Beijing vs. Shanghai is a very interesting topic to me.  I chose a life here in Beijing, but I often think about switching to China's other big city.  I wonder if Shanghai life would be more suitable to my personality.  I wonder of Shanghaihua might be more understandable than Beijinghua. Is the expat scene different?  Etc.,etc., etc. I'll bet a show on this subject would be really great.

Thanks for everything Jenny.  Your enthusiasm, ambition and energy have made Chinesepod great for me since I first joined.  Good luck with this show.

Thank you so much for your kind words and great show idea. A friend of mine has a brilliant observation about Shanghai and Bejing, 'Shanghai makes Chinese foreigners, Beijing makes foreigners Chinese'.  I think many will nod with a smile.

Congratulations on your new show. Here's wishing you a long, successful run.

Thanks for your insight! Great interview!

Do you speak Chinese? If so, what was your experience learning it for all these years?

Can you give some advice when a business is faced with a sketchy deal? You said not to focus on the negative, or more so not to dwell on the negative. However pollution and corruption are a reality and have been going unchecked for years.

Thanks,

@Jenny

Will there be any interviews in Chinese? Or is the target audience only English speakers?...

Thanks for the great interview with John Chan.  (And thank you too, John.)

I felt John sort of avoided dealing with the question, "Where do you draw the line?"  I wish he would have confronted ethics problems here, but I understand that maybe that is a bit much for a short interview. 

Anyway, it got me thinking about my (Chinese) wife's work.  She works for a foreign company.  She says that many of the workers say that the foreign bosses were pretty upright right after arriving in China, but over time they slowly got corrupted.  Just from a personal conduct standpoint, one married a bar girl (aka prostitute), and another has a mistress.  This is quite public knowledge, except for the wife and family in his homeland I presume.  Who knows if they are corrupted financially wise, but given how Chinese mid-level managers there seem to think bribes are a part of their salary, I guess those foreigners might be padding their pockets as well. 

Because of the riciculous behavior of these people, my wife says many of the workers openly say, "I hate foreigners."  To be honest, it pisses me off too.  I hate being lumped in with these immoral bastards. 

So I'm like xuchen, I would like to hear John's views on ethics.  Even if John doesn't stop in to comment, I would be interested in other people's experiences.

PS: Street smarts would be 街头智慧, right?

Thank you very much for the idea of this show. I have just started a Guided subscription and, besides the assigned lessons every week, I plan to listen to this show for sure! It is very, very interesting.

Greetings from Spain!