Why follow this blog?  

The blog will offer an idiosyncratic, but hopefully also interesting and stimulating mix of links and posts to articles discussing aspects of Chinese culture, business & economics, and society as well as articles reflecting on international relations with China. In general, I will focus on more recent materials, but will occasionally include older backgrounders or posts which are still important in helping us to understand developments. While the selection of articles is naturally driven by my own interests, I hope that they will resonate with others who share a similar fascination with this huge and complex country. 

Who is the blog author? 

A lecturer in International Business Management and professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) School of Business and a external member of the FHNW China Centre. 

Research interests and publications focus on trust & culture, challenges of inter-organisational collaboration, challenges of cross-border collaboration. 

Today, I focus on building partnerships between the university and key stakeholders from public administration, industry and the wider society in the trinational Basel region, Switzerland and in Asia. 

Current projects include working to set up an innovation centre in Shenzhen, investigating how Swiss tourist actors and organisation can best reach and attract independent Chinese tourists (FITs), developing virtual exchange programmes to bring Swiss and Chinese students together during the current pandemic and of course lecturing, giving talks and participating in China groups. 

I have been involved with China for many years including formerly as Head of the FHNW Insight China programme, Head FHNW China Centre Research and Consulting and Head Swiss SME Research Centre China. In addition to my work in the FHNW, I have been a visiting lecturer at Lanzhou University, Shenzhen Technology University, Qingdao Technology University, the Hogeschool Utrecht, the Banking University Ho Chi Minh City and the Berner Fachhochschule and have consulted a variety of companies and organisations