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

10 CultureShock! China punishments for breaking them. From 221to 206 BC, these laws were used to maintain order against a consta ...

Overview and History 11 Within the government, the Han chose its officials based on merit. Dealing with the conniving eunuchs, i ...

12 CultureShock! China agriculture and handicrafts, culture and commerce—during this time period, the Chinese invented compasses ...

Overview and History 13 first century, but with the fall of the Han, it began to catch on amid an increasingly eclectic mix of t ...

14 CultureShock! China The An Lu Shan Rebellion Though still a feudal society, the Tang dynasty was a prosperous one for much of ...

Overview and History 15 major failure. The Mongols, led by Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis, crossed into China’s territory, ...

16 CultureShock! China Power became increasingly centralised in the emperor himself, who eventually moved the capital from Nanji ...

Overview and History 17 began to slowly turn inwards. Naval exploits were replaced by a spate of navel-gazing. Though looking in ...

18 CultureShock! China were levelled at any envoy of a foreign power that visited the early Qing imperial court, limiting China’ ...

Overview and History 19 Strangely enough, this intensive intrusion by foreign powers was balanced by ad hoc support from these s ...

20 CultureShock! China draft a constitution and democratise the political system— which did include the formation of the Kuomint ...

Overview and History 21 named Chiang Kai-shek, who returned to China and assumed the leadership of the Whampoa Military Academy. ...

22 CultureShock! China recognising that they risked losing everything to yet another foreign power, the KMT and Communist Party ...

Overview and History 23 Chiang Kai-shek and his followers (along with numerous crates of national treasures) quickly fled to the ...

24 CultureShock! China from her neighbours. Following closely on the heels of Mao’s experiment came a decisive break with (and c ...

Overview and History 25 But as with rulers before him, the possibility that his position as the supreme ruler was under threat g ...

26 CultureShock! China The story of his remarkable opening of China to foreign investment and establishment of a ‘socialist mark ...

Overview and History 27 the rich and the poor, China continues down her path of development, creation and innovation, affording ...

‘The Han Chinese didn’t get to be the all-time world champion ethnic group by being nice guys...’ —Neal Stephenson, in Wired mag ...

The Chinese 29 THE PEOPLE OF THE ‘PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC’ With some 1.31 billion people by official count (up to 1.5 billion by some ...