China – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

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Culture Smart! China puts the contemporary dramatic changes into a historical context, explains deep-seated cultural attitudes, and guides the visitor through a maze of unfamiliar social situations. It’ll enable you to discover for yourself the warmth, intelligence, humor, and humanity of this strange people. The spectacular Beijing Olympics of 2008 heralded China’s arrival as an economic superpower. When the world plunged into economic crisis, in China, too, factories closed, but most unemployed workers simply made their as far back as the countryside. The patience, diligence, enterprise, and natural optimism that are a part of the Chinese character helped tide it over the setback. New mega-cities sprang up, peopled by a generation of city dwellers, light years away from their parents’ rural world. The Chinese have at all times taken a long-term view of events. They’re proud of their ancient civilization and their brand new achievements. A few of the young, educated, urban elite there is an eagerness to speak about issues that were formerly “off limits.”
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