Society

India’s Financial Sector Looking Towards The 2014 Elections

India’s financial code for the fiscal year 2013-2014 (from April to March) is vague and generic, not enough substance…

How Dehumanization Can Kill A Company

A self-help guide to entrepreneurial cluelessness… Everyone who has worked closely with other businesses for long enough has their…

Ou Yang And Simone Wei – The Hidden Seduction – Part VI-1

Ou Yang was not a person who would just be with anyone. She had no interest in macho men…

The Boring Stage – The Hidden Seduction – Part V-3

Jonas might have gone a bit farther than his convention allowed, or his religion expected of him, by moving…

The Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Communism Part 3 of 4

The entire titanic operation is filled with contradictions, as one might have rightly expected. Honesty is confronted on two…

Working As An Expat in a Chinese Chemical Company

Dr. Kai Pflug, Management Consulting – Chemicals, Shanghai, and Dr. Stephen Pask, SteDaPa Consulting, Düsseldorf Working in China as a Western…

China Silent Over Pope’s Resignation

News of Pope Ratzinger stepping down barely registered in the Chinese media, which was dominated by the celebrations of…

The Contradictions Of A Metropolis Reflected In Art

Recording Mumbai’s contradictions to define its identity: that was the theme of the fourth edition of (en)counters, a contemporary…

The Hidden Seduction – Part V-2 – The Shape of Light

For a Christian, divorce was just not something that was supposed to happen, in Ou Yang’s mind, because God…

The Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Communism, Part 2 of 4

Knowledge is fundamental for moral rectitude. That is one of the principal rules of Confucius, China’s most important and…