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Nineteenth Century China
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Korea, Japan, and China in the Sixteenth Century
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Kai-Fu Lee Lecture: Google in China
Kai-Fu Lee, President of Google Greater China and Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science alum, gave the School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture. In his lecture “Google China — Can a Multinational Internet Company Succeed in China?”, he discusses Google’s success in China at a time when virtually every multinational Internet company was failing or […]
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Population in Modern China
Families lived together in traditional China and sons remained on the land; division of family land led to tiny plots and rural poverty. Because labor was so cheap, the country did not urbanize or mechanize. The Communist government started out with a pro-natal stance, but after experiencing the famine of the Great Leap Forward, moved […]
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Population in Traditional China
China’s early demographic history is similar to that of Europe; population grows only slowly due to war, disease and Malthusian resource limitation. Later, introduction of American foods allowed cultivated land to expand, but population expanded even more rapidly, leading to an extremely dense, but poor population. During this time, female infanticide was frequent, but almost […]
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Government and Entrepreneurship: The Evolution of Entrepreneurship in China
Tarun Khanna, Professor at Harvard Business School, argues that the old equation that government = inefficient does not hold unilaterally but depends on the context. To illustrate, Khanna describes the evolution of the Communist Party of China and its efforts to co-opt entrepreneurs so that now the government and entrepreneurship is very closely integrated. In […]
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Comparing Development in India and China
Tarun Khanna, Professor at Harvard Business School, summarizes insights from one of his books by comparing private and public rights in India and China. Khanna argues that in India, private rights are favored over the public interest whereas in China the opposite is true. These tradeoffs affect the nature of doing business in each country […]
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Gaming in China
Earl discusses the importance of understanding and developing games for local markets. EA started a studio in Shanghai to learn about China’s gaming population. He also talks about protecting EA’s IP via an online distribution mechanism.
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China: Future of Global Environment
Seligmann believes that China is the future of global environment, a country leading the world on how to preserve its natural ecosystems. He emphasizes that once the relationship between wealth, health and environment is realized by society, people will begin to understand that long-term survival is going to depend upon the availability of resources.
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Development and Entrepreneurship in China and India
https://academicearth.org/courses/development-and-entrepreneurship-in-china-and-india/