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Value Investing

Investing in China

 

 

 

 

Investing In China: Environment and Practices

 

1.      The Relevance of China as an Economic Competitor and Business Partner: So What’s the Big Deal?

2.      China Overview: Geography, History, People, Culture, Politics, Economy

3.      China as an Opportunity: Economic Zones, Key Industries-Markets, and Venture Forms

4.      Legal Environment of Business: Institutions, Trade Regulations, and Standards

5.      Taxes, Labor, and Legal Disputes

6.      Intellectual Property Rights in China

7.      Selling U.S. Products and Services

8.      Trade and Project Financing

9.      Chinese Cult of Face, Culture Shock and Business Etiquette

10.  Guanxi: Bargain, and Negotiation

11.  Guanxi: Corruption and Business Dealing

12.  Venture Investing, Mergers and Acquisitions

13.  Value Investing and Its Application in China

14.  Investing in Stocks and Real Estate

15.  Chinese Entrepreneurs and Investing in China's Future

 

Reference:

 

Business General:

1.      Mike Saxon: An American's Guide to Doing Business in China: Negotiating Contracts And Agreements; Understanding Culture And Customs; Marketing Products And Services, Adams Media Corporation (December 2006)

2.      Xiaowen Tian: Managing International Business in China, Cambridge University Press (May 14, 2007)

3.      Yadong Luo: How to Enter China: Choices and Lessons, University of Michigan Press (February 1, 2001)

4.      Jonathan Reuvid: Business Insights: China: Practical Advice on Entry Strategy and Engagement, Kogan Page (March 1, 2008)

5.      Harold Chee, Chris West: Myths About Doing Business in China, Palgrave Macmillan (February 10, 2005)

6.      Frankie Chan: A Business Guide to China: 15 Fallacies of Investing in China, AuthorHouse (January 6, 2003)

7.      Lord Brittan: Doing Business with China, GMB Publishing; 5th Revised ed. edition (July 25, 2006)

8.      Birgit Zinzius: Doing Business in the New China: A Handbook and Guide, Praeger Publishers (August 30, 2004)

9.      Robert Hsu Wiley: China Fireworks: How to Make Dramatic Wealth from the Fastest-Growing Economy in the World, 1 edition (May 2, 2008)

 

Business Specific:

10.  James McGregor: One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China, Free Press (October 11, 2005)

11.  Tarun Khanna: Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours, Harvard Business School Press

12.  Tom Doctoroff: Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer, Palgrave Macmillan (December 22, 2005)

13.  Peter Levenda: The Mao of Business: Guerrilla Trade Techniques for the New China, Continuum International Publishing Group (October 15, 2007)

14.  James Vincent Lord: The Essential Guide for Buying from China's Manufacturers: The 10 Steps to Success, BookSurge Publishing (May 16, 2007)

15.  Pierre Xiao Lu: Elite China: Luxury Consumer Behavior in China, Wiley (August 29, 2008)

16.  Jing Wang: Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture, Harvard University Press (January 31, 2008)

17.  Alexandra Harney: The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage, Penguin Press HC, The (March 27, 2008)

18.  Ming Zeng, Peter J. Williamson: Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition, Harvard Business School Press (June 12, 2007)

19.  Mary Elizabeth Gallagher: Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China, Princeton University Press (July 5, 2005)

 

Business Management:

20.  Wei Wang: The China Executive: Marrying Western and Chinese Strengths to Generate Profitability from Your Investment in China, 2W Publishing Ltd (October 25, 2006)

21.  Jimmy Hexter, Jonathan Woetzel: Operation China: From Strategy to Execution, Harvard Business School Press (December 18, 2007)

22.  Ilan Alon: Chinese Culture, Organizational Behavior, and International Business Management, Praeger Publishers (February 28, 2003)

23.  Frank T. Gallo: Business Leadership In China: How to Blend Best Western Practices with Chinese Wisdom, Wiley (August 1, 2008)

24.  Chao-Chuan Chen, Yueh-Ting Lee: Leadership and Management in China: Philosophies, Theories, and Practices, Cambridge University Press (July 7, 2008)

25.  Frank Sieren, Englebert Boos, and Christine Boos: China Management Handbook: The Comprehensive Question and Answer Guide to the World's Most Important Emerging Market, Palgrave Macmillan (November 29, 2002)

26.  Yanni Yan: Foreign Investment and Corporate Governance in China, Palgrave Macmillan (February 10, 2005)

27.  Stephen Todd Rudman: The Multinational Corporation in China: Controlling Interests, Wiley-Blackwell (September 11, 2006)

 

All About GuanXi:

28.  Yadong Luo: Guanxi and Business, World Scientific Publishing Company; 2 edition (February 27, 2007)

29.  Thomas Gold, Doug Guthrie, and David Wank: Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi, Cambridge University Press (September 23, 2002)

