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James Chan
@spareroom.bsky.social
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Consultant; author of Spare Room Tycoon
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 17h
I’m reading a short excerpt from Chapter 27 in the novel Journey to the West about the White Bone Spirit that wants to devour the monk in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9bt...
White Bone Spirit in Journey to the West
YouTube video by James Chan
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 18h
This is how I keep up my friendship and business ties in China: jchanamm.substack.com/p/how-i-caug...
How I Caught My Fish: Keeping Business and Friendship Ties in China
My personal Substack
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 19h
Makes me feel that CEOs want to distance themselves from their employees. Hard to believe that the enterprises will succeed.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 22h
I reflected on 42 years of running a consulting practice in Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Reflections on a Spare Room Tycoon Way of Life
2025 is my 42nd Year as an independent business consultant
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 22h
Thank you. The New York Times ran the same piece dated September 19, 1985 by Herbert Mitgang. Recently, I read his 200 Italian folktales and enjoyed it immensely.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 1d
This is hard to read. Is there another way to display the text? Thank you.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 5d
Very beautiful and serene. What does it sound like?
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 10d
I don’t doubt it. Being secretly in love is stressful.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 11d
Empathy and compassion for others are related to empathy and compassion for oneself. When lightning strikes your neighbor, it will strike you too. When they cheat your neighbors, they‘ll cheat you next.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 13d
The sentiment still applies today.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 15d
This is how I maintain my business and friendship ties in China: www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-i-...
How I Caught My Fish
Fifteen years ago, when bilateral relations between the United States and China had not yet soured, the owner of a precision-instrument manufacturing company asked me to recruit a sales representative...
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 19d
I think the guy in the middle was stressed out.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 19d
What did they eat? Or did they care?
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 19d
Alpha male needs help.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 20d
This New Yorker cartoon (Sept. 29, 2025 issue, p. 31) has rich, meaningful ambiguity (RMA). Looming presence, sharp teeth, and red eyes. Hardcopy cartoon much better.
The New Yorker, Sept. 29, 2015, page 31.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 20d
It is $23.00 a pound, French Roast, at The Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia today. I bought it.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 20d
They both start with a D. So much for critical thinking.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 20d
1,094% is counting. The sky is the limit in their minds.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 20d
The Iliad translated by Robert Fagles: “Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 21d
I visited my beloved teacher Professor Rhoads Murphey and his good wife Eleanor today at the Church of St. James the Less in Philadelphia to thank them for their friendship and support. I sought Rhoads out as my intellectual father in the 1970s in Ann Arbor, Michigan and he reciprocated.
Tombstone of Professor Rhoads Murphey and Mrs. Eleanor Murphey at St. James the Less Church in Philadelphia.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 23d
Obviously, no one can turn the tide yet.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 23d
“Postpone anger until tomorrow.” I put this to work and saved a decadeslong family tie by engaging in small gossips in a calm, quiet manner. Luckily, the other person reciprocated in kind. Whew!
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 24d
The 200 stories in Italo Calvino’s Italian Folktales have one thing in common in my estimation: the common people who had no power got some laughs over the kings and queens who ruled over them. Fantasies yes but useful and needed escape. Very creative.
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 25d
I’m happy to have finished reading all 200 of Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino today. My favorites are “Frankie-Boy,” “Solomon’s Advice,” and “Jump into My Sack.”
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James Chan @spareroom.bsky.social · 26d
I appreciate your reporting on trade and maritime matters. Thank you.