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Claude Ballantyne-Deadwood – Her Majesty’s Longest Serving Resident – Good Man In China
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Good Man In China. Hard Won Insights from the Dragons' Lair. What’s This Blog All About Then? Go West Young Man. What I’ve Been Up To In Life. September 16, 2016. Bull; ( Leave a comment. Claude Ballantyne-Deadwood Her Majesty’s Longest Serving Resident. Many years ago I watched a movie called ‘Good Man in Africa’ starring, amongst others Sean Connery, which was, in its own way, an insight in to the quirks of human behaviour when outside of the person’s normal environment. Claude was a ‘businessman’....
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The Right Way to Get Paid for the Job in China – Good Man In China
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Good Man In China. Hard Won Insights from the Dragons' Lair. What’s This Blog All About Then? Go West Young Man. What I’ve Been Up To In Life. January 3, 2017. Bull; ( Leave a comment. The Right Way to Get Paid for the Job in China. This is really where the rubber hits the road. But make sure that what you are asking for is essential to their business if you have no leverage then when you get hard you run the risk of losing the client. The client got the files and then disappeared. There are courts in Ch...
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A Small Bag of Fruit, Lonely Mountain Roads, and the Fragility of Life – Good Man In China
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Good Man In China. Hard Won Insights from the Dragons' Lair. What’s This Blog All About Then? Go West Young Man. What I’ve Been Up To In Life. August 28, 2016. Bull; ( 2 Comments. A Small Bag of Fruit, Lonely Mountain Roads, and the Fragility of Life. The Buddha said: The trouble is you think you have time’ and we go through life with little, if any, thought to how fragile life can be and how in an instant life changing events can happen instantaneously. This means that there is a different standard abou...
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Adapting to Local Chinese Culture – One of the 8 Keys to Success, Prosperity and Everlasting Joy in Doing Business in China – Good Man In China
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Good Man In China. Hard Won Insights from the Dragons' Lair. What’s This Blog All About Then? Go West Young Man. What I’ve Been Up To In Life. January 1, 2017. Bull; ( Leave a comment. Adapting to Local Chinese Culture – One of the 8 Keys to Success, Prosperity and Everlasting Joy in Doing Business in China. This is an excerpt from my new, as yet unfinished book ‘The Dragon Flies’ or ‘How Not to Lose your Shirt in China.’. So let’s start with ‘what is this local Chinese Culture that is spoken about?
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Good Man In China – Page 2 – Hard Won Insights from the Dragons' Lair
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Good Man In China. Hard Won Insights from the Dragons' Lair. What’s This Blog All About Then? Go West Young Man. What I’ve Been Up To In Life. August 21, 2016. Bull; ( Leave a comment. Gated Communities and Geo-Political Understanding. Pretty much everyone in Chinese cities live in gated communities. Vast sprawling complexes of multiple buildings with sparse to luxuriant vegetation depending on the cost level. The community I live […]. August 14, 2016. Bull; ( 2 Comments. August 13, 2016. August 6, 2016.
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Happy New Year – Good Man In China
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Good Man In China. Hard Won Insights from the Dragons' Lair. What’s This Blog All About Then? Go West Young Man. What I’ve Been Up To In Life. December 31, 2016. Bull; ( Leave a comment. It’s the time the relentless old sun turns again and brings with it the hope and promise of a New Year, a new chance, and wipes its duster over the chalkboard of life. We see out the old year, counting down the seconds until the tick of the timepiece opens the flood gates of joy and energy. Look to the starving child in ...
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A Bloody Good Bastard – Tribute for Jon Shearer. – Good Man In China
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Good Man In China. Hard Won Insights from the Dragons' Lair. What’s This Blog All About Then? Go West Young Man. What I’ve Been Up To In Life. November 26, 2016. Bull; ( Leave a comment. A Bloody Good Bastard Tribute for Jon Shearer. You knew where you stood with Jon. There was no reticence in using good old fashioned Anglo-Saxon words. None of the namby-pamby Norman Invasion type talk it was a pig not a pork, a snail and not an ‘escargot’. It was fuck off not ‘go away’. A vocabulary that...It was a part...
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A Dead Cat, Cigarette Ghost and Other Stories – Good Man In China
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Good Man In China. Hard Won Insights from the Dragons' Lair. What’s This Blog All About Then? Go West Young Man. What I’ve Been Up To In Life. January 1, 2017. Bull; ( Leave a comment. A Dead Cat, Cigarette Ghost and Other Stories. These people were not Mr and Mrs. Ordinary. People of all sorts of strange and exotic habits would wash up on the shores of the interior as so much flotsam and jetsam and every now and then an occasional trove. Mauro was very keen on stopping by and knocking on our first-floor...
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The Tank Commander and the ‘Pei Jiu Nu’. – Good Man In China
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Good Man In China. Hard Won Insights from the Dragons' Lair. What’s This Blog All About Then? Go West Young Man. What I’ve Been Up To In Life. January 3, 2017. Bull; ( Leave a comment. The Tank Commander and the ‘Pei Jiu Nu’. More stories of the frailty of the human condition and taken from the 23 years I’ve spent in China, and this will be incorporated in the second new book I’m trying to get out – ‘Green Leaves and the Bravest Girl I Ever Knew’. Instead of a peace-loving hippie Rama went on to become a...
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