Book Description
Mr. China tells the rollicking story of a young man who goes to China with the misguided notion that he will help bring the Chinese into the modern world, only to be schooled by the most resourceful and creative operators he would ever meet. Part memoir, part parable, Mr. China is one man's coming-of-age story where he learns to respect and admire the nation he sought to conquer.
Customer Reviews:
Mr. China explains a lot.......2007-08-31
Having just returned from a 3-week trip to China, reading Mr. China helped explain a lot about what I had seen. Now that I read all the problems with Chinese produced products, Mr. China explains even more about the mindset of both Chinese and westerners. We Americans seem to think everyone should think and function as we do. Mr. China illustrates how wrong that is.
A Compelling Read .......2007-01-30
I found this book a terrific glimpse of one man's experience investing in China. Tim Clissold spent several years traversing mainland China trying to get in on the ground floor with the entrepenuers driving China's economic boom. Along the way he encounters a fascinating cast of characters who are markedly different from those we are familiar with in the U.S. A real page-turner for anyone wanting a glimpse into what doing business in China is like.
Chronicles of the Vietnam War of American business.......2007-01-04
The book is a moving firsthand account of a foreign investor set out to invest in mainland China during the 1990s, when China first started opening up its markets. Apparently the author Tim Clissold worked for Arthur Andersen Hong Kong, alongside an ex-Wall Street M&A professional identified only as Pat in the book, to invest in China roughly $400 million of private equity funds in the form of joint ventures.
To fast-forward to the end of the memoir, 10 years after the author's team made investments in China, no one does joint ventures anymore. With the wrecks of failed joint ventures littered across China, Pat describes China as "the Vietnam War of American business." The author claims that, "all but the most innocent of newcomers had concluded that joint ventures were just too hard to be worth it."
Speaking of hardship, the book in its essence is really a telling of the hardships the author encountered in fighting to salvage three particular joint ventures. In those three "war stories" the Chinese partners invariably cheat by siphoning out money to build factories for direct competition to the joint ventures. The tactics the partners employ are intrinsically Chinese, and ironically through these battles Clissold gains deep insight into Chinese culture.
What is amazing about the author is the fact that he always manages to transcend the fights no matter how bitter they were fought. During the fights he holds his worthy opponents in reverence, as ancient Chinese generals must have done; after the battles he makes friends with them whenever possible.
In the end Clissold conjectures that the Chinese will always remain Chinese regardless the pressure to conform to international conventions. In his own words: "I had been forced to dismantle entirely my assumptions about China and relearn all the basics, but many investors still appeared supremely confident that China would eventually view the world their way, that it would eventually 'see reason' and begin to conform to the familiar business school model. But as China continues to press ahead with opening up to the world at a speed that can be astounding, my hunch is that it will always retain an intense sense of its own place in world history. It remains more complex, more aware of its unique 'Chineseness' and in tune with its own past, and mush less conformist than can be imagined by visitors like Charlene Barshevsky, the US trade representative who described the World Telecoms Agreement as 'a triumph for the American way.' We'll see."
The memoir is touted as a business book. Personally I think there is more to take from it when viewed as a cultural voyage to a country during treacherous times.
Captivating business tales from the 1990s.......2006-12-14
A colleague of mine at work recommended this book to me, right after I had finished another book on China, James Kynge's "China Shakes the World", which I really liked.
"Mr. China" (286 pages) brings the perspective of a young Brit who clearly has a passion for China (and Manadarin), goes to study there in the late 80s (with some funny stories about life in the Chinese university dorms), and then returns a few years later to work for a US investment fund looking for joint venture opportunities. Ultimatey, about $400 million is invested in various manufacturing companies throughout China. A lot of things go wrong, although some good successes are scored too. Throughout this process, the author gives great insight on what it's like to be there, taking on problems "in the trenches", and how to better appreciate and understand China and its people.
The book feels a little dated in a way not only because the events decribed take place up through the late 1990s, but perhaps even more so because, as the author readily admits in the last chapter, the joint venture business model is no longer viewed as the best one (many companies these days go about it on their own, without a Chinese partner). That aside, this is a very worthwhile book that certainly achieved its intended goal for me, as the autor notes in the concluding paragraph: "If by writing this book I can make the Chinese people seem more human, less mysterious or threatening, just flawed and beautiful like us, then the troubles of the past ten years will all have been worthwhile". Highly recommended!
A terrifying tale, BUT how do we take the China challenge?.......2006-11-13
This is a beautiful - although terrifying - account of one Westerner's adventure in the challenging China business environment.
Indeed, it reads like a fiction until the very last paragraph, i.e. "If by writing this book I can make the Chinese people seem more human, less mysterious or threatening, just flawed and beautiful like us, then the troubles of the past ten years will all have been worthwhile." As such, I am not sure whether the author has been successful in achieving his goal.
What's more, the author did not even attempt to answer the big question: How to succeed in China? (The answer to this question matters many times more than a personal story no matter how gripping the story is.)
To find the answer to this question, you have to read Dr Wei Wang's The China Executive: Marrying Western and Chinese Strengths to Generate Profitability from Your Investment in China, which provides a roadmap to success in China.
Extremely practical, The China Executive explodes many popular myths about doing business in China, reveals the nature of the Chinese people, and rises to the China investment challenge.
I am particularly inspired by the author's idea of combining modern Western management excellence with ancient Chinese leadership wisdom. Indeed, while the West has developed advanced modern management theories, which are about organisation, the leadership wisdom - which is about human emotions - advocated 2,500 years ago by such ancient gurus as Confucius, Lao Tzu and Sun Tzu has been timeless.
In short, I recommend The China Executive because it will immediately enlighten you in your dealings with China.
Book Description
After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, Gillian Kendall embarks on a strange journey with no ports of call but exotic emotional landscapes. She is the only female aboard, surrounded by Chinese men. The cosmopolitan graduate student suddenly has to adjust to an alien world, thick with cigarette smoke, unusual sea creatures, and male sexuality. Kendall invites readers to travel with her across cultural divides as deep and mysterious as the Pacific while she explores her own culture, orientation, and heart.
Customer Reviews:
An expat ESL teacher loves this book but, doesn't care for chicken feet either!.......2007-05-03
I spent the academic year of 1999/2000 teaching English in Shenzhen. I spoke no Chinese, at the time, and had no formal teaching experience. So I could definitely relate to Gillian's frustrations, culture shock, and malentendus. It's 1991 and Gillian is a grad student in Galveston, TX. The semester is coming to a close and she spies an ad on the bulletin board for an ESL teacher aboard a ship sailing from Shanghai to Galveston. After a hard sell Gillian manages to land the job aboard the all male ship. The company flies her to Shanghai where she boards the ship. The reader witnesses her feelings about being the only woman on the ship; loneliness and some sexual harassment egged on by the only other American on board. She experiences a Sapphic awakening as she realizes in her state of isolation that she doesn't have any romantic feelings for her boyfriend. She manages to break through the cultural, gender, and language barriers to form some attachments to her students and especially Mr. Ding, the cook. The book is riddled with faux pas but the funniest part, I would say, is when she saves Mr. Ding by hurling the violent Panamanian vendor into the Canal.
Mr Ding's is good reading.......2007-03-20
Everyone loves an adventure (or at least reading of one) and most of us will never take a boat from China to America. Envious of this one, I curled up by my fireplace and read Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet with a taste for the fascinating journey of a Caucasian woman on a boat full of Asian men. I was not disappointed.
The author sets sail on an ocean of cultural difference and wins over the hearts of the crew - a rough and salty bunch who sit spellbound by her in English class.
Because of the obvious vast expanse of ocean to cross, you know that the author is going to have to face a few things she has probably never had to before, and deal with them. There is, after all, no escape on a small boat in the middle of the ocean.
Kendall reveals the color of the crew over the course of the journey as if she were polishing up tarnished brass. It was great fun to read about the men as they blossom at the hand of their teacher...though the revelations were not one-sided.
