Archive for Chinese Culture
China Recruiters, be they International and famous or Domestic, appear to be on the wrong track. Not so long ago we were doing some searching for an American company in West China. Finding talented workers in their remote location is not easy, but the kind of work we like. One candidate complained as we […]
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Paul Wang is my General Manager, and one day we were talking about business culture and problems therein. Paul said, “Jim, Chinese people are all trained politicians.” I was shocked by what he said. I felt there was often a lack of transparency in Chinese people, but I never had put that together in that […]
Continue Reading →China and Teachability are often not concepts we think of together, but we need to. Many word checks will say that teachability is not a word. After a few years managing in China, it became a word I would add to the dictionary. China and Teachability is so valuable and so hard to find. […]
Continue Reading →In the Chinese culture stealing is understood different than in the West. Let me explain why Chinese are different. Then I will tell you some examples that you may have had experience with here in China. China has two words that are instructive on Chinese attitudes toward theft. The word 偷 (tou1) means to steal. […]
Continue Reading →I want to mention a book by John K. Fairbanks. It was published in 1967, and the title is China: The People’s Middle Kingdom and the U.S.A In that time, China was in the middle of the cultural revolution and was killing and torturing itself in horrible ways. It was further vilifying America in every […]
Continue Reading →I was once fed up with the lack of clarity in the Chinese culture, but one day I had the fortune of flying to China seated next to a Chinese Wushu teacher. He lived in Canada. When he realized I spoke Chinese, he immediately began to unload his frustration on me. “You Westerners are so blame specific. It is […]
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