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From the writer of the acclaimed Mr. China comes another rollicking adventure story - part memoir, part background, part business imbroglio - that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners succeed in China. In the 21st hundred years, the world has tilted eastwards in its orbit; China increases confident while the West seems mired in hesitation. Having lived and functioned in China for more than 2 decades, Tim Clissold points out the secrets that Westerners may use to navigate through its cultural and political maze. Picking up where he kept off in the international best-seller Mr. China, Chinese Guidelines chronicles his latest exploits, with assorted Chinese bureaucrats, factory owners, and local individuals building a climate change business in China. Obviously, all does not go as planned as he discovers himself caught between the world's most significant carbon emitter and the world's richest man. Clissold offers entertaining and enlightening anecdotes of the absurdities, gaffes, and mysteries he experienced along the way. Sprinkled amid surreal views of cultural misunderstandings and near misses are smart myth-busting insights and practical lessons Westerns may use to succeed in China. Discovering key episodes in that nation's long political, military, and cultural history, Clissold outlines five Chinese Guidelines, which anyone can deploy in on-the-ground situations with modern Chinese counterparts. These Chinese rules will permit foreigners not and then cooperate with China but also to contend with it on its own terms.
