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Setting Up Representative Offices in China

  • Practical overview for the international businessman
  • Helps you to understand the implications
  • Tells you the basics of what you need to know
  • Points you at the structures you should use as well as some of the pitfalls

Part of the book series: China Briefing (China Briefing)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Establishing Representative Offices

    • Chris Devonshire-Ellis, Andy Scott, Sam Woollard
    Pages 1-8
  3. Staffing the Organization

    • Chris Devonshire-Ellis, Andy Scott, Sam Woollard
    Pages 9-26
  4. Tax and Financial Issues

    • Chris Devonshire-Ellis, Andy Scott, Sam Woollard
    Pages 27-36
  5. Other Issues

    • Chris Devonshire-Ellis, Andy Scott, Sam Woollard
    Pages 37-42
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 43-47

About this book

Do you want to do business in China? If you are already in this vast country and want to know more, or if you have never tried your hand at this fascinating market, then this book is for you. This Guide is a practical overview for the international businessman to understand the rules, regulations and management issues regarding establishing Representative Offices in China. We will help you to understand the implications of what can initially appear be a complicated and contradictory subject. This book tells you the basics of what you need to know, and point you at the structures you should use as well as some of the pitfalls. This book is the first in a new series of books on doing business in China, which will progressively cover such topics as setting up wholly foreign-owned enterprises, setting up joint ventures, tax, IP and many other vital issues for foreign investors in this exciting market.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Asia Briefing Ltd., Dezan Shira & Associates, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong/PR China

    Chris Devonshire-Ellis, Andy Scott, Sam Woollard

About the editors

Dezan Shira & Associates is a specialist foreign direct investment practice, providing business advisory, tax, accounting, payroll and due diligence services to multinationals investing in China, Hong Kong, India and Vietnam. Established in 1992, the firm is a leading regional practice in Asia with seventeen offices in four jurisdictions, employing over 170 business advisory and tax professionals.

Dezan Shira & Associates provides a combination of business advisory and accounting services to our clients, giving them the ability to acquire professional knowledge in the local legal regulatory environment in each country as well as the tax and financial implications of doing so.

We also provide useful business information through our media and publishing house, Asia Briefing.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Setting Up Representative Offices in China

  • Editors: Chris Devonshire-Ellis, Andy Scott, Sam Woollard

  • Series Title: China Briefing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16071-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-16070-7Published: 19 May 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-16071-4Published: 18 May 2011

  • Series ISSN: 2191-0634

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-0642

  • Edition Number: 4

  • Number of Pages: VII, 44

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Emerging Markets/Globalization, Entrepreneurship

Buy it now

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eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
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  • Read on any device
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Softcover Book USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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