Chinese business resources

This week marks New Zealand Chinese language week in which Mandarin, Cantonese and other Chinese dialects are celebrated!

Our colleague Xinxin has put together a wonderful blog outlining some of the resources within the Wellington City Libraries collections and events being held in the library during this time.

Specifically for the business community there are a number of journals and newspapers available through different platforms and in Chinese language formats or English.  If you do business in a Chinese speaking part of Asia you may find these resources helpful.

Press Reader


This list provides entry to some of the many magazines and newspapers that cover China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Taiwan.

China
Beijing Review
(English)
Capitalweek
(Simplified Chinese)
China Business News
(Simplified Chinese)
China Economist (English)
China Newsweek (Simplified Chinese)
China Today (English)
The Global Times
(English)
Harvard Business Review (Simplified Chinese)
Jiefang Daily (Simplified Chinese)
Manager (Simplified Chinese)
National Business Daily (Simplified Chinese)
Shanghai Daily (English)
United Times (Simplified Chinese)

Hong Kong
China Daily English
(English)
Economic Digest (Traditional Chinese)
Hong Kong Economic Journal (Traditional Chinese)
Oriental Daily News (HK) (Traditional Chinese)
South China Morning Post  (English)

Macau
Macau Daily Times (English)

Singapore
The Business Times (English)
The Edge (English)
Lianhe Zaobao (Simplified Chinese)
Shin Min Daily News (Simplified Chinese)
Straits Times (English)
Vuapo (English)

Taiwan
Business Weekly
(Traditional Chinese)
China Times
(Traditional Chinese)
Commercial Times (Traditional Chinese)
Economic Daily News(Traditional Chinese)
The Merit Times
(Traditional Chinese)
Taipei Times (English)
United Daily News (Traditional Chinese)

DragonSource

 


DragonSource has over 3000 Chinese magazines online that include many popular magazine titles, such as Reader’s Digest, Elle Chinese, Vogue Chinese, photography, Xinmin Weekly and much more.
Updated monthly, read online for free.

Book collection

Encountering China : New Zealanders and the People’s Republic
“This collection of 50 texts, written by diplomats and poets, politicians and academics, students and businesspeople, reflects on personal experiences of China over the last half century”–Back cover.” (Catalogue)
Also available in EBook Libby

 

Party of one : the rise of Xi Jinping and China’s superpower future / Wong, Chun Han
Party of One shatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world’s most secretive political organizations and its leader. Many observers misread Xi during his early years in power, projecting their own hopes that he would steer China toward more political openness, rule of law, and pro-market economics. Having masked his beliefs while climbing the party hierarchy, Xi has centralized decision-making powers, encouraged a cult of personality around himself, and moved toward indefinite rule by scrapping presidential term limits-stirring fears of a return to a Mao-style dictatorship. Today, the party of Xi favors political zeal over technical expertise, trumpets its faith in Marxism, and proclaims its reach into every corner of Chinese society with Xi portraits and hammer-and-sickle logos. Under Xi, China has challenged Western preeminence in global affairs and cast its authoritarian system as a model of governance worthy of international emulation. As a China reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Chun Han Wong has chronicled Xi Jinping’s hard-line strategy for crushing dissent against his strongman rule, his political repression in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, and his increasingly coercive efforts to reel in the island democracy of Taiwan, as well as the domestic and diplomatic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. When the Chinese government refused to renew Wong’s press credentials and forced him to leave mainland China in 2019, he moved to Hong Kong to continue covering Chinese politics and its autocratic turn under Xi. Now, Wong has drawn on his years of firsthand reporting across China-including conversations with party insiders, insights from scholars and diplomats, and analyses of official speeches and documents-to create a lucid and historically rooted account of China’s leader and how he inspires fear and fervor in his party, his nation, and beyond”– Dust jacket.” (Catalogue)

City on the edge : Hong Kong under Chinese rule / Hung, Ho-fung
“For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong Kong’s development from precolonial times to the present, with particular focus on the post 1997 handover period. Through careful analysis of vast economic data, a myriad of political events, and intricate networks of actors and ideas, Hung offers readers insight into the fraught economic, political, and social forces that led to the 2019 uprising, while situating the protests in the context of global finance and the geopolitics of the US-China rivalry. A provocative contribution to the discussion on Hong Kong’s position in today’s world, City on the Edge demonstrates that the resistance and repression of 2019-2020 does not spell the end of Hong Kong but the beginning of a long conflict with global repercussions”– Provided by publisher.” (Catalogue)

Alibaba’s world : how a remarkable Chinese company is changing the face of global business / Erisman, Porter
“What is as powerful as Google, more popular than Facebook, and more economically disruptive than Amazon and eBay combined? Alibaba operates the world’s biggest online shopping mall, with 600 million registered users (Amazon has roughly 200 million). It executes about 80% of China’s e-commerce transactions and generates nearly 70% of all packages in China, making up close to 2% of China’s GDP. And its marketplaces include another 60 million small and medium-size business users spread over 200 countries. This Chinese company is poised to make its global debut with an IPO that could be the largest in history. But what is Alibaba? How does it work? And why should we be paying attention? Porter Erisman shows how Jack Ma, a charismatic Chinese schoolteacher, rose from obscurity to revolutionize commerce in China, and now the world. He shares stories of weathering the dotcom crash, facing down eBay and Google, negotiating with the Web-phobic Chinese government, and enduring the misguided advice of foreign experts, all to build the behemoth that’s poised to sweep the ecommerce world today. And he analyzes Alibaba’s role as a harbinger of the new global business landscape–with its focus on the East rather than the West, emerging markets over developed ones, and the nimble entrepreneur over the industry titan. As we face this near future, the story of Alibaba–and its inevitable descendants–is both essential and instructive”– Provided by publisher.” (Catalogue)

The Shenzhen experiment : the story of China’s instant city / Du, Juan
“A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is attributed to its status as a Special Economic Zone, but no other SEZs compare. Juan Du looks to the past to understand why. It turns out that Shenzhen is no prefab “instant city,” but a place influenced by deep local history.– Provided by publisher.” (Catalogue)

 

If you need more information please contact the Prosearch team at the library.  We can help you find information across a range of perspectives and resources.  All enquiries are treated in confidence.