How understanding Chinese history can help your business in China

Britain’s trade with China during the Qing dynasty and the UK’s current obsession with Huawei may have more in common than you think. Sinologist Linda Jaivin’s ‘The Shortest History of China’ attempts to condense the country’s ‘unruly complexity’ into a genuinely useful book for anyone trying to understand the country better. Paul French finds out more. The books in the “Shortest Histories” series are not actually that short – 250 pages…