaged with Howard University in a
  joint pharmacy program.

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Profile of Tennessee State University

• The University supports an athletic program which
  reflects a commitment to students' overall
  development the University also promotes
  positive and life-long learning, scholarly
  inquiry, and a commitment of service to others.
  Its track and field athletes have won numerous
  gold medals in Olympic competition.
• TSU serves a diverse population of
  students--traditional, non-traditional, commuter,
  residential, undergraduate, graduate, and
  non-degree, full-time and part-time. In doing
  so, it develops the talents of its students
  including those with special academic talents as
  well as those who have educational, cultural,
  environmental, or socio-economic constraints.
• The University is committed to providing
  educational opportunities to all qualified people
  without regard to age, sex, color, race,
  religion, national origin, or other non-merit
  reason.
• The University's objectives mirror these general
  and specific purposes as well as it's priorities.
  TSU projects itself to the students, faculty,
  alumni, and to the citizens of the global
  community through the motto Think, Work, Serve.

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Higher Education Organization and Governance

• Tennessee State University is governed by two
  public governing bodies
• The Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC)
• The Tennessee Higher Education Commission,
  created in 1967 by act of the General Assembly,
  has the responsibility of coordinating and
  planning for all of higher education in the state
  system. It has no operating responsibilities but
  must approve new academic programs and new
  centers of all campuses review budgets perform
  long-range planning and generally ensure that a
  comprehensive system of higher education is
  developed to meet the needs of the citizens. THEC
  oversees the Tennessee Board of Regents.
• The Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR)
• The Board of Regents was created by the General
  Assembly in 1972 to govern the newly established
  State University and Community College System,
  composed of six universities and ten community
  colleges with a total enrollment of over 180,000
  students. The Universities include Austin Peay
  State University, East Tennessee State
  University, Memphis State University, Middle
  Tennessee State University, Tennessee State
  University, and Tennessee Technological
  University. The Board now provides governance
  for technical schools and area vocational schools
  as well.

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Tennessee State University Administration

• Tennessee State University Administration
• The University is administered by the President,
  a Provost (a newly created position), and four
  vice presidents whose areas of responsibility
  are Academic Affairs, Business and Finance,
  Student Affairs, and University Relations and
  Development.
• International Educational Exchanges
• In 2004/2005 there were 121 international
  students enrolled at TSU. Most of the Chinese
  students were enrolled in the graduate program in
  the School of Engineering. An International
  Exchange Program is coordinated in the Department
  of Languages, Literature and Foreign Languages.
  Last year 12 TSU students participated in its
  study abroad programs.

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International Education Initiatives

• Consortium for International Education
• Recently the Tennessee Board of Regents
  established a Consortium for International
  Education, aimed at coordinating the efforts of
  the 18 TBR institutions to internationalize their
  programs. Although TBR institutions have a
  combined enrollment of over 180,000 students,
  they have relatively few international students
  (just over 3,000) enrolled. The establishment of
  the Consortium is an indication that the TBR
  recognizes the significance of global trends in
  education and the importance of playing an
  active role in international education. The
  Consortium will provide a propitious opportunity
  for TSU to exercise leadership, based on its past
  record of achievements and current initiatives in
  China. The key issues that the Consortium
  anticipates addressing over the next five-year
  period include securing student loan assistance
  for study abroad and continuing to establish
  linkages with partner institutions abroad.
• Mid-Continent Consortium for International
  Education
• TSU is one of the founding institutions with
  other institutions in Tennessee (both public and
  private) of the Mid-Continent Consortium for
  International Development. is an effort among
  member institutions to join together for the
  purpose of promoting study abroad in non-English
  speaking countries areas represented by
  students enrolled at our respective institutions.
  Member institutions 9 public and private) come
  from Tennessee and Kentucky. Student exchanges
  have taken place in Canada, Mexico, and Spain.

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Office of International Business Programs
http//www.tnstate.edu/oibp

• In the spring of 1999, the Office of
  International Business Programs (OIBP) was
  established in the College of Business with the
  primary mission of providing the impetus for
  internationalizing its curriculum and programs.
  Dr. Galen Hull assumed responsibilities as the
  first Director of OIBP. Since then he has managed
  a four-person office and collaborated with
  faculty and administrators across campus. He has
  employed 12 graduate assistants, most of them
  students from ten different countries including
  China.
• One of his first initiatives was the Minor in
  International Business program. To date ten
  students have completed all the requirements for
  the Minor. The Multicultural Friendship Society
  (MCFS), formed in 2000 under the sponsorship of
  OIBP. Each spring for six years MCFS has
  organized a Multicultural Festival on campus.
• OIBP reaches out to the Nashville business
  community. OIBP staff have been active in the
  World Trade Council and the Nashville Area
  Chamber of Commerce. This has helped to open
  doors for student internships and long-term job
  possibilities. TSU students have participated in
  several research projects involving the Nashville
  businesses and several have completed
  internships.
• The fall 2005 semester OIBP began its seventh
  year of the Windows onto the World Lecture
  Series, which takes place six times each year and
  focuses on issues of international interest.

