Rationale for and overview of the book -- Trouble in the middle: the ethics of cross-cultural business relations -- Central control and its shadow: a brief history of Chinese culture and institutions -- Confused motives and deep ambivalences: a brief history of American-Chinese cultural relations in China -- The turtle and the hare: an essay on political and economic reform in China -- Business-government corruption in China: Americans suffer only the half of it -- Ones, twos, and threes: the roots of cultural conflicts in American-Chinese business relations -- Culture, corruption, and business in China: the conflicting worlds of American and Chinese executives -- Clear as mud: the ethics of intellectual property in China -- Power, property, and culture: American-Chinese conflicts over intellectual property in China -- Conclusion: notes on the cultural middle -- Epilogue: three years later - 2010.
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