Most people who like tea are familiar with the famous British Earl Grey Tea, but few know about its Chinese origins.
Yair Amir writes a cute column in the last page of the Jerusalem City Mouse city guide (Achbar Ha-ir) where he looks up answers to questions mailed to him by readers. Here’s a quick translation of [...]
It is widely acknowledged that the Chinese culture has a somewhat different perception of how business is conducted. Guanxi, the Chinese social capital term, is the most widely discussed term to describe the Chinese business world, in both China and Taiwan. It is commonly used to emphasis the difference between Chinese and "western" business culture, and the difficulties [...]
I thought newspapers here will be full of Chinese New Year world coverage, but after some quick browsing of the leading local websites it’s embarrassing to admit the fact that I’ve found absolutely nothing - the world’s biggest holiday goes unnoticed in this part of the world.
But still, the Chinese embassy held an official get-together yesterday [...]
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 [...]
Where will you be spending your Chinese new year? Hopefully, you get a chance to actually have Chinese new years in China/Taiwan.
Me? Being still very far away from Asia, I found out I have 3 options, which all sound great:
The Chinese loving Israelis from the "China culture and language" are meeting up. Details here.
The Chinese [...]
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 role of Confucianism in the Chinese society has gone through tremendous changes in the past century. After years of direct attacks against Confucianism by the Chinese Communists, Confucianism is on a comeback, and surprisingly enough it is now made mainstream by the Communist Party itself which is promoting Confucian studies and research in China [...]