Not surprisingly, I felt the poignancy at the sight of land, which meant having to say goodbye.
Kendall writes with an unpretentious clarity, humor and heart. I definitely recommend it.
From Ji Lian's best friend.......2007-03-20
Ji Lians book very good. Makes me laugh. Have to laugh and wake up husband to read good part. I like this book. I like especially page where I am mention. I am Li. I am beautiful asian/american. Not Chinese. I too, don't like chicken feet.
Risk Taker's Journey Vindicated.......2007-01-14
In Mr Ding's Chicken Feet, the author, Gillian Kendall, comes across at first as maybe a little naive and unwary. She is a risk-taker. Her apparent lack of serious doubt about the whole enterprise, her trust in her fellow human beings not to harm her and her faith that it would all work out made me a little nervous on her behalf. But she is vindicated by the experience and it is her empathy and geniality that are the keys to her success. Observing Kendall's openness to life and her willingness to reach out across cultures became one of the pleasures of reading the book. A cynical reader such as I am found it instructive to watch her interest in humanity unfold and be repaid.
Her story really takes off once the ship leaves shore. Then it leaves behind any experience I and probably most readers have had. Shipboard life with a completely male crew who mostly speak very fractured English seems so weird and challenging that you half expect the book to be a story of failure -- perhaps noble failure but depressing nonetheless. So it's very satisfying that she actually makes a difference to the sailors' English and lives. She is inventive in her methods and determined to give her employers their money's worth and thereby wins the crew's respect and affection.
Kendall can write -- just see her description of the terrible storm at sea. It had me rigid with tension. Shades of Conrad in Typhoon. She has a distinctive and likable tone of voice. The book tells an optimistic story in an unpretentious way and gives you faith in the power of empathic teachers (and English!).
Absorbing entertainment!.......2007-01-03
Only a woman confident in her own sense of humor and adventure would have taken a job as the lone female and one of only two English-speakers on a boat far from shore. Gillian jumps on board with both feet, well-equipped with teaching materials and ideas. In short order some of her ideas are altered, replaced, or simply scrapped and thrown overboard. As she describes her daily struggles to accommodate vast cultural differences while at the same time trying to actually teach useful language, she offers sensitive analysis of the characters that make up the crew. Touching but funny interactions with the sometimes reverential sailors and vibrant descriptions of the nautical environment make this book a delight to read and a struggle to stop reading.
Book Description
"Devotees of American Civil War literature should find their horizons broadened and their understanding of the war enhanced by this book."
—Donald S. Frazier, author of
Cottonclads! The Battle of Galveston and the Defense of the Texas Coast
The Civil War history of Galveston is one of the last untold stories from America's bloodiest war, despite the fact that Galveston was a focal point of hostilities throughout the conflict. As other Southern ports fell to the Union, Galveston emerged as one of the Confederacy's only lifelines to the outside world. When the war ended in 1865, Galveston was the only major port still in Confederate hands.
In this beautifully written narrative history, Ed Cotham draws upon years of archival and on-site research, as well as rare historical photographs, drawings, and maps, to chronicle the Civil War years in Galveston. His story encompasses all the military engagements that took place in the city and on Galveston Bay, including the dramatic Battle of Galveston, in which Confederate forces retook the city on New Year's Day, 1863.
Cotham sets the events in Galveston within the overall conduct of the war, revealing how the city's loss was a great strategic impediment to the North. Through his pages pass major figures of the era, as well as ordinary soldiers, sailors, and citizens of Galveston, whose courage in the face of privation and danger adds an inspiring dimension to the story.
Customer Reviews:
Entertaining and informative study of Galveston's part in the Civil War.......2007-01-21
Don't let the title mislead you, "Battle on the Bay" is much more than a battle monograph. It is a thorough retelling of the actions of the important gulf port city of Galveston, Texas throughout the war. Author Edward Cotham reviews the politics and early war action. He then takes the reader through the 1862 Federal seizure of the port and the brilliant cottonclad attack that recovered the city for the Confederacy. He also reviews the naval and blockade running activity through the end of the war.
