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Teaching China Business Courses Here At Home

Friday, January 16, 2015 7:44

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This is a guest post by Jonathan Poston.

Back in July of 2013, I wrote this post for China Law Blog, asking for reader feedback on a Chinese business class I was developing.

Over the next months after my post was published, I used China Law Blog reader feedback as an aid in building out and further developing my proposed course agenda, and submitted the final course proposal to Galen, a small, private university in Belize. The course was welcomed, and soon after offered online to students. At present it has been taught for several groups of business students at Galen, the last time over the Fall 2014 semester.

Each time it has been offered, the course has evolved, based on feedback from students, most of whom loved the class. Much of the course was also augmented to meet needs specific to the Caribbean. If you’ve been keeping up with the huge Chinese-backed Nicaragua Canal proposal that is just breaking ground, then you know the impact China is making on the region.

As part of the course, students ended up networking with Chinese communities in Belize to better understand how they could play a part in the significant Sino-business affairs occurring in their own country, which prior to the class was a complete mystery to the majority of students. Though many students were already aware of the many Chinese-owned grocery and other small stores in their country, who could have guessed that the Chinese-made Great Wall Wingle, a compact pickup truck, is becoming popular in Belize. Students also learned from custom agents and bankers how Chinese businesses moved goods and money to expand current operations. And, this semester, students all worked with a China company to conduct new market research for a soon-to-launch international Chinese journal.

Slowly, but surely Chinese companies are making quite an impact in the small country that was once a British Crown Colony.

As for Americans, the Chinese business presence may not be as visible as it is in Belize, but it’s coming. And, in many ways, China is already in the USA, even it’s not so obvious. The business relationship the USA has with China is evident every time Americans go out shopping and nearly everything on the shelves is “Made in China.” One of my Chinese students (from my days teaching in China) joked once that when she was attending her last two years of university in the USA, she was hard pressed to send U.S. made souvenirs back to her friends and family in China. Everything she could find ended up having been made in China.Though there are efforts underway to teach American youth Mandarin, understanding China’s business culture is quite different from understanding its language, although there are obvious overlaps in the two. But, how many schools are teaching Chinese business culture?

And, if Chinese business culture were to become a mainstream subject, what should be included in such a curriculum? How should it be taught?These are the questions surrounding my goal of introducing a newly developed Chinese business course into high schools and colleges in the U.S. Your feedback is once again welcomed and appreciated.

We will be discussing the practical aspects of Chinese law and how it impacts business there. We will be telling you what works and what does not and what you as a businessperson can do to use the law to your advantage. Our aim is to assist businesses already in China or planning to go into China, not to break new ground in legal theory or policy.

Source: http://www.chinalawblog.com/2015/01/teaching-china-business-courses-here-at-home.html

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