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Negotiation And Development Of Business In China
4,952 wordsThe Chinese Economy, Culture & Society The social values and history have shaped and formed the economical developments and the current environment of business in the People's Republic of China. They have determined the patterns for negotiation and the Chinese perceptions of business, and their feelings towards westerners. The implicit and explicit rules that the Chinese society has on the development of businesses, and the economy in general, are very important issues for any person going into ...
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Love Of Chinese Culture
857 words22/4/2005 2nd Week SAILING WITH CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS First of all, I found many holes about the account of Zheng He and the reasons I want to point out about why I don't want to travel with Zheng He are as follows. Zheng He's ships of 300 and 28000 men are far too large a number to be traveling and his ships are as big as 400 feet which is over 100 meter in length. I wonder how can a fleet of ships as large as that had traveled by sea to other countries of Africa and not make history in other pa...
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Laurence Yep
2,094 wordsPresenting Laurence Yep Laurence Yep is noted for creating vivid and complex characters based on his own experiences. Yep's most famous work is Dragonwings. It has won several awards, including the Newbery Honor for 1976, the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award for 1976, and the American Library Association's Notable Children's Book Award for 1975 (Johnson-Feelings 353). The story starts at the turn of the century when Moon Shadow moves to America to live with his father wh...
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Art And Orchid's Daughter
2,875 wordsThe stories Maus and The Woman Warrior that we read this semester seem very different from each other, but I think that they both contain similarities and can be contrasted readily. The Woman Warrior by Maxing Hong Kingston like Maus by Art Spiegelman deals with storytelling and tradition derived from racial issues. These books are not merely based on race though. Culture, identity, language, heritage, history, and discrimination are all components in the compositions of Maus and The Woman Warri...
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Face And Honour To The Oriental Cultures
3,587 wordsJames Clavell's Exploration Of Ancient Oriental CustomsByJeremy SetterfieldNov. 26th, 2004 Setterfield 1 James Clavell certainly had his work cut out for him when he chose to write his "Asian Saga" series of novels. Exposing the customs and culture of the ancient Orient is a daunting task for even the most qualified professional. However, to do so with an intriguing and entertaining medium is verging on impossibility. Until the last two centuries, both China and Japan remained time capsules that...
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Save Face Cultures
411 wordsIn the book Iron and Silk, written by Mark Salzman as his point of view, is all about China. Throughout the book, Mark experiences many differences between the Chinese culture and his own American culture. Chinese people want to save face by doing some weird things. First example, kissing in China over the age of two is embarrassing for both children and parents. Mark finds Teacher Lui telling him a secret. Every night Teacher Lui kisses his older children when they are asleep. In the United Sta...
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Lao Tai Tai's Fourth Son
656 wordsChina and the West Seventeenth century China had become a "closed country", in effect limiting how much of the "outside" world was allowed into China. In essence China had closed its doors to missionaries and all who would try to push western culture (Christianity, alcohol, opium, etc) onto the Chinese people. Tradition was very important to the Chinese. With the passage of the "unequal treaties" in the nineteenth century the doors were once again opened for missionaries-thus paving the way for ...
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Hidden Identity And Song's Deception To Rene
1,267 wordsHow is it possible to be in love with a man for 20 years, and believe all the time that he is a woman? Did Rene never see Song unclothed? Did his hand never once wonder beneath her clothing? Is it possible that Rene did not know because he did not want to know? That for nearly two decades, he was in love with the "woman" of his dreams, and permitted no reality to interfere. Rene was blinded by his white western fantasies about the submissive Asian woman. He wanted the "ideal" woman, but he was b...
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China During The Sung Dynasty
1,025 wordsThe Sung Dynasty has been referred to the "golden age" of Chinese culture. It immediately precedes the Yuan or Mongol Dynasty, which the West associates with time of Marco Polo's expeditions. Sung Dynasty rulers were content to be masters of China itself, unlike the preceding Tang Dynasty, whose rulers had great expansionist tendencies and brought Central Asia into their political and cultural orbit. China, during the Sung Dynasty, looked inward to herself. Traditional ideas in art forms and rel...
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Trade With The West Many Chinese
1,048 wordsHow far did the replacement of the East India Company following the Mutiny of 1857 improve the way India was governed in the second half of the nineteenth century? Looking at how the Indians lives changed and the way it was governed in the second half of the nineteenth century, one sees many benefits. Before the mutiny, many princes ruled their portion of India. Now, India was united as a country and there was more nationalism, therefore less quarrels and small battles. The improvement in the go...
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New Education Of Chinese Style
1,040 wordsAIMS- It was a movement that aimed to introduce to China Western concepts such as democracy, equality and liberty; also a new style of writing as well as the latest science and technology of the time. The NCM advanced the intellectual Chinese towards the future. This movement provided the intellectual background which made it possible for the dissatisfaction with the Paris peace settlement to develop into a nationwide anti-foriegn movement. It really afforded the Chinese an intellectual backgrou...
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Asians And Other Cultures
1,377 words"Therefore those people who are as different from others as body is from soul or beast from human, and people whose task, that is to say, the best thing to come from them, is to use their bodies are in this condition? those people are natural slaves. And it is better for the other things we mentioned. For he who can belong to someone else, and he who shares in reason to the extent of understanding it, but does not have it himself, is a natural slave.? Said Aristotle (1254 b, 15, Ch 5). There is ...
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Differences Between Westerners And Chinese Behaviour
2,147 wordsTopic: Discuss the industrial relations challenges faced by an American owned hospitality business wishing to expand into Asian country. "The growing importance of world business has created a demand for managers sophisticated in global management and skilled at working with people from other countries. Cross-cultural management explains the behaviour of people in organisations with employee and client populations from many different cultures... and seeks to understand and improve the interactio...
