13 Year China Veteran
International Experience.
13 Year China Veteran
Blueberry Bamboo consultant Chris Verrill spent 13 years in the belly of the beast, learning how to do business in China. And more importantly, how not to do business in China.
What’s the one word of advice for corporations considering doing business in China? Don’t.
Despite this warning, if you’re still set on starting a business in China, Blueberry Bamboo consultants can alert you to the obstacles, probably save you some money, and definitely save you some heartache.
Verrill spent four years producing and hosting programs on state-run media, China Radio International and Beijing Radio, broadcasting to a market of 1.3 billion people and getting an insider’s view on China’s censorship and corruption.
Media Channels:
He was the founding producer and co-host of China Drive on China Radio International’s Easy FM. Nationally broadcast from 5 pm to 7 pm, Monday to Friday, this feature magazine program (think All Things Considered without the quality) continues to entertain English-speaking audiences in Beijing, Shanghai, and throughout China. He also produced and hosted CRI’s afternoon music program Easy Cafe and Beijing Radio’s Going for Gold and My Life in Beijing. His time spent with the official Chinese radio network gives Verrill insight and expertise in how official Chinese media works that few non-Chinese can claim.
Programs & Shows:
Verrill also established Beijing Playhouse, the largest locally produced English theatre in China, and the Beijing Academy of Performing Arts, China’s first standalone theatre education program.
Theatre & Education:
These businesses are in the media, the most sensitive industry in the most censored and corrupt major country in the world. And he navigated the corrupt Chinese political business system. Well, as much as is possible. Which, in many respects, it is not.
Why Did September 11 Happen?
Why did September 11 happen? What does the world think about America since then? While war raged in Iraq, Chris Verrill embarked on a travel adventure, from Afghanistan to Athens, Kuwait to Kathmandu, to answer those questions and more.
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Is For Good Men To Do Nothing.
Traveling to five continents and 33 countries, Verrill’s international travel biography Is For Good Men To Do Nothing celebrates the spirit one Rotary Club while chronicling a quixotic effort to build vocational education programs in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, and managing international development issues in numerous countries around the world. The book provides 427 pages of “insightful and witty” non-fiction. “Brilliant,” said a critic. “This book is a must-read.”
It’s international politics with a human touch—and a human mission. Reminding us that charity begins at home. But it doesn’t end there.