Book description
An insightful look at the future of China's relations with the West
and the United States
For anyone who wants to better understand China and its economic and
political relations to the West, On Equal Terms offers
front-row insight. Exploring China's state-capitalist economic model
and the unique qualities and ideals of Chinese culture that can make
difficult for Westerners to understand its approach to business
interactions, the book looks to the future, explaining how China and
the United States can cooperate to solve some of the world's major problems.
Covering the extraordinary changes taking place in China and China's
relationship with America and the West over ten powerful chapters, the
book looks at China's state-capitalist model of governance, how
history affects her behavior in foreign policy, how China is emerging
as an economic world power, that products are not made but assembled
in China, that China is not one big market but many markets, and much more.
- Provides an inside view on the future of China and America from an
expert with personal experience on both sides of the story
- Explains the sometimes mysterious worlds of "Guanxi" and
"Mianzi"-the notions of giving, saving, and preserving
"face" in business and cultural relationships that many
Westerners struggle to understand
- A truly up-to-date resource that gives reader's the most recent
information about Chinese-American relations
China and America need to cooperate in order to solve the major
problems of the world, and On Equal Terms gives readers the
information they need to improve their business and professional
relationships in China.
Born in China, raised in Hong Kong and educated in the United States,
including an MBA from Wharton,
Zheng Mingxun
is a businessman and politician with an international career spanning
many decades. His early working life was spent with U. S. multinationals
on assignments in New York, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Manila and
Hong Kong. In the 1990s, he chaired Inchcape Pacific Ltd., N. M.
Rothschild & Sons (HK) Ltd., as well as the Hong Kong General
Chamber of Commerce. Mingxun was active in politics as a Hong Kong
legislator and a member of the Preparatory Committee on Hong Kong's
return to Chinese sovereignty and since retiring from politics and
corporate life has chaired the Link Real Estate Investment Trust. He is
now a board member and advisor to companies in China and Asia as well as
being active in the private equity arena.
Zheng Mingxun
is the author's pinyin name in Putonghua. Like many in his generation
in Hong Kong, he also has an anglicized name and is commonly known to
his friends and associates as
Paul Cheng
.
