While most American business people are more familiar with Beijing and Shanghai, the mere size of those cities baffles the comparison to North American cities. Qingdao is a good example of how long term contact with another culture had helped to make foreign trade possible and smoother. In the early 20th century, Qingdao’s students and residents were the first to protest for a more modern China. They envisioned a China with telephones, telegrams, daily and evening newspapers, and electricity, not unlike other Western cities of its contemporary. That 1930s China had cities like the American cities as Philadelphia and Chicago is a little known fact. What else do you need to learn about China when doing business with China? Contact Yvonne to learn what you need to know.
The City of Qingdao has 19th century German buildings along with modern buildings.
