Jessica Sun and Ed Sander of ChinaTalk share their advice and tips on bargaining in China. They also […]
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Ed tells you about China’s geography and how it can make for incredibly diverse travels in the country.
Video: Travel & China’s Geography
ChinaTalk’s Jessica Sun shares some important advice about applying for a China visa.
Video: Applying for a China Visa
Ever since we started piloting study tours in 2018 we’ve been toying with the idea of having a […]
ChinaTalk spin-off: ChinaTechTrip
In cooperation with Summa & Bedrijf, we have successfully rounded off the first series of a Chinese Language […]
Critical acclaim for Chinese Language & Culture course at Summa & Bedrijf
China is an enormous country with different climates in different regions. ChinaTalk’s Jessica Sun explains how you should […]
Video: When should I plan my trip to China?
ChinaTalk is restarting its study tours to China … After developing and guiding a series of study tours […]
We’re back! Who wants to go to China?
China has opened up and business travelers and tourists are slowly returning to the country. If you plan […]
Video: Basic Chinese Language and Survival Tips
Mid-February, ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander was interviewed by Bloomberg about Temu, the new Chinese webshop launched in the US […]
Video Series: Temu Interview
ChinaTalk’s Jessica Sun (孙慧) discusses talking about politics and other sensitive topics with friends and business partners in China. Many […]
Video series: Discussing politics in China
Last month we announced that ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander had joined the Tech Buzz China team as a tech […]
Tech Buzz China is back!
ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander has joined the Tech Buzz China (TBC) team as tech analyst and main writer. Ed: […]
ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander joins Tech Buzz China
In January 2023, ChinaTalk’s Jessica Sun was a guest on Mei Yang’s Our Cultures and Our World podcast. […]
Jessica Sun in the Our Cultures & Our World Podcast
ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander is one of the keynote speakers at the 2023 edition of the Benelux Online Print […]
ChinaTalk @ Benelux Online Print Event #BOPE23
Another year is coming to an end. Considering the Covid situation in China, we knew from the start […]
This was ChinaTalk in 2022!
In this video, ChinaTalk’s Jessica Sun explains how China geographical size leads to enormous differences in weather, food, […]
Video: Understanding China’s Diversity
A cultural mistake is easily made when you pick the wrong number, colour or gift in China or […]
Video: Numbers, colours and homephones in Chinese culture
Want to follow a free Chinese Language and Culture training? It is possible with your STAP budget! For […]
Learn Chinese Language & Culture with your STAP budget!
In this video, ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander explains how China transformed from a mostly agricultural society to an economic […]
Video: China’s Economic Transformation Explained
The last 8 years we have been publishing loads of content on ChinaTalk.nl. Almost every week we share […]
New website launched: edsander.com
China is one of our most important trading partners. We export a lot to the country, but have […]
Summa Course Chinese Language & Culture
In this crash course on Chinese internet ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander shares 9 things that you need to know […]
Video: Nine need-to-know things about China’s internet
ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander had the pleasure and honour to be part of the excellent Robeco Outlook 2022 event […]
Video: China’s tech rectification & common prosperity
2020 was a difficult year for us. We had to cancel all the planned study tours for our […]
This was ChinaTalk’s 2021
We are proud to announce that from this school year ChinaTalk’s Jessica Sun will provide lessons in Chinese […]
ChinaTalk provides lessons for Summa International Business
As you might have noticed on the ChinaTalk website we have made some recent changes here at ChinaTalk. […]
ChinaTalk 2.0 – We have made some changes
This video is part of a online lecture ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander gave for students of Saxion University of […]
Video: Introduction to China’s Live-Streaming e-Commerce
Making a few jokes about Chinese icons might seem like just some harmless fun. But your fellow students […]
Video: Cross-cultural respect for fellow students
This video is part of an online lecture ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander gave for students of Saxion’s minor Doing […]
Video: Bad Reputations of Chinese Internet Companies
This video is part of an online lecture ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander gave for students of Saxion’s minor Doing Business […]
Video: Faking it on the Chinternet
In October 2020 ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander shared a selection of innovative Chinese business models during an online conference. […]
Video: New retail – the Luckin Coffee case
This video is part of an online lecture ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander gave for students of Saxion’s minor Doing […]
Video: Broken China – Ethics and Morality in the Middle Kingdom
The second semester of the 2020/2021 finds Saxion University of Applied Sciences organising their minor Doing Business with […]
Fifth edition of Saxion minor ‘Doing Business with China’
In a new series of short videos ChinaTalk’s Jessica Sun, a teacher in Chinese Language and Culture, discusses […]
Video Series: Learning Chinese – Common Mistakes
On the 29th of July, Christian Kromme, ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander and Simone van Neerven engaged in a Humathon […]
Video: Humathon – Technology & economy: insights from the crisis
On 24 July, 2020. ChinaTalk’s Jessica Sun was invited to share her studying experience in The Netherlands with […]
Video: Studying in The Nederlands (for Nuffic Neso China)
On the 9th of June 2020 ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander was invited to share six learnings from the way […]
Video: Business learnings from China’s COVID-19 Crisis
A recording of a lecture at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands on October 4th […]
Video: Internet censorship in China
Thanks to all attendees for joining the second session of our nexxworks Webinar Series with Ed Sander. We […]
Watch: Tech in times of Corona (Nexxworks Webinar Series)
In 2010 I decided I needed a new challenge and something that was a bit more meaningful. I […]
The five year itch – going fulltime
Recently both Alipay and WeChat Pay, the two leading mobile payment platforms, announced that they are enabling mobile […]
Abacus interview: thoughts on mobile payments for foreigners
On the 24th of September in Shanghai, ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander appeared as a guest speaker at a Speakers […]
Successful St. James’s Place event on Social Credit
In 2014 the Chinese government announced the implementation of a social credit system in 2020. In recent years […]
St. James’s Place Speaker Series: China’s Social Credit System Explained
In April 2019 Sogeti and ChinaTalk collaborated on a China study tour for a group of Sogeti’s customers. […]
Sogeti China Study Tour highly acclaimed
In the past months I have had the opportunity to tell students of several universities and universities of […]
China’s Social Credit System – Revisited and Extended
On March 21st in Shanghai, ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander will try to separate fact and fiction regarding China’s Social […]
Talking China – Behind China’s Social Credit System
From March 30th to April 30th 2019 Sogeti, a division of Capgemini, and ChinaTalk are offering Sogeti’s customer […]
Sogeti and ChinaTalk cooperate on study tour to China
In 2017 ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander had the pleasure of lecturing about digital innovation on a most amazing stage […]
Watch: A Day in a Life with WeChat (Sogeti, Barcelona 2018)
As part of last months ChinaTechTrips we visited many different New Retail initiatives in China. Among these were […]
Watch: New Retail – JD X Unmanned Store
In Ep. 26 of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma discuss Koubei, rounding up the second […]
Listen: ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander appeared on TechBuzz China podcast
On the 4th of October 2018 ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander gave a lecture about China’s social credit system at […]