AUTHOR'S BIO
Yasheng Huang
Associate Professor, Harvard Business School.
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Two Cheers for Jiang Zemin's Three Represents
Yasheng Huang Series: The Asian Century 2002-11-14Mockery of retiring Chinse President Jiang Zemin's theory of the "Three Represents" is rife. Pundits scorn the theory, which says that the Communist party should not only represent workers and peasants but also society's "advanced productive forces, culture and interests," and they deem it wholly inadequate to China's mounting problems of inequality, corruption, and lack of democracy. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 16940
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Why Chinese Companies Stay at Home
Yasheng Huang Series: China World 2001-11-09Go into most shops nowadays and you will find an infinite variety of goods made in China. These goods can range from low-priced sweaters and socks to high-value electronic products such as VCRs or tape recorders. China is a huge manufacturing base for firms from all over the world which invest in China to benefit from China’s low-cost but highly skilled and disciplined workers. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 16575
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Why Overseas Chinese Dominate China's Exports
Yasheng Huang Series: China World 2001-06-05Since the early 1990s, more foreign direct investment (FDI) has flowed into China than to any country except America. Of this vast capital inflow, overseas Chinese – from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao and Southeast Asia – delivered the lion’s share. Investments from Hong Kong and Macao claimed 70% of Chinese FDI in the early 90s; since then their share has decreased, yet it still accounts for 50% of China’s total FDI. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 18389
