Culture Smart! China: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture - Couverture souple

Flower, Kathy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1857335023 ISBN 13 : 9781857335026

Editeur : Kuperard, 2009

Synopsis

The spectacular Beijing Olympics of signalled China s arrival as a superpower on the world stage. The global economic crisis that followed saw it become banker to the West, poised to eclipse the United States. This new edition of Kathy Flower s bestselling Culture Smart! China has been revised and updated by the author to take on board the transformation in China s fortunes and the changing face of Chinese society. As China flexes its economic and political muscle abroad, ordinary people feel a new pride in their country s achievements. The embrace of free-market capitalism by the communist state has spread prosperity to many, with fortunes being made by some. But it has created losers as well as winners, particularly in the countryside. Gone is the security of the state s iron rice bowl provision for life, and unemployment or dispossession have opened up social gaps that could threaten its stability. For the moment the rumbling discontent is below the radar and under control, and for millions the Chinese virtues of enterprise, industry, and patience are paying handsome dividends. This edition of Culture Smart! China is completely revised making it the indispensable visitors guide to the complexities of a rapidly changing world power whose ancient culture and traditions owe little to the West.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

KATHY FLOWER is a radio and TV producer, writer, and trainer who has specialized in the teaching of English as a Foreign Language. After leaving Paris where she worked with the British Council, she went to Beijing from 1981 to 1983 and co-presented China s first major English-language teaching series, Follow Me , on Chinese TV. The series ran every night for six years and she is still known to hundreds of millions of viewers as laoshi, or teacher . She has been back to work in China many times since. She runs an independent radio production company and lives in Sussex and southern France.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kuperard
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1857335023
• ISBN 13: 9781857335026
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible