Dr G Venkat Raman is currently a faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Management, Indore, since February 23rd 2015. He is one of those young Indian sinologists who has had a unique experience of being part of the academic as well as the corporate world in China during the course of his six years and eight months stay in China during the period June 2003 to Jan 2010. Apart from being fluent in Mandarin he has the distinction of being one of the few Indians who have been awarded a doctoral degree by a Chinese university and the first in the recent memory to be awarded a doctoral degree by the most prestigious Chinese university,(the School of Government) Peking University, Beijing.