Archive for Chinese Culture
What are Chinese people like is an audacious topic, and one like I often want to tackle. Having focused on recruiting since 1997, I dig in on these kind of topics. Each person in China is different. They have different personalities and different family and school backgrounds. Finally, they have different work experiences before they […]
Continue Reading →Have you heard about the Tusimple fraud case? Topically, it falls under cover ups in China. In China, that is not news as cover ups are so common. Let me lay out the case then come back to the topic. Hou Xiaodi and Chen Mo founded Tusimple in the US in 2015 and went public […]
Continue Reading →Chinese Morality is on the table today. China is growing and will keep growing because the government is smart and capable to find a good path to keep things going. However, I wanted to send you this quote from Sinica. China’s lack of affordable housing, its food and air pollution, the country’s poor education system […]
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China 5000 years different indeed. No one denies that, but many times companies come to China and do not know what those differences entail. Before I started my own company, I worked for a company that helped US companies start factories in China. We had a matrix of many factors in helping the customer decide […]
Continue Reading →Confucianism, Daoism and hiring in China are not usually topics to put together. However, knowing the cultural backdrop for hiring someone in China is certainly valuable. Let’s look together and consider. The other Confucianist, Daoist countries after China are Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Singapore, and Vietnam. They all have their own flavor, but note […]
Continue Reading →Our standard English writing base comes from Shakespeare and the King James Bible. Chinese written language started to standardize due to Journey to the West, Dream of Red Chamber, Romance of Three Kingdoms and Water Margins. These works in China and America helped to standardize our common written languages as they were so fabulously popular. Journey […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →China is growing to be more like the West day by day, but we all know it will never be the West. Have you noticed that “China is Walls” and the West is open fields? If you visit an American university almost all are open and welcoming in nature as you drive up to them. […]
Continue Reading →Chinese Cultural differences should be respected when talking food preferences. What about differences in levels of honesty? Recently, we explained a lie on a resume to a client. The client declined to go further even though the guy interviewed well. We heartily agreed to not move forward with this guy. Chinese Cultural Differences in Lying […]
Continue Reading →I was at a trade show in Shanghai yesterday and started talking with a Chinese leader for a US company that worked closely with and knew OSI Group and the scandal that had devastated them in China. They also earn money with these same large US companies because of trust issues in the food chain. […]
Continue Reading →What are some common elements in Chinese mentality? Is China a victim of history? Should China and Chinese people carry an underdog mentality into work or onto the world stage? Chinese Mentality Well it does and a recent research paper call Unmasking China’s Assertive Behavior in the Maritime Sphere helps explain. I paste a portion of […]
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