2012 conventions 2012 election 2013 session arts arts and culture author ballot measures basketball bomb books boy scouts budget bullying business charlie hales children clackamas climate change coal college courts crime culture culture club democrats drugs economy education environment family film fluoride food gay rights guns handguns health health care health insurance high school history housing immigration internet kitzhaber law legislature lgbt literary arts living marijuana marriage media medicine mental health military minor parties mohamed mohamud movies music native americans news newspaper obama olympics oregon our town parenting pers photography police politcs politics port portland portland business journal president prevention public safety religion republicans rnc romney rural salem sam adams sandy hook schools science shooting sports suicide supreme court taxes technology television terrorism theater third parties transportation union university of oregon washington wildfire women

As one of the participants on the To the Point show this week on doing business in China, I really appreciated the timely and interesting discussion with the other guests and your callers .

As the one Chinese guest, I also wanted to address the questions about describing Chinese culture. As some speakers said, Chinese culture is complex, but it?s also not monolithic (for example, Cantonese, Shanghainese and Beijingers are all Chinese, but exhibit different cultural characteristics as well). Also, it?s important not to confuse ?Chinese culture? with ?CCP (Chinese Communist Party) culture? and the ways of doing business that characterize this ?culture? marked by serious problems of massive corruption, lack of transparency and accountability.

A number of comments were made during the show regarding cheaper goods coming from China. But the recent problems of dangerous toys, tainted drugs and exploding tires exported from China raise the question that the ?cost? may not be that cheap.

Your audience might also be interested in the new issue of our journal, China Rights Forum: ?Human Rights: Everyone?s Business.? It can be accessed online at http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/article?revision%5fid=48012&item%5fid=47993

Thanks again to the producers for inviting HRIC to participate!

Sharon Hom
Executive Director
Human Rights in China

posted 5 years, 1 month ago
view in context