Hello World

My 20+ years of wrinkles on my China hand make me a veteran of all sides of the Chinese-Western cultural divide. Not an expert, not someone who understands the Chinese--anyone who says he/she understands the Chinese ... doesn't. This includes Chinese.

I have learned a few things along the way though, and make a fair living helping Westerners and Chinese work/live together, and helping Chinese succeed in modern, performance-oriented offices. The blog will offer glimpses of what the Chinese-Western divide looks through my glasses, some posts for Chinese, some for Westerners and some for both. Posts might be about business, about culture, about what being a 1-man firm in small-town Canada but working Chinese time zones is like.

Two qualities I will strive for are humor and making readers think in new ways, my hope being to dispense over time a pair of cross culture glasses, letting readers 'see' how others do. Oh, and I suppose it would be nice if the posts were well-written and interesting too. No promises, other than to do my best.

Finally, this is my first post to my first blog. To paraphrase CSY at Woodstock, "I am scared shitless." And yes, I am that old.

Cheers, Greg