Of the plethora of China books only a few make it in the eyes of Chris Devonshire-Ellis of China Briefing. But Shaun Rein's book The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends that will Disrupt the World
certainly made the grade, he writes.China Briefing:
Unlike many of today’s China writers, Rein is the real deal. For a start, he set up and runs his own market research firm in China, and he lives in the country. Surprisingly few China commentators are actually based in China and even fewer face the responsibilities associated with running their own business. Rein does, and that marks his opinions out as possessing some merit. Forbes certainly thinks so – he has been a regular contributor to their online website for some time.
Rein’s thesis is that China is moving up the value chain and becoming wealthier, and he discusses the implications this has for global trade as well as the new opportunities and strategies that need to be deployed in China. His observations come from literally thousands of interviews he has conducted over the years with everyone from Chinese billionaires, factory workers, young mothers and even prostitutes, all sought out to extract some sense of China’s evolution: where it is headed and ultimately, what the modern Chinese consumer wants to buy and how they expect to be treated.More in China Briefing.
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8 comments:
Ay, Chris is a mover and shaker in China his opinions many people respect. I'll look out for that book now its nice to see a sensible review about it at last amongst all the stupid blog chatter.
Seconded on that about CDE. Good work Shaun on the book. Is it in Hong Kong yet?
You can certainly order it on Kindle or ship it from the US
Its about time somebody sensible stood up to the blog haters like Dan Harris, Richard Burger and Ryan McLaughlin and their collectuve opinions and bullying of other peoples work online on their own China blogs. Its a nasty little cartel they run. Thanks for standing up to their jealous noises and posting this review its the first decent review I've read of his book.
Just for the record: I have been easy going on allowing anonymous comments. Well, they were positive anyway. For future comments, please identify yourself.
I did what I think is a very complete search of Dan Harris's China Law Blog, Richard Burger's Peking Duck Blog, and Ryan McLaughlin's Lost Laowai Blog and it turns out that NONE of those three people have reviewed Shaun Rein's End of Cheap China book. So it seems that "anonymous" is just making things up to try to badmouth bloggers he doesn't like. Fons, you really should not be allowing such defamatory horseshit on here.
Thanks Francisco, I bet a bit on the way the internet communities correct each other, and you proved me to be right
Actually, I think you'll find that Richard Burger wrote a long piece about Shaun Rein's book on his Peking Duck blog entitled "Shaun Rein's Revenge" and then encouraged people to slate him. China Law Blog appropriated the title "The End Of Cheap China" for a series of articles promoting their own busienss at the same time Rein's book was published. I don't believe that was a coincidence. As for "Francisco" your identifying URL is Google my dear and not a real identity.
There is far too much catfighting sources emanatig from the same few people on the English language China focused blogs and I for one find it distasteful. You don't have to read Rein's book. But you could at least show some respect for his writing it.
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