China's Global Reach: Markets, Multinationals, and Globalization

Book by Gu, George Zhibin

George Zhibin Gu is a journalist/consultant based in Guangdong, China. A native of Xian, he obtained education at Nanjing University in China and Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan in the United States. He holds two MS degrees and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

For the past two decades, he has been an investment banker and business consultant with a focus on China. His work focuses on helping international businesses to invest in China and the Chinese companies to expand overseas. He has worked for Prudential Securities, Lazard, and State Street Bank, among others. He generally covers mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, business expansion and restructuring.

Also, he is a journalist on a changing China in relation to global development. His articles or columns have appeared in "Asia Times", "Beijing Review", "The Seoul Times", "Financial Sense", "Gurus Online", "Money Week", "Online Opinion", "Asia Venture Capital Journal", and "Sinomania", among others. He is the author of three additional books, "China Beyond Deng: Reforms in the PRC" (McFarland, 1991), "China and New World Order: How Entrepreneurship, Globalization, and Borderless Business Reshape China and World" (Fultus, September 2006), and "Made in China: Players and Challengers in the 21st Century" (Portuguese edition, Centro Atlantico, 2005). He is a member of "World Association of International Studies" hosted at Stanford University.