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Office of International Business
Programshttp//www.tnstate.edu/oibp

• Faculty development and exchanges are an
  important part of the OIBP mandate to further the
  professional objectives of COB professors. Every
  year at least a dozen COB faculty travel to
  conferences, present papers, and incorporate
  these experiences into their courses. Under the
  Globalizing HBCU Business School Initiative
  coordinated by the University of Memphis COB
  faculty members have participated in several
  activities, including a recent tour to
  universities in Southern Africa.
• Together with the Office of Business and Economic
  Research and The Journal of Developing (JDA)
  areas, OIBP organized a 3-day International
  conference on globalization and urbanization
  challenges and opportunities from 6 to 8 May
  2004. Papers from that symposium were published
  as proceedings in 2005.
• International exchanges. OIBP manages
  partnerships with universities in other
  countries, including linkages in Malawi, Ukraine,
  Thailand, and Tunisia as well as China.
  Possibilities are also open for exchanges in
  South Africa and Botswana. Each of these involves
  exchanges of faculty and students. OIBP is
  currently managing a three-year grant program
  with the University of Tunis el Manar in Tunisia.

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Journal of Developing Areas

• Journal of Developing Areas- College of Business
• In 2002 Prof. Abu Wahid began publishing an
  academic review entitled
• The Journal of Developing Areas (JDA), a
  multidisciplinary publication. The Journal aims
  to stimulate in-depth and rigorous empirical and
  theoretical research on all issues pertaining to
  the process of economic development. It also
  intends to encourage research on economic,
  social, urban/regional and inner city problems of
  the United States and other developed countries.
  The Journal of Developing Areas is published in
  English language twice each academic year in
  fall and in spring  by the College of Business.

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Master of Business Administration (MBA) Program

• The MBA Program in the College of Business
• The College of Business at TSU offers a fully
  accredited MBA program with a standard MBA
  curriculum. It provides broad-based management
  education to develop knowledge and skills that
  will enable the graduate to assume leadership
  positions in public and private companies.
• The MBA program consists of 12 courses for a
  total of 36 hours of academic credit leading to
  the degree. Non-business undergraduate majors are
  required to take foundation courses in such areas
  as accounting, economics, management, legal
  environment, and information systems.
• Twelve core courses required for the MBA include
  managerial accounting, management of information
  systems, statistical decision-making, managerial
  economics, managerial finance, behavior in
  organizations, operations management, business
  strategy, and marketing management.
• In addition, three elective courses may be taken
  in an area of concentration. Those students who
  attend full time taken 9 to 12 credit hours per
  semester and are able to complete the program in
  a year and a half.

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Master of Business Administration (MBA) Program

• General Admission Requirements
• An application for admission on the approved
  (online) form accompanied by a 25 non-refundable
  application fee. Go to http//www.tnstate.edu/grad
  /application.
• A baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate degree from
  an accredited university.
• Official transcripts from all institutions
  previously attended.
• Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT) test
  score.
• International Students
• In addition to the above requirements
  international students must
• Provide certificate of proficiency in English,
  e.g., minimum score of 500 on TOEFL.
• Submit official transcripts to be evaluated by an
  international educational credential agency.
• Secure student visa via the TSU office of
  International Student Advisor who issues
• I-20 form indicating admission into the
  university.

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College of Arts and Sciences

• Minor in International Affairs
• This program, which became effective in the
  2005-2006 academic year, is open to students
  throughout the university regardless of their
  major. The minor in International Affairs has a
  core component of Political Science, History, and
  Geography courses. In addition students are asked
  to specialize in a specific area of emphasis.
  These are Area studies (African, Asian, European,
  Latin American, and Middle Eastern studies)
  International Security, Law, and Organization
  International Development Foreign Policy
  Analysis and Comparative Politics and
  International Peace and Justice, Cultural
  Studies. This minor offers a multidisciplinary
  approach to the study of international affairs.
  The International Affairs minor provides students
  with exposure to various disciplines (Africana
  Studies, Agriculture, Anthropology, Business,
  Communications, History, Geography, Philosophy
  and Religious Studies, Political Science, and
  Sociology). By taking a menu of courses students
  develop an understanding of cultural, economic,
  historical, geographical, and political aspects
  of the international system. Dr. John Miglietta
  directs the Minor.
• Pilot Center for Academic Excellence in
  Intelligence Studies
• A Pilot Center for Academic Excellence in
  Intelligence Studies was established at TSU in
  2005 with funding from the U.S. federal
  government. The Center is providing
  opportunities for TSU students to study abroad
  during the summer of 2006 in Central Europe,
  South Africa, and China. The Pilot Center expects
  to initiate further student and faculty exchanges
  over the next three years.

