Asian Mind Game
Published on 30. January 1991
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-89256-352-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first book to reveal secret of the Asia psyche that influence behavior in business, diplomacy, lifestyles, and basttle. Americans seldom realize that Asians regard the marketplace as a battlefield, but now successful East-West trade consultant Chu tells how Westerners can defend their interests by playing the same game.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Indianapolis, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
547 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89256-352-4 (9780892563524)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Chin-Ning Chu is president of Asian Marketing Consultants, Inc. She counsels Western companies doing or wishing to do business in Asia. Born in Teinjin, near Beijing, she was raised in Taiwan after the fall of mainland China to the Communists. She has studied the teachings of sages in India, China, and Europe and believes her study of philosophy and psychology provides her with a powerful tool with which to examine the complexities of philosophical, sociological, and historical influences on the shaping of the modern Asian mind. Ms. Chu lives in Beaverton, Oregon.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
Part One
The Mind Game
1 Preparing for the Game
2 The Marketplace is a Battlefield
3 The Sun Tzu Bing-Fa
4 The 36 Strategies
5 Thick Face, Black Heart
Part Two
The Ant People
6 Japan Says no for 300 Years
7 Virtue and Hypocrisy
8 The Corporate Samurai
9 Morita and Ishihara
Part Three
The Matriarch
10 The Hurdles
11 China Views the West
12 Historical and Cultural Connections Among the Asian Peoples
13 The Inner Chinese
14 Taiwan's Prosperity Explosion
Part Four
The Survivors
15 Great Expectations
Part Five
Endgame
16 Winning Moves
17 Paper Tiger or Sleeping Lion?
Index