Megan Shank is an editor, writer and translator living in Shanghai, China.
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A soccer team must unify thought and action to maximize its ability to compete. British business consultant and public speaker Theo Theobald and former president of the British Academy of Management Cary Cooper believe enterprise management is no different. Their book, “The Beautiful Game,” vividly illustrates how winning soccer strategies may be [...]
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Drug advertisements and the latest products they tout are omnipresent, but are these new drugs better than those previously on the market, and are they really making us healthier? Harvard University senior lecturer Marcia Angell’s “The Truth About the Drug Companies,” reveals the shocking inside story of America’s pharmaceutical companies. During the [...]
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The first few weeks at a new job can be nerve-racking—especially if it’s your first job. Here are some office etiquette tips from Anita Landau, a consultant of Hudson Recruitment in Shanghai:
*Be punctual. Being on time shows that you respect your company and your job. If you are late, call your superior [...]
TRANSLATED FOR FUN FROM THE SHANGHAI CONSONANCY HOSPITAL WEBSITE
Last night, Shanghai Consonancy Hospital Gynecology Director Li Jun Xia gave Xiao Li, a young woman from Sichuan, a fine new hymen. Despite the fact that the hymen repair procedure is a minor surgery, it is a very precise and delicate one. But it is also one [...]
The procedure and products are nothing new, but the virgins they make of it are. Hymen repair surgery and fake hymen kits have been sewed into the fold, as it were, of contemporary China.
For all the pretense of being a sexually conservative society, ads in major Chinese cities don’t flinch from openly discussing traditionally private [...]