30.  Eike A. Langenberg: Guanxi and Business Strategy: Theory and Implications for Multinational Companies in China, Physica-Verlag Heidelberg; 1 edition (June 28, 2007)

31.  Ying Lun So, Anthony Walker: Explaining Guanxi: The Chinese Business Network, Routledge; 1 edition (February 14, 2006)

32.  Y. H. Wong (Author), Thomas K. P. Leung: Guanxi : Relationship Marketing in a Chinese Context, Routledge; 1 edition (August 16, 2001)

 

Negotiations in China:

33.  Lucian W. Pye: Chinese Negotiating Style: Commercial Approaches and Cultural Principles, Quorum Books (February 28, 1992) 

34.  Robert M. March, Su-Hua Wu: The Chinese Negotiator: How to Succeed in the World's Largest Market, Kodansha International (December 15, 2006)

35.  Tony Fang: Chinese Business Negotiating Style, Sage Publications, Inc; 1 edition (November 24, 1998)

36.  Carolyn Blackman: Negotiating China: Case Studies and Strategies, Allen & Unwin Academic (September 1, 1998)

37.  Laurence J. Brahm: The Art of the Deal in China: A Practical Guide to Business Etiquette and the 36 Martial Strategies Employed by Chinese Businessmen and Officials in China, Tuttle Publishing (April 15, 2007)

 

Legal Issues:

38.  Michael J. Moser: Managing Business Disputes in Today's China: Duelling with Dragons, Kluwer Law International (March 7, 2007)

39.  Cch Asia: Resolving Business Disputes in China, Kluwer Law International (August 30, 2005)

40.  Rebecca Ordish, Alan Adcock: China Intellectual Property - Challenges and Solutions: An Essential Business Guide, Wiley (May 12, 2008)

41.  Cch Asia: China Intellectual Property Law Guide, Kluwer Law International (November 30, 2005)

42.  Seung Chong: The Law and Practice of Mergers & Acquisitions in the People's Republic of China, Oxford University Press, USA (December 15, 2007)

43.  Lusong Zhang: Regulation of Foreign Mergers and Acquisitions Involving Companies Listed in China, Kluwer Law International (September 12, 2007)

44.  Mark E. Schaub: China: The Art of Law - Chronicling Deals, Disasters, Greed, Stupidity and Occasional Success in the New China, Kluwer Law International (August 16, 2007)

45.  Hui Huang: China's Takeover Law: Regulation and Reform, Vandeplas Publishing; 1st edition (January 1, 2007)

46.  Shoushuang Li: The Legal Environment and Risks for Foreign Investment in China, Springer; 1 edition (February 21, 2007)

47.  Xiaowen Tian: Law and Investment in China, Taylor & Francis; 1 edition (March 14, 2007)

48.  Press, jshop.javvin.com, and Jielin Dong: China Business Laws and Regulations, Business Press (March 20, 2008)

49.  Cch Asia: Tax Planning for Expatriates in China, Aspen Publishers (August 12, 2005)

 

Investment:

50.  K. Thomas Liaw: Investment Banking and Investment Opportunities in China: A Comprehensive Guide for Finance Professionals, Wiley (July 27, 2007)

51.  Salih N. Neftci, Michelle Yuan Menager-Xu: China's Financial Markets: An Insider's Guide to How the Markets Work, Academic Press; 1 edition (November 21, 2006)

52.  Li Yang, Robert Lawrence Kuhn: China's Banking and Financial Markets: The Internal Research Report of the Chinese Government, Wiley (April 13, 2007)

53.  Joe Y Eng: China Investment Environment & Strategies: The Key to Winning in the Greater China Market, iUniverse, Inc. (June 16, 2005)

54.  Jonsson Yinya Li: Investing in China: The Emerging Venture Capital Industry, GMB Publishing (June 1, 2005)

55.  Winston Ma: Investing in China: New Opportunities in a Transforming Stock Market, Risk Books (April 3, 2006)

56.  Jim Rogers: A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market,  Random House (December 4, 2007)

57.  James Trippon: Becoming Your Own China Stock Guru: The Ultimate Investor's Guide to Profiting from China's Economic Boom, Wiley (April 25, 2008)

58.  Burton G. Malkiel, Patricia A. Taylor, Jianping Mei, Rui Yang: From Wall Street to the Great Wall: How Investors Can Profit from China's Booming Economy, W. W. Norton (December 17, 2007)

59.  Cesar Felipe Bacani: The China Investor: Getting Rich with the Next Superpower, Wiley; 1st edition (December 27, 2002)

 

Business Cases:

60.  Jack Perkowski: Managing the Dragon: How I'm Building a Billion-Dollar Business in China, Crown Business; 1 edition (March 18, 2008)

