Perfect for business, pleasure, or armchair travelers, China A to Z explains the customs, culture, and etiquette essential for any trip or for anyone wanting to understand this complex country. In nearly one hundred brief, reader-friendly chapters, alphabetized by subject, China A to Zintroduces a general audience to contemporary Chinese society, as well as its venerable history.
Perfect for business, pleasure, or armchair travelers, China A to Z explains the customs, culture, and etiquette essential for any trip or for anyone wanting to understand this complex country. In nearly one hundred brief, reader-friendly chapters, alphabetized by subject, China A to Zintroduces a general audience to contemporary Chinese society, as well as its venerable history. Discover:
Why Chinese names are written in reverse order of Western names
What thecurrent relationship is between Japan and China
Why you should wrap gifts in red or pink paper, and never send white flowers
Whythere are more boys than girls in China
What you should bring when visiting a Chinese household
From architecture and body language to Confucianism and feng shui, China A to Zoffers accessible and entertaining basic information about China, now the fourth most popular destination in the world.
Introduction
Animals
Architecture
Banquets
Bargaining
Beijing
Body Language
Buddhism
Canton (Guangzhou)
Cars
Chiang Kai-shek
Children
Chinese Communist Party
Chongqing
Colors
Confucianism
Corruption
Cultural Revolution
Dalai Lama
Daoism
Deng Xiaoping
Dialects
Dissidents
Dynasties
Education
Ethnic Minorities
Face
Family
Farmers
Feng Shui
Festivals
Film
Food
Forbidden City
Gang of Four
Gay and Lesbian Culture
Gifts
Gong Li
Government
Great Leap Forward
Great Wall
Guanxi (Connections)
Guomindang (Kuomintang or KMT)
Hand Gestures
History
Hong Kong
Hu Jintao
Human Rights
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Interracial Relationships
Jiang Qing
Jiang Zemin
Kunming
Li Peng
Long March
Lu Xun (Lu Hsun)
Macau
Maggie Cheung
Mao Zedong
Martial Arts
Medicine (Traditional)
Music
Names
Nanjing
National Holidays
Novelists
One Child Policy
One Country, Two Systems
Peking Opera
People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
Pinyin Spelling System
Public Displays of Affection
Qi
Qingdao (Tsing-tao)
Religion
Respect for Elders
Shanghai
Shenzhen Special Economic Zone
Shopping
Sino-Japanese War
The Soong Sisters
South China Sea
Spring Festival
Sun Yat-sen
Tailors and Clothing
Taiwan
Three Gorges Dam
Tiananmen Square Pro-Democracy Movement
Tibet
Tipping
Urumqi
Visiting a Home
Wen Jiabao
Xi’an
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
Yuan
Zhong Guo
Ziyi Zhang
Notes
Index