chinese-values
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Face concerns 面子问题
In
China, face saving and face giving are crucial
values. As one can see, Chinese
always live in
the eyes of the others and pay much attention on
their reputation.
person has a face as every
tree has a bark
人要脸,树要皮
as the Chinese
saying
goes. As one has put that to lose one's
credit is just like one's eyes, nose,
and
mouthSocial judgment as a personal asset and as a
family asset is considered
as vital. The worst
thing that can happen to Chinese is to lose face,
to feel
humiliated. For Chinese, not showing
ignorance is more important than telling the
truth. Maintaining face is always prior over
other issues.
（举例说明In this regard,
the 19th century with events like the Nanjing and
the
Tianjin treaties and the sack of the
Summer palace, explain a lot of what happened
during the 19th century in terms of
humiliation, national bitterness and restoration
of reputation. The fact that one of the
current best sellers in China is titled
can
say no）
Trust
In the tough,
reckless, merciless global Chinese society, there
is no room for trust.
Suspicious is normal in
daily life. Trust is required in doing business,
building
and maintaining a good
relationship.
Thus, any business starts
with establishing
a relationship. This will
hopefully thwart dirty tricks and hidden agendas
of all
sorts. One must develop a spheremade of
friends, relatives with whom
business can be
carried out minimal risk. This explains the
eagerness of the Chinese
to develop personal
networks or rely on the family, meeting thus a
basic Confucian
value.
While in Chinese
culture, cleverness and shrewdness are viewed as
superior to
strength and law. Chinese people
are used to getting to back door rather than
following the rules or laws.
Centrality
The Chinese operate from concentric同心的
circles: China, center of the world;
Beijing,
center of China (with the whole country at Beijing
time); Zhong Nan Hai
(the new forbidden city
where political power stays) is the heart of
Beijing. The
geographical and political
structures completely overlap.
Centrality
applies as well to cultural issues. Everything is
assessed from a
sino-centric point of view.
The reference is China, Chinese views, Chinese
needs,
Chinese values, Chinese tastes, and
Chinese food. While negotiating with Chinese
leaders, Kissinger had to permanently deal
with what he conceptualized as the
Kingdom
Syndrome
Individuation个性
Among Chinese
traditional values, changes have taken place;
apparently can be
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identified on the process of
Individualism, the way it is understood
in the West, is not a newly established main
value but there is a clear trend towards
personal responsibility.
(三方面举例Privatization
of State-owned Enterprises, development of joint
ventures
and Wholly Foreign-owned Enterprises
introduce new methods of management based on
individual performance. The multiplication of
small businesses relying on a very
small
number of people brings personal responsibility to
the foreground. The current
trend is increased
accountability as an individual rather than to be
a number of
a group which bears as a whole the
responsibility.企业方面
A sharp analyst of
Chinese family values is also challenged in many
aspects. In places
such as Shanghai or
Beijing, it is not unusual that the son or
daughter who has studied
abroad earns a salary
twenty times higher than what the father gets,
questioning
the traditional family
hierarchy.家庭观念方面
Another significant
indicator of the phenomenon is the surprising rise
of the number
of divorces. These new trends
indicate that people take more and more their
personal
interest and their individual needs
into consideration and make them
priorities.
个人观念）
Money-oriented
behavior拜金行为
Along with individuation, showing
external signs of wealth has become a social basic
requirement. It can be analyzed as a search
for status, for social recognition, an
ambivalent desire of identification to the new
trend and a quest for differentiating
oneself
socially, which comes up with a new identity issue
in changing China, since
Chinese believe that
more money means better life.
On the
other hand, people are becoming definitively
richer than ever before, but
there are some
drawbacks:
Seeking quick and easy money leads
to widespread corruption. Civil servants use their
position to extort bribes and the Party as
well as the government can heavily punish
corrupted members when discovered. It also
leads to gambling, smuggling, cheating
and
counterfeiting, another serious problem that still
has to be solved in spite
of recent efforts
made by the central government.
The
concept of time
Traditionally, time was
understood as an unlimited resource fully
available like
the air that people breathe.
Now, time becomes money and in business
transactions
costs are increasingly taken into
account. It does not take any longer three to four
years to sign a joint venture contract.
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Traditionally companies and people were long
term oriented. Time was not understood
as a
sum of hours, minutes and seconds but as the
general course of events and seasons.
A
radical shift in perspectives is occurring and
short-term views now tend to
prevail.
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