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Chinese Culture Classes Promote Understanding
of Doing Business in China
HONOLULU — JAIMS is offering a series of
business classes in Chinese culture to help individuals interested
in doing business in China and with Chinese companies.
Entitled "Understanding Business in China,"
the four-evening class series, to be held at JAIMS in Hawaii Kai
from March 29 to April 1, explores several topics—including
guan-xi dynamics, investing in China, and the differences
between China and the United States—and introduces basic conversational
Chinese and social protocol.
"Many people in the Honolulu business community
acknowledge that there is a lack of resources to prepare them for
their trips to China," said Rosa Chiang, business Mandarin
program specialist at JAIMS. "These sessions will help to guide
them on how to do business with the Chinese."
The classes are targeted for all individuals
interested in Chinese business, whether they work with companies
in China or deal with the Chinese through their jobs.
"In Hawaii, we have been fortunate to come
to know ‘the Japanese way,’" Chiang said. "It’s
now time we learned ‘the Chinese way.’"
Four instructors whose backgrounds include academics
as well as entrepreneurship will teach the classes. Yadong Luo,
associate professor at the College of Business Administration at
the University of Hawaii at Manoa, served as a provincial official
in charge of international business in China before coming to the
U.S. and has written books on guan-xi and international investment
strategies in China. Kate Xiao Zhou, assistant professor of political
science at UH Manoa, has focused her research on areas such as Chinese
economic development and Asian entrepreneurship and has written
the book How the Farmers Changed China: Power of the People.
Chao Ying Bossert is president and CEO of China-Hawaii Investment
Corporation, which she founded in 1994. Donny Huang is managing
director of Royal Road International, a Honolulu-based consulting
and training firm that specializes in China, and worked in Beijing
helping foreign companies set up businesses, one of which was the
first Dunkin’ Donuts in China.
Classes will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on
March 29 and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. March 30 to April 1. Because
of limited seating, the deadline to register for the Chinese classes
is March 25. Cost is $180 for the entire series, or $60 for each
class.
JAIMS, a pioneer in intercultural management
education, is a private, nonprofit postgraduate institute. Its mission
is to contribute to the human and economic development of the Asia-Pacific
region by educating and training managers to be effective leaders
in an increasingly interdependent economy. JAIMS prepares global
managers through programs in intercultural management, business
language and customized seminars in information technology and cross-cultural
communications. Established in 1972 by Fujitsu Ltd., JAIMS has educated
and trained more than 17,500 academic program and seminar participants
mainly from North American and Asian countries. JAIMS is located
in Hawaii Kai and has a support office in Tokyo.
For more information on the Chinese classes,
please contact Rosa Chiang at JAIMS at rchiang@jaims.org
or (808) 396-7163.
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