Trouble in the middle: American-Chinese business relations, culture, conflict, and ethics

yRationale 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.