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Other TSU International Initiatives

• College of Education Kurdistan Project
• TSU faculty members in the Department of
  Educational Administration have participated in
  rebuilding the educational system of Kurdistan
  (northern Iraq) in recent years. In 2004 the
  Kurdistan Academy of Science (KAS) was created to
  promote K-16 curriculum and higher education
  programs of study in Kurdistan, and to engender
  cooperation between Kurdish and non-Kurdish
  educators/scholars. Drs. Gundi and Wiemers were
  instrumental in the founding of this
  organization. Dr. Gundi is a member of the
  Kurdish community in Nashville and one of the few
  Kurdish professors of education in the United
  States.
• School of Agriculture Institute of Agricultural
  and Environmental Research
• The Institute of Agricultural and Environmental
  Research (IAgER) has as its objective to provide
  technical assistance in areas in which its School
  of Agriculture faculty have expertise. In
  September 2005 Winrock International requested
  the assistance of a Research Associate in IAgER
  with expertise in meat goat production to travel
  to Tajikistan to provide technical assistance in
  goat breeding for mohair, meat, and milk
  production at both the household and farm levels.
  He spent two weeks in Tajikistan meeting with
  producers and educating them on best management
  practices to maximize production in this
  developing agricultural economy. In El Salvador
  USAID requested the services of TSU Research
  Associate designing a marketing system for
  tropical fruit producers.

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Globalization and its Implications for China

• Globalization A Working Definition
• Increasingly journalists and academics have come
  to refer to nearly everything that happens on a
  global level as having to do with some aspect of
  globalization. In broad terms this involves the
  integration of economic, cultural, and
  technological activities across international
  boundaries. Only during the past ten years or so
  has the term entered common usage. It is usually
  associated with free market economics in
  international trade and the liberalization of
  trade policies. Examples of this would include
  the World Trade Organization and the bilateral
  free trade agreements that two or more countries
  enter into for mutual benefit. To illustrate this
  process of globalization and how it impacts China
  I would like to review two recent books The
  World is Flat and Guanxi The Art of
  relationships.

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Globalization and its Implications for China

• The World is Flat, by Thomas Freedman (2005)
• One of the most well known articulators of
  globalization is the New York Times journalist,
  Thomas Friedman, whose book the Lexus and the
  Olive Tree helped to popularize the term. He has
  since written another book entitled The World is
  Flat that has been widely acclaimed. Of course,
  Friedman is not attempting to refute established
  theory that the world is round. Rather, he is
  using flatness as a metaphor for the increasing
  accessibility of information and expansions of
  relations among peoples and nations. He
  describes ten flatteners
• Ten Forces that Flattened the World
• 1. 11/9/89
• The Berlin Wall came down, eventually leading to
  a single global market.
• Main cause the Information revolution critical
  mass of IBM PCs, Windows
• 2. Netscape net browser goes public
• Made possible by existence of millions of PCs,
  modems.
• Internet becomes truly inter-operable for users
  around the world
• In 1996, the fiber optic bubble launched
  thousands of miles of fiber optic cable
• Microsoft eventually overcomes Netscape as king
  of browsers

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Globalization and its Implications for China

• Flatteners (continued)
• 3. Work Flow Software
• Sales, marketing, manufacturing, billing, become
  inter-operable
• More and more common standards established e.g.,
  ISO 9000.
• 4. Open Sourcing Self-Organizing Collaborative
  Communities
• Intellectual origins in academic
  scientific community e.g., peer-reviewed science
  Linux is ultimate form
• Apache and IBM single-server machine
  hosting thousands of websites
• Wikipedia volunteer operation, strictly
  controlled free encyclopedia Jan. 2001
• 5. Outsourcing Y2K/India
• Americans begin to draw on Indian brainpower
  outsourcing
• Jack Welsh and GE visit to India in 1989 join
  up with Wipro
• HealthScribe India first set up in 1994 to
  outsource medical transcriptions
• Y2K computer readjustment work done by
  low-skilled Indian programmer

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Globalization and its Implications for China