Cotham's narrative is very entertaining and easy to read while at the same time providing the reader a wider understanding of Galveston's place in the war. Despite his obvious enthusiasm for the subject, the author maintains a balanced tone. I especially enjoyed the amusing anecdotes about "Prince John" Magruder's colorful and at times brilliant actions. Cotham does a great job of reviewing anecdotes and events from Galveston's wartime history that provide good sense of the problems facing a city under friendly and enemy occupation.
The book is well illustrated and has some useful maps of the outlines of fortifications by Don Frazier. Frazier's map of the fight at Kuhn's wharf is helpful and critical to understanding the unique battlefield, but it might have been more so if it had some unit labels on the CSA side as well as a wider view of the surroundings as well as a scale. Lacking in the text itself is a detailed order of battle for the CSA units engaged, commanders, and a breakdown of each unit's substantial casualties.
I recommend this book to those interested in understanding the Civil War in Texas and particularly to anyone trying to understand the very important strategic coastal war. As a detailed military study, I found Cotham's work about Sabine Pass more compact and focused, while this text about Galveston will appeal to those interested in a wider overview of the war along the Texas coast.
Union forces had captured Galveston which was the key to Texas!.......2006-07-04
"Gen. Magruder will attack the Yankees at Galveston by water and land tommorrow night...If the Yankees fight well it will be a desperate affair & our loss maybe terrible, but if we succeed entirely of which I think there are reasonable hopes it will be a brilliant affair. Galveston will certainly suffer great injury, and may be entirely destroyed. I don't care for this if the enemey can be capture. "
William Pitt Ballinger, December 30, 1862
I bought this book last August (2005) while on vacation to Galveston. A shop (on the Strand) in one of the buildings that survived. I walked the down town area and there are few marks that a battle was fought there. Some bullet holes and marks on walls can be found. There are Historical markers but I wish there was more. Like maybe the smoke in the air from cannons and Men rushing the docks with bayonet musktes :) Galveston does have awesome beaches and this is a very fun book. I could not put the book down once I started reading! Included are good maps and photo's of what happen.
What would you do as Gen. Magruder as you face a superior enemy fortified on Kuhn's Wharf (and with control of the city/island) with the USS Navy backing him up in the bay? The outcome of Texas is in your hands!
Battle on the Bay.......2004-01-26
A very detail oriented and illuminating book. I have no trouble recommending this book to any serious student of american history.
Amusing........2003-12-13
This is a true, factual account of how a handful of Texans recaptured the Port of Galveston during the Civil War. But it is a book intended, or at least should be intended, for local consumption only.
Ya gotta love Texans. I do and I am very proud to be one. But to understand us, like any other race, creed or culture, you have to understand our language. We love bombast, tall tales and, well, whoppers! We revel in them, enjoy them immensely. The bigger they are, the more outrageous they are, the better they are. No one will pull your leg quicker than a Texan. Why tell a wimpy whopper? There is no earthly reason for that kind of behavior. It is certainly nothing a true Texan would do. If you are going to swing, go for the fences.
And that is what the author has done here. Only a Texan could take a minor firefight and turn it into liberation! Men did fight and die here, ships were captured and some prisoners were taken. I do not want to denigrate the heroic bravery of the Northern and Southern soldiers who fought and died in this engagement. But really, to subtitle this book The Civil War Struggle for Galveston is silly. This wasn't Shiloh, Chickamauga, Vicksburg or Gettysburg. Four Union ships stopped by, landed a hundred or so soldiers and got gobbled up due to inadequate support. This happened thousands of times to both sides during the four years of the war.
Sorry guys, nothing of significance happened in Texas during the war. It was just too far from the scene of the contest to have an overland impact and the Federal Navy and capture of New Orleans and Vicksburg rendered Texas completely unnecessary as a theater of operations.
