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

30 CultureShock! China The Chinese People First off, it’s important to recognise the complexity of definitions. ‘Who is Chinese? ...

The Chinese 31 Name of Group Approximate Population Native Region (note: most groups now have nationwide distribution) Yi 7,762, ...

32 CultureShock! China These and similar questions, as with ‘what makes an American’ or ‘who is a Jew’, are freighted with emoti ...

The Chinese 33 Suits’. The Chinese call them the ‘Zhong-shan-fu’ or ‘ Sun Yat-sen suits’, since Sun, the father of Modern China, ...

34 CultureShock! China as politically uninvolved artists or scientists, or as the most corrupt of power-brokers in China today. ...

The Chinese 35 The Forgotten Farmers In all the hype about rapid industrialisation, moving up the manufacturing value chain and ...

36 CultureShock! China businesspeople may go through entire China assignments never meeting and hardly ever thinking about any o ...

The Chinese 37 throng the day-labour markets which have become features of so many poorer Chinese cities. The xiagang and partly ...

38 CultureShock! China take the toughest ‘no one else wants them’ factory jobs in China’s boomtowns. If, like most businesspeopl ...

The Chinese 39 workers than China’s floating population, but that aspect of globalisation is another story... The New Working Cl ...

40 CultureShock! China transportation, and work very long hours for salaries generous by Chinese standards, but still just a fra ...

The Chinese 41 issues of Party loyalty, and far more with performance that make China (and thus, yes, the Party) succeed. Leader ...

42 CultureShock! China hills, swinging from trees (believed in traditional Chinese medicine to help strengthen the lungs as well ...

The Chinese 43 Drop-Outs and Druggies, Artists and the Avant-Garde As with any modern nation, China has many people living at th ...

44 CultureShock! China in many Chinese cities today, and prostitution has returned with a vengeance. As in other nations, those ...

The Chinese 45 farmers working hard on the land despite slumping returns, the floating population struggling to send home earnin ...

46 CultureShock! China Among the poor are much of the floating population, who support their family back in the villages out of ...

The Chinese 47 its advantages to themselves and their families. Companies seen as helping them can ‘do well by doing good’. For ...

48 CultureShock! China systems is playing in breaking down senses of community and personal security. Nevertheless, there is a c ...

The Chinese 49 The following are some key traditional Chinese values with persistent modern echoes. Confucianism As early as 195 ...