"Confessions of a Fake Businessman From Beijing"

Mitch Moxley on how he "became a fake businessman in China, an often lucrative gig for underworked expatriates here" — Rent a White Guy. "Recruiting fake businessmen is one way to create the image—particularly, the image of connection—that Chinese companies crave," he writes. "My Chinese-language tutor, at first aghast about how much we were getting paid, put it this way: 'Having foreigners in nice suits gives the company face.'"