Battle on the Bay.......2003-11-11
I have found Edward T. Gorham's book "Battle ON The Bay" a very thoughtful read. He not only gave the history of the battle of Galveston, he also informed you on the accounts of all the events leading up to Siege of Galveston. But also thoroughly developed the Commanding Officers of both the Union and Confederacy, in this battle, which occurred New Years day, 1863. "BATTLE ON THE BAY" also informs the reader of the accounts from the Confederatec victory to the end of the war. This book had humor as well as excitement. I could not put this book down. Every page held my attention, and I wondered what the next page contained. This book did a good job on informing me about the history of the area where I live.
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It's hard to imagine nine United States senators whose politics span the spectrum sitting down to dinner together on a regular basis--unless they're the nine women who currently call the Senate home. Barbara Mikulski, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Mary Landrieu, and Blanche L. Lincoln share something deeper than their political proclivities: gender has been the strongest characteristic of their personal and professional lives, and each one has overcome enormous obstacles to reach the old boys' club that is the Senate. As evidence of their remarkable camaraderie, they've now collaborated to share their stories in the hopes of encouraging other women to follow suit. The women write with candor about dealing with sexual stereotypes, facing tragedies, and proving themselves in a world that presents them with an ever-shifting teeterboard of proper feminine behavior.
Their stories range from surprising to shocking to illuminating. Included are Dianne Feinstein's account of the assassination of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and her unexpected rise to power, and the string of deaths that shaped Olympia Snowe into the independent person she is. The senators also share how they have balanced family with work, and in the process brought issues to the Senate floor not previously considered, such as child care, domestic violence, and homemaker retirement accounts (as well as the refreshing sight of small children). What is most impressive is their collaborative spirit, drawn from the traditional female training ground of local grass-roots endeavors and an emphasis on relationship and negotiation. When 64-year-old Barbara Boxer was born, becoming a senator was practically an unthinkable idea. Now, as the senior female senator, she welcomes each new woman who joins the ranks, whether Democrat or Republican, and teaches her the ropes. As partisan squabbles in Congress stymie any real progress, this book makes a strong case for the need for more women in positions of power and demonstrates that getting there is no longer a fantasy. --Lesley Reed
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The Women of the United States Senate have forever changed the political landscape. Their backgrounds, personal styles, and political ideals may be as diverse as the nation they serve. Yet they share a commonality that runs deeper than politics or geography -- they desire to give a voice to all their constituents while serving as role models for women young and old.
Once every month, these distinguished women for an informal dinner to share their knowledge, their hearts, and a good meal. Leaving behind partisanship and rhetoric, they discuss and debate the issues, both political and personal, affecting their lives. And following the 2000 election of four women to the Senate, the table is now set for thirteen. Weaving together their individual stories of triumph, adversity, adaptability, and leadership, Nine and Counting gives voice to these charismatic women as never before, offering a rare, insider's glimpse into Washington and sending the powerful message that membership in the "world's most exclusive club" is open to every woman in America.
Customer Reviews:
Reaching for the Pinnacle of Public Service.......2006-10-27
"Nine and Counting" is a book that captures the feeling of good cheer felt among many women in early 2000 when nine different women found themselves serving in the U.S. Senate. The women who earned membership in this prestigious political body include Barbara Mikulski (Maryland), Kay Bailey Hutchison (Texas), Dianne Feinstein (California), Barbara Boxer (California), Patty Murray (Washington), Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine), Mary Landrieu (Louisiana), and Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas). Each of these women has some stories and experiences to share and many of them will surprise but also inspire the average reader.
With each of these nine women, the author spends a little bit of time talking about the important facts to gain an understanding about where each came from and where each is headed. Backgrounds of each of the nine women are discussed, along with a little information on their life before politics and their personal decision to run for the U.S. Senate. Important political battles are also highlighted, with each of the women sharing with the reader what it was like to ram heads with some of the men in the senate- men who did not always appreciate that there were now women in the ranks.
