People's Republic of China

Part 2 Own Culture- Chinese Culture A1 .Social Customs Social Norm There are several social norms of the Chinese people that they follow, which are table manners, respect for old people or senior citizen, greeting elderly, and polite when talking with anyone, and so on. In the Chinese culture, table manner are very important. When you’re dining out, you should not make noise or talk too loud, it is very impolite in Chinese culture. Furthermore, when the food arrives on the table, you are…

Geoffrey Benjamin says “In order to demonstrate the distinctiveness of each of the four cultures their differences have to be heightened, their similarities underplayed, and expressive forms have to be developed to display their separate-but-equal status” (Benjamin, 1976). Even though his article was written in 1976, just 11 years after Singapore’s independence, I think that his view still holds to a large extent in relation to the Singaporean society today. Firstly, historically being a…

building strong links with China’s peasantry. Whilst based in the peasant province of Jiangxi, he forged strong links with 3 million peasants, who responded well to Mao's focused, peasant-based revolutionary programme during the period of his “Socialist Republic”. During the Long March to Yenan, he had a large influence among the peasant communities he met during the 6000 mile trek . It was the success of these peasant-based social programmes that Mao was rapidly able to rise to a position of…

Chinese strategic culture It is very hard to define the meaning of strategic culture. According to Andrew Scobell, it is a persistent system of values held in common by the leaders or group of leaders of a state concerning the use of military force (Scobell 1999). Strategic culture consists of common beliefs, cultural assumptions, and behavior of individuals, based on shared experience and collective identification of a group’s relationship (Delios and Henisz, 2003). Research by Nisbett…

Seemingly this approach originates from China as Feng Shui is a Chinese system/belief. In order to answer the thesis statement thoroughly sub questions had been formulated. The sub questions are: “How did Feng Shui came to existence?” This subquestion will provide the information to answer the…

ruled China under a Communist form of government. Throughout Mao’s reign, a number disasterous military, economic, and social endeavors should have buried him politically. Some of these endeavors include China’s involvement in the Korean War, the Great Leap Forward, division of the Communist party, and relations with the Soviet Union and the United States. However, his popularity and role as the ultimate leader kept Mao in power, so much so as to spark the Cultural Revolution that left China in…

It seemed that the locals were upset by a big American corporation extracting profits from a their market. In the year 2000, when Starbucks first opened its doors in both American and China, Big Macs were sold in Beijing and Boston, but as Yan Yunxiang has argued, "the experiences of eating them and even the meaning of going to McDonalds in these two locales was very different in the 1990s" page 21. In Beijing, a Big Mac was viewed as…

China is experiencing a remarkable religious renaissance that includes dark ages during Mao Zedong period, and revival and also reform in many traditional forms (Madsen 2011, p. 18). Religions not only in terms of organizations and conflicts, but also individual belief and convictions shaped the many of transformation of the history with continuous influence on society for the past few centuries (Dubois 2011, p. 1). Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Legalism have major impact in Asian society,…

pyrite, quartz, tourmaline, mica, limestone and so on. Xintai city Yang Liu Zhen yanlingguan are buried in the vicinity of the Archean period of komatiite, is recognized by the world around Tibet.（2）water resource：The average surface water resources in China is 460 million cubic meters, the development and utilization rate is 30%., the amount of groundwater resources is 280 million cubic meters, and the utilization rate of development is 80%.（3）Land resources： in mountainous, hilly, three basic…

K’ung Fu-tzu (Confucius) was a Chinese philosopher that was born in the 6th century B.C. (Bio). During his lifetime China was in complete disarray. The dynasty that ruled at the time (Zhou Dynasty) was overtaken with states fighting against each other (China Highlights). The morale of the country was at an all-time low. However, along came Confucius and, with his teachings, helped transform an entire country with his beliefs. His message helped restore harmony and stability to a country that…