• Flatteners (continued
• 6. Offshoring Running with Gazelles, Eating
  with Lions/China
• China begins opening to international markets in
  early 1980s.
• Joins WTO in December 2001 and begins following
  global rules
• Offshoring to China begins in 1980s textiles,
  consumer electronics, furniture
• Not just racing to the bottom productivity is
  increasing 17 annually
• Supply-chaining Eating Sushi in Arkansas
• Wal-Mart goes global, moving US2 billion
  merchandise/year in global supply chain
• Sushi restaurant in Bentonville,
  Vendorville
• RFID radio frequency identification
  microchips attached to pallets
• In Japan Seiyu retail chain imitating
  Wal-Mart taught Wal-Mart to sell sushi
• 8. Insourcing What the Guys in Funny Brown
  Short Are Really Doing
• UPS and FedEx are not just delivering
  packages, theyre doing logistics
• Allows small firms to act big, business
  opportunity for UPS synchronized commerce
  solutions.
• GPS enables UPS to go beyond supply-chain
  management, using third-party
• managed logistics.

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Globalization and its Implications for China

• Flatteners (continued)
• 9. In-forming Google, Yahoo, MSN Web Search
• Making easily accessible the entire worlds
  knowledge in every language
• In-forming is the individuals personal analog
  to open-sourcing, outsourcing, in sourcing,
  supply-chaining.
• Google levels information have no class or
  education boundaries
• The Steroids Digital, Mobile, Personal and
  Virtual
• Increase in computational and storage capacity,
  in-put/out-put capability b.
  File-sharing, a la Napster wireless referred to
  as the Ubersteroid.
• Globalization Phase 3.0 characterized by
  digitization, miniaturization, virtualization,
  personalization, and wireless.

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Globalization and its Implications for China

• Guanxi The Art of Relationships, by Robert
  Buderi and Gregory Huang (2006)
• Guanxi, the Chinese term for mutually beneficial
  relationships essential to success in the Middle
  Kingdom, tells the story of the juggernaut
  research lab that has underpinned Microsofts
  relationship-building in China since the late
  1900s. It recounts the steps taken by Microsoft
  operatives to establish a research lab in
  Beijing, recognizing the significance of Chinese
  human resources both in China and in the
  diaspora. The book follows the labs emergence as
  a mecca for Chinese computer science talent.
• Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, a suburb of
  Seattle, Microsoft is among the largest and most
  successful multinational corporations in the
  world. Its founder and president, Bill Gates, has
  been listed for several years as the richest
  person in the world by Forbes magazine.
  Microsofts software operating system Microsoft
  Windows is the dominant system in the world
  today. In Beijing Microsoft has invested over
  100 million and hired more than 400 of Chinas
  best and brightest to turn its research lab
  outpost into an important window onto the future
  of computing and a training ground to promote the
  state of Chinese computer science. It hoped for
  pay-offs for both Microsoft and its host country.
  It is a story of in-sourcing as profiled in
  Friedmans flatteners.

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Globalization and its Implications for China

• Several of the persons profiled in Guanxi are
  Chinese who were either born in China or Taiwan
  and had spent most of their lives in the United
  States. One of them, Dr. Lee Kai-Fu, was born in
  Taiwan, educated in the U.S. and pursued a
  successful career all of his life in the high
  tech world of California and Washington state.
  He was the moving force in setting up the Beijing
  lab, reviewing thousands of resumes for positions
  in the lab and making hiring decisions. In the
  process Dr. Lee made speeches and wrote articles
  published in Chinese newspapers encouraging young
  Chinese to devote their efforts to careers in
  computer science. He became something of a
  celebrity, well known not only in Beijing but
  around the country. And of course he used his
  guanxi skills to approach Chinese government
  officials and academic authorities to promote
  Microsofts agenda.
• The drama of the book is the revelation of how
  Lee Kai-Fu became disillusioned with the slow
  pace of Microsofts commitment in China.
  Eventually, after presiding over the successful
  establishment of the Microsoft lab in Beijing he
  opted to join Google, the fast-growing company
  that is challenging Microsoft for supremacy in
  the high-tech world. He saw Google as the
  undisputed leader of search technology where
  Microsoft was lagging behind. It was a severe
  blow to Microsoft which saw Google is its arch
  nemesis.

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Globalization and its Implications for China

• If there is one abiding theme in Guanxi it is the
  powerful influence of the Chinese diaspora (e.g.,
  Chinese Americans) in the growth and development
  of the Chinese economy. A recent example of this
  is Mr. Handel Lee, Founder President of House
  of Three in Shanghai, profiled on CCTV.
• Tianjin ren should be able to buy this book in
  local bookstores!