61.  Warren Liu: KFC in China: Secret Recipe for Success, Wiley (September 26, 2008)

62.  James Watson: Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, Stanford University Press; 2 edition (March 14, 2006)

63.  Robert Buderi, Gregory T. Huang: Guanxi (The Art of Relationships): Microsoft, China, and Bill Gates's Plan to Win the Road Ahead, Simon & Schuster (May 15, 2007)

64.  Steven H. Davis: Inside China Investment Corp: How China's Mega-Sovereign Wealth Fund is Buying the World, McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (September 12, 2008)

65.  Juan Antonio Fernandez, Laurie Underwood: China Entrepreneurs: Voices of Experience from 40 Business Pioneers, Wiley (February 3, 2009)

66.  Juan Antonio Fernandez, Liu Shengjun: China CEO: A Case Guide for Business Leaders in China, Wiley (June 22, 2007)

67.  Juan Antonio Fernandez, Laurie Underwood: China CEO: Voices of Experience from 20 International Business Leaders, Wiley (April 15, 2006)

68.  Tim Clissold: Mr. China: A Memoir (2004)

69.  Jack Leblanc: Business Republic of China: Tales from the front line of China's new revolution, Blacksmith Books (April 15, 2008)

 

Industries and Sectors:

70.  Cyrill Eltschinger: Source Code China: The New Global Hub of IT (Information Technology) Outsourcing, Wiley (October 5, 2007)

71.  Rebecca Fannin: Silicon Dragon: How China Is Winning the Tech Race, McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (January 18, 2008)

72.  Adam Segal: Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China, Cornell University Press (November 2002)

73.  Yu Zhou: The Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry: Making Silicon Valley in Beijing, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (December 28, 2007)

74.  Chien-Hsun Chen, Hui-Tzu Shih, and Jianxun Chen: High-tech Industries In China, Edward Elgar Publishing (May 5, 2005)

75.  Yuezhi Zhao: Communication in China: Political Economy, Power, and Conflict, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (March 28, 2008)

76.  G. Festel, A. Kreimeyer, U. Oels, and M. von Zedtwitz: The Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry in China: Opportunities and Threats for Foreign Companies, Springer; 1 edition (July 26, 2005)

77.  Robert Baensch: The Publishing Industry in China, Transaction Publishers (July 11, 2003)

78.  Michael Pecht: China's Electronics Industry, William Andrew Publishing (August 20, 2006)

79.  Qiwen Lu: China's Leap into the Information Age: Innovation and Organization in the Computer Industry, Oxford University Press, USA (September 21, 2000)

80.  Ling Liu: China's Industrial Policies and the Global Business Revolution: The Case of the Domestic Appliance Industry, Routledge; 1 edition (August 9, 2005)

81.  Roger Cliff, Keith Crane, James C. Mulvenon, and Evan S. Medeiros: New Direction for China's Defense Industry, RAND Corporation (July 30, 2005)

82.  Rui Huaichuan: Globalisation, Transition and Development in China: The Case of the Coal Industry, RoutledgeCurzon; 1 edition (December 3, 2004)

83.  Scott A. Waldron, Colin G. Brown, and John W. Longworth: Rural Development in China: Insights from the Beef Industry, Ashgate Publishing (December 2003)

84.  Mark Dougan: A Political Economy Analysis of China's Civil Aviation Industry, Routledge; 1 edition (August 30, 2002)

85.  Tai Ming Cheung: China's Entrepreneurial Army, Oxford University Press, USA (February 7, 2002)

86.  Jin Zhang: Catch-Up and Competitiveness in China: The Case of Large Firms in the Oil Industry, RoutledgeCurzon; 1 edition (April 9, 2004)

87.  Miao Zhang: Telecommunications and Electronic Media Industries in China- A Portrayal in Western News, VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K. (June 11, 2007)

88.  Ding Lu and Chee Kong Wong: China's Telecommunications Market: Entering a New Competitive Age, Edward Elgar Publishing (January 2004)

89.  Eric Harwit: China's Telecommunications Revolution, Oxford University Press, USA (May 15, 2008)

90.  Chien-Hsun Chen and Hui-Tzu Shih: Banking and Insurance in the New China: Competition and the Challenge of Accession to the Wto, Edward Elgar Publishing (March 2004)

91.  Eric Thun: Changing Lanes in China: Foreign Direct Investment, Local Governments, and Auto Sector Development, Cambridge University Press (January 16, 2006)

92.  Yadong Luo: China's Service Sector: A New Battlefield for International Corporations, Copenhagen Business School Press (October 2001)

 

Chinese Economy:

