You are seeing China everyday now...

As I started my 3rd term at CLU, for almost every class, my professors talked about China or told stories about China, which kept my hands busy with writing down those opinions or comments. Most of the stories are somehow different than what I've heard when I was in Shanghai and I guess that's just because of standing at different positions or holding varied perspectives.



So it happened like, my Business Law professor has adopt a daughter years ago in Beijing and guess what, that daughter is one of the most famous actress in China who has been in prison for one year and now came out to the public vision again. This daughter told her father she was in prison actually because she told bad things about the president of China on the live TV instead of being sentenced for avoiding paying taxes on purpose. Well... another inside source of information to me... My project management professor told us one of the most famous disaster in project management history is HSBC case (HongKang-Shanghai Bank of China) and those project managers made huge obvious mistakes because of that time Chinese government policies and office policies as well. I've known about HSBC very little but since it runs so well now in Shanghai that I can not wait to know more detail about the case! My economic professor told she and her husband have lived in Taiwan for 10 years and they'd love to go back again. She even discussed a little bit about the current sensitive relationship between Taiwan and the mainland with the whole class which brought me in not that bright mood... I happened to argue with a student from Korea who was telling the whole class that most of Chinese products are in low quality.



I figured, the longer I stay here, the more I am wondering since when China draws that much attention in a western country?! When I m worrying about the current Chinese economy and its doubt real estate market, I'm also thinking if this kind of attention would bring good or bad to China and if it would further affect Chinese people who live in US?


I met lots of Americans in Shanghai when I was working, and I am meeting lots of Americans here. I shall say people say things differently when given different environments or situations. I think it worthwhile to find out the true feeling even it is not that amusing or comforting.