Building on the last post about the primacy of money in the Chinese mindset, today we take a look at how this stacks up with a contrasting view from the U.S. This post picks up exactly where the last one left off, just after Carolyn Blackman has described the elaborate, theatrical negotiations she observed in [...]

Elaborating here on the theme from the last book post: the scarcity of money in the Chinese mindset. I ended that last book post by contrasting the default Chinese view with a different, American view of scarcity: the opportunity to use one’s talents in the most fulfilling way possible. In this post we delve more [...]

If you’ve ever visited China, you probably noticed how little space gets wasted. Families make do in spaces that seem absurdly small to many Americans. Vegetables are grown in often-surprising places: next to roads and railroad tracks, for instance. Money doesn’t get wasted either. Many have talked about how the Chinese consumer is the great [...]