93.  Frank S. Fang: China Fever: Fascination, Fear, and the World’s Next Superpower, Stone Bridge Press (Oct. 2007)

94.  Yan Sun: Corruption and Market In Contemporary China, Cornell University Press (September 30, 2004)

95.  Jinglian Wu: Understanding and Interpreting Chinese Economic Reform, Texere; 1 edition (December 14, 2005)

96.  Gregory C. Chow: China's Economic Transformation, Wiley-Blackwell; 2 edition (February 9, 2007)

97.  Kellee S. Tsai: Capitalism Without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China, Cornell University Press (August 2007)

98.  Tarun Khanna: Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours, Harvard Business School Press (January 21, 2008)

99.  Carl E. Walter, Fraser J. T. Howie: Privatizing China: The Stock Markets and their Role in Corporate Reform, Wiley (June 25, 2003)

100.          Yasheng Huang: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State, Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (September 30, 2008)

101.          Barbara Krug: China's Rational Entrepreneurs: The development of the new private sector, RoutledgeCurzon; 1 edition (March 2, 2004)

102.          Craig K. Elwell: Is China a Threat to the U.S. Economy? Nova Science Publishers (October 2008)

103.          Deepak Bhattasali, Shantong Li, and Will Martin: China and the WTO: Accession, Policy Reform, and Poverty Reduction Strategies, World Bank Publication (July 2004)

104.          Morris Goldstein and Nicholas R. Lardy: Debating China's Exchange Rate Policy, Peterson Institute; 1 edition (April 11, 2008)

105.          Tu Hong: Foreign Exchange Control in China, Kluwer Law International (September 7, 2005)

106.          Richard C.K. Burdekin: China's Monetary Challenges: Past Experiences and Future Prospects, Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (July 7, 2008)

107.          Yee Wong and Ketki Sheth: US-China Trade Disputes: Rising Tide, Rising Stakes, Institute for International Economics (August 25, 2006)

 

Business Etiquette and Chinese Culture:

108.          Scott D. Seligman: Chinese Business Etiquette: A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in the People's Republic of China (A Revised and Updated Edition of "Dealing with the Chinese"), Grand Central Publishing; Subsequent edition (March 1, 1999)

109.          Ge Gao and Stella W.C. Ting-Toomey: Communicating Effectively with the Chinese, Sage Publications, Inc; 1 edition (June 10, 1998)

110.          Andrew Williamson: The Chinese Business Puzzle: How to Work More Effectively with Chinese Cultures, How to Books (January 31, 2004)

111.          Wang Yuan, Yuan Wang, Xin Sheng Zhang, and Rob Goodfellow: An Insider's Guide: Business Culture in China, Butterworth-Heinemann; 1st edition (February 1999)

112.          Francis L.K. Hsu, Americans and Chinese: Passage to Difference, The University Press of Hawaii (1953, 1981 new edition)

113.          Richard Nisbett: The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why, Free Press (March 30, 2004)

114.          TU Weiming, Beyond the Enlightenment Mentality: The Humanistic Spirit in the 21st Century

115.          TU Weiming, The Confucian World

116.          Jiaying Howard, Tsengtseng Chang: Business Chinese, The Chinese University Press (June 8, 2005)

 

Chinese Politics:

117.          Yang Zhong: Local Government and Politics in China: Challenges from Below, M.E. Sharpe (June 2003)

118.          June Teufel Dreyer: China's Political System, Longman; 6 edition (July 27, 2007)

119.          David Shambaugh: China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation, University of California Press; 1 edition (April 2, 2008)

120.          Zhengyuan Fu: Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics, Cambridge University Press (January 28, 1994)

121.          David M. Lampton: The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds, University of California Press; 1 edition (April 30, 2008)

122.          Suisheng Zhao: Debating Political Reform in China: Rule of Law Vs. Democratization, M.E. Sharpe (June 30, 2006)

123.          Cheng Li: China's Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy, Brookings Institution Press (April 1, 2008)

 

Political Perspectives:

124.          Suzanne Ogden: Inklings of Democracy in China, Harvard University Asia Center (July 15, 2002)

125.          Daniel A. Bell: Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context, Princeton University Press (July 24, 2006)

126.          Daniel A. Bell: East Meets West, Princeton University Press (May 8, 2000)

127.          Stephen C. Angle: Human Rights in Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

128.          Kishore Mahbubani: The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East, PublicAffairs; 1 edition (January 22, 2008)

129.          Robert A. Dahl, Democracy and Its Critics, Yale University Press (July 24, 1991)

130.          Bryan Caplan: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, Princeton University Press (April 16, 2007)

131.          Jack L. Snyder: From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict, W. W. Norton & Company (August 2000)

132.          Fareed Zakaria: The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, W. W. Norton & Company (2003)

133.          Drew Westen: The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation, PublicAffairs (June 25, 2007)