Questions About Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game

by Paul Midler (Goodreads Author)

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any Chinese readers with a take on this book?

Thing Two In the afterword section of the version I read, the author writes the following:

"It took my publisher many months to get customs to approve importatio…moreIn the afterword section of the version I read, the author writes the following:

"It took my publisher many months to get customs to approve importation of the English version of this book, and we have yet to find a publisher on the mainland who is willing to acquire foreign rights to have this book translated for the local market."

He goes on to say: "I personally got involved with the effort to find a publisher in China, speaking with one publishing house that was introduced to me by a writer friend. There was significant initial interest in the book based on the reviews, but then the publisher got cold feet. I was told point-blank that a book such as mine would be too much of a publishing risk, because of the possibility that it might attract the wrong sort of attention."

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