Each of these nine women is different and has her own unique personality as well as distinct governing style but they all share certain things in common. Like the book says, most all of these ladies never dreamed they would one day be serving in the U.S. Senate. The opportunity for this type of career was too far- fetched prior to the modern era to make election victory realistic. Until recently, only boys were told that they could one day reach the pinnacle of U.S. politics and serve in the Congress or the Presidency. Girls were not told this and hence almost none of them even bothered to fantasize about serving in the highest offices of government. These nine women, however, did think about public service in various other capacities and it was these other offices that served as a launching pad for making it all the way to the U.S. Senate. Diane Feinstein, for example, once served as Mayor of San Francisco. Mary Landrieu got her start in the Louisiana State Legislature. These public offices and others liked them served as stepping stones to the race for the U.S. Senate.
This book is organized in a way that some will find enjoyable but others may not like at all. Author Catherine Whitney divides the book into sections within each chapter that include her own writing and sections that include the actual words of the nine women for whom this book is dedicated. Whenever one of the nine is about to speak, the individual name is written out above the text and the section is set aside from the rest of the text with bars above and below it. This makes it easy to find the actual words of one of these nine women and to separate them from the contributions of the author.
Most of this book offers good reading and many will be inspired by the courageous actions taken by these women to serve the public and do what they felt was right. But there is one bad thing about a book like this one: It becomes outdated very quickly. This book was published in the summer of 2001 and since that time, another five women have been added to the Senate, bringing the total to fifteen. As soon as the next Election Day has passed, this number could easily change again. Because of this problem, this is the type of book that outdates itself in a very short time.
The writing in this book is good, but it's a little simplistic and more sophisticated readers will find its content inadequate. The way it is written makes me wonder if its targeted audience was teenage girls. The nine women talk in such a benign way that it seems like the book was written specifically to appeal to the younger crowd.
Overall, "Nine and Counting" is a good enough book to read and it offers some good stories of achievement that will inspire some of its readers. It is already out of date, but some of the advice and the stories included here are timeless. Women have come a long way since the founding days of the republic and while they still have some distance to travel before they reach completely equal representation, the nine women mentioned in this book show that one woman can make a difference. With perseverance, positive attitude, and the wish to make the world a better place almost any woman has a fighting chance to win election to the prestigious club known as the United States Senate.
Eh.......2004-08-11
"Nine and Counting" is based on the truly impressive premise that the boy's club of the senate has passed. While tracing these nine senators' lives as women is a neccessary project, the writing is preachy, cliched and oh, so boring. The accounts of the individual women personally vary in their appeal and erudition, but they far surpass the writing in between. For every paragraph of a senator's writing you get two pages of introductions and platitudes of the senators, as well as cliches that sound like graduation speeches with nothing original or insightful - we get it! First there were none, now there are nine. Move on!! (An exception to the uselessness of the narration explained party finance for early candidates that is useful for seeing how women were excluded by their own parties.)
All in all, an excellent idea for a book, but poorly executed.
Great to see important women at work!!!.......2004-03-29
I feel as though this book was very well written in the aspect that it depicts women as stong intelligent people. It shows how also women can make big changes in this world depanding on their opinions. The way they think is what makes them who they are, and who they are is succesful politicians showing what their work is all about.
Nine and Counting Review.......2003-05-12
Nine and Counting is an inspirational book that all young women should read. The struggles and obstacles that each of these women had to overcome show that anything is possible. The stories included in the book are very interesting and show how different each of the female senators are. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants an insight into nine of our current senators.
Good but simplistic.......2003-01-04
This book is phenomenal for any women looking to make a difference in the world. I found it interesting that the senators were not all wealthy, Anglo Saxon individuals, but rather many came from second generation immigrants. The government appears closer to home. I really enjoyed Kay Baily Hutchinson mentioning being called a, "mom in tennis shoes." When I read that one of our senators was called a mom in tennis shoes I was amazed, it was a definite realization point. Suddenly average people were politicians. I've always heard politicians say they are just like me, but really this woman as well as many of her colleagues really are. They balance families and debate over what to make for dinner. It was quite comforting.
This book is also written quite simplistically making it a good book for all ages. At first I was a little insulted by the nature of the writing, but as it moved on it began to gain more of a Chicken Soup for the Aspiring Politicians soul. It left me with a good feeling as if I could go out and change the world with a lot of determination and a little elbow grease.
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