Heads Up: The Ultimate China Bookshelf at Leeds Uni – 30/3/23

Heads Up – Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:00 – 19:00 BST – Leeds University

Doing business in China right now can feel like an almost impossible task. Through Paul French and his Ultimate China Bookshelf, we can gain a better reading of the past and take away lessons that increase the chances of success in the future.

This will be a hybrid event. Register here to attend the talk in-person at the University of Leeds.

Working with The China Project former Shanghai businessman, historian and writer Paul French is building the Ultimate China Bookshelf – bookmarking titles that have stood the test of time and highlighting the wisdom in their pages.

The idea, apart from recovering some great books on China, is to help us all avoid over emphasis on the immediate specifics of the commercial landscape and think about:
how we can benefit from a collective memory of past experiences of foreign business in China, how we can indulge usefully in nostalgia,
how various administrations have formed the environment for foreign business,
how China’s current official narrative concurs and/or diverges from ours as foreign businesspeople.

Join us for a talk that will deliver practical recommendations as well as commentary on broader questions related to how we think about China. Details of how to attend/sign in here