Most of the courses that I took in the last semester were brilliant. Sagiv’s Cultures and Organizations was an in depth analysis into the complications of cross-cultural psychology, Kogan’s Urban Society in Contemporary China – Changes was a unique journey through modern China, Pinnes’ China 1917-1978 was an extraordinary overview of the most amazing [...]
Israel might seem at first as a strange place to consider conducting East Asian research in, but this year a new East-Asian Louis Frieberg Center is being setup at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem-Israel and the new center is offering fellowships.
About the new Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies –
The Center has set [...]
What makes “the East” different from “the West” and how? how similar and closely related are national cultures? Is there a way to measure cultural differences and investigate how cultures “behave” and interact?
In a previous post "National Cultures : Differences and similarities between East and West" I described the leading theory for national cultures suggested [...]
Leaving London and having a few moments to spare at the Heathrow Airport to get rid of my remaining pounds, I entered the book shop and looked for something interesting to read. After consulting with the young lady about a good China related read she referred me to the then recently published "Mao – The [...]
We keep hearing about the Chinese Zodiac – "February 2007 marks the beginning for the year of the Pig", "you were born on the year of the Horse", "do you know the 12 animals that make up the Chinese calendar?". Up till a month ago, I didn’t know much about the Chinese calendar. I knew there were [...]
In a wonderful course titled "Modern Society in Urban China" with Mr. Dror Kochan we were asked to watch two movies out of a list given which deal with urban life in China and write a short review relating to the course’s material and the issues discussed. I thought the list was so good, that [...]
The essay is about a subject discussed in the “Modern Society in Urban China” course: class subject – “Market economy – the poor, the rich and what’s in between; widening the class gap and the growing middle class in China”.
Xinhua – China’s university tuition 25 times higher than in 1989
www.chinaview.cn 2007-01-12 15:11:20
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/12/content_5598419.htm
BEIJING, Jan. [...]
In Cross Cultural Psychology there are many sample cases for cross-cultural difficulties and misunderstandings, some of which have become classics. Last week I participated in Dr. Sagiv’s simulation about the some of those classics testing our cross-cultural knowledge and openness.
First, we were separated into two groups, each group with its own different ‘culture’ for performing a [...]
