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

50 CultureShock! China Focus on Education One aspect of Confucian values which continues to have a very strong and largely very ...

The Chinese 51 Family Values American watchdog groups who advocate strong family ties might well look to China for what truly st ...

52 CultureShock! China lives (from choices of clothes and appliances to choices of a spouse and job) to a degree most Americans ...

The Chinese 53 Chinese people’s lives remain powerful, which can bring both advantage and disadvantage from the perspective of a ...

54 CultureShock! China With exposure to new ideas, such traditional ‘us-them’ attitudes are starting to shift in China. As prese ...

Chinese families visit relatives and close friends during the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival. Many of them wear the tradition ...

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c The Forbidden City was the Chinese Imperial Palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. This beautiful exampl ...

d A lion dance performed during the Spring Festival. Drums and cymbals accompany the performance and create loud, noisy beats wh ...

e Street shopping in China can be a rewarding experience for visitors. Stalls offer a variety of items whose prices can be furth ...

f China wowed the world with its majestic opening ceremony at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. The event was held at the Beijing N ...

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h Duck is a favourite meat with each ethnic group developing its own style of cooking. One such dish is roast duck rice (feature ...

The Chinese 55 Today, these traditions—the nationalist and the internationalist—continue to coexist in creative tension in China ...

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The Chinese 57 Women in modern China enjoy greater gender equality and independence, and many successfully juggle family life an ...

58 CultureShock! China to include an economically classless society, created via land reform and restructuring of the economy an ...

The Chinese 59 Cultural Revolution years were forced to think of other ways to construct their lives, and have since become some ...

‘In China, the sharp divide of insider and outsider dominates other distinctions. The insider, no matter how he fails, is accept ...

Socialising 61 Socialising with the Locals In 1997, one of the author’s colleagues was making his first trip to the United State ...