Asian Business

1. “To get rich and glorious” quote was said by Deng Xiao Ping, member of the communist party in China. They got richer, faster than any people ever had. The economy is now 10 times larger than it was then; it grew 300% just in the last 10 years. Incomes rose every year. People in China are becoming millionaires there than anywhere else on earth (Time Asia.)

2. Techno-nationalism is expressive and strict categories for understanding the impact of technology on society and vice versa. They reflect the fundamental assumptions made by analysts of the place of technology in the world, and denote ideologies, rather than technological policies or realities.

3. Meiji Charter Oath is statement of purposes for the government centralization. The Charter Oath was very important public document issued in April 1868, just months after the Meiji restoration brought an end to the Tokugawa shogun ate and installed a new Japanese government. It was issued in the name of the Emperor Meiji, the text was written by a group of the young samurai, mainly from domains in southwestern Japan, who had led the overthrow of the Tokugawa and the “restoration” of imperial rule (Hasegawa and Noronha). The Charter Oath appeared at a time of considerable uncertainty in Japanese society, as people throughout the country were unsure of the intentions and priorities of the new government.

4. Self Strengtheners concern was to protect China's independence, and led them to reject foreign loans and to rely on domestic resources only. This forced them to rely on a policy of 'slow' modernization.

5. The Long March was during 1934-1936. It was the survival of the communist party. The Long March was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist...

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...ly-owned business that has been operating for three generations. Their focuses on driving costs out of the value chain in the production of consumer goods especially on clothing. They are one of the largest Asian supply chain networks. They are coordinate supply chains and managerial entrepreneurialism. They build economics of scale networks, using their sources across borders, innovate different markets and create their “global mindset.” Their business focuses on product design and development, through raw materials and factory sourcing, production planning and management, quality assurance and export documentation, to shipping control (Li and Fung). Their strengths are fast and reliable, competitive to match competitors pricing with other companies; they process things in few transactions to get things done faster by shipping to different countries to produce.