Professor Ming-Jer Chen, a specialist in business strategy and East-West competition at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, also says that many of these women entered the business world in response to the trying times of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Their entrepreneurial ambitions were fuelled by a desire to provide a better life for their children, but also by a Confucian view of work. “Those values, like working to exhaustion, are the unique characteristics of Chinese entrepreneurs both in mainland China and overseas,” Chen explained to the Darden Ideas to Action websi...