Culture Shock! China - A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette, 2nd Edition

China A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette CultureShock! Angie Eagan Rebecca Weiner cs! china.indd 1 1/27/11 11:59:04 AM ...

A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette CultureShock! China Angie Eagan Rebecca Weiner CS! China.indb i 3/14/11 10:06 AM ...

This 2nd edition published in 2011 by: Marshall Cavendish Corporation 99 White Plains Road Tarrytown, NY 10591- http://www.marsh ...

ABOUT THE SERIES Culture shock is a state of disorientation that can come over anyone who has been thrust into unknown surroundi ...

CONTENTS Foreword vi Acknowledgements viii Dedication ix ...

Chapter Map of China x First Impressions Wild Wild East Chapter Overview and History Five Thousand Years of History Chaos and ...

vi FOREWORD As soon as you walk out of the airport gates, China hits you: the sounds, the smells, but mostly the incredible dens ...

vii Chapter Seven provides an orientation of festivals, holidays, entertainment and destinations that take your China adventure, ...

viii All who contributed to this book met in China in 1995, when she was fondly referred to as the ‘Wild, Wild East’. It was a t ...

DEDICATION ix This book is dedicated to those who have loved us with their arms open wide enough to let us take in the World. CS ...

x MAP OF CHINA MONGOLIA CHINA NORTH KOREA INDIA TAIWAN RUSSIA SOUTH KOREA YELLOW SEA SEACHINA EAST SEACHINA SOUTH KAZAKHSTAN KYR ...

‘ “What’s the name of that song of yours? I’m asking you what its called,” (the village headman) snapped. “Mozart is thinking of ...

2 CultureShock! China Wild Wild East Imagine living in a city where if you forget to pick up your dry cleaning for just a week, ...

First Impressions 3 of change happening around you minute by minute. It was clearly the most exciting place to live and do busin ...

4 CultureShock! China The single question people ask when they hear that you have lived in China for ten plus years is “When wil ...

‘...4,350 years have passed from the fi rst year of the Yellow Emperor to the present, and three hundred and one emperors are li ...

6 CultureShock! China Five Thousand Years of History Ever wonder why the Great Wall was built? Or how grand European architectur ...

Overview and History 7 The Beginning How did it begin? Legends abound about China’s earliest years, many of them involving wild ...

8 CultureShock! China unfortunately, their place was often alongside a Shang king or nobleman in his final resting place—the Sha ...

Overview and History 9 Eventually, the Qin, the strongest state of the seven or so remaining by the 4th century BC, fought its w ...