Chinese Business Etiquette: A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in thePeople's Republic of ChinaEast-West business is booming as thousands of people flock to China. The author, with 25 years of experience dealing with the Chinese, provides up-to-date advice on how to succeed, avoid gaffes, interpret behaviour and make positive impressions. |
Contents
Getting in Touch | |
Meeting and greeting people | |
Some Basic Cultural Differences | |
The Chinese Banquet | |
Giftgiving | |
Guanxi Grease for the Wheels of China | |
Mianzi About Face | |
Getting Things Done in China | |
Hosting the Chinese | |
Afterword | |
Appendix | |
LijieThe Fine Art of Politeness | |
The Business Meeting | |
Retationships with foreigners | |
Glossary | |
About the Author | |
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Chinese Business Etiquette: A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in ... Scott D. Seligman No preview available - 2014 |
Chinese Business Etiquette: A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in ... Scott D. Seligman No preview available - 1999 |
Chinese Business Etiquette: A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in ... Scott D. Seligman No preview available - 2008 |
Common terms and phrases
acceptable airport arrangements baijiu behavior Beijing Book of Rites bureau bureaucracy Chapter China Chinese delegation Chinese friend Chinese host Chinese language Chinese official Chinese organization Chinese side Chinese standards chopsticks common Confucian Confucius corporation counterpart cultural Cultural Revolution danwei deal discussion dish drink English especially etiquette example expected fact favor feel foreign guests formal gift guanxi hand high-ranking Hong Kong host organization important individual interpreter invitation iron rice bowl karaoke laowai leader less lose face loss of face mainland mainland China Maotai matter meal means meeting mianzi negotiations never obligation offer one's person pinyin polite principal guest principal host probably protocol qipao rank reason relationships relatively request responsibility restaurant rule seated seldom served Shanghai signal simply situation social someone sometimes speak sure Taiwan things toast trip visitors Wang Westerners wish