Fili’s world

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 [...]

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. [...]

Israeli blogs about Chinese culture and life in China/Taiwan are hard to find, yet what’s even harder to find is a Chinese/Taiwanese blog about Israeli culture and life in Israel. Up till a week ago I haven’t been able to find any blogs at all, and writing an Israeli perspective blog about China/Taiwan I’ve always wondered what [...]

What is China 2007 going to be like? Do you have any predictions about what’s going to happen in China or in regards to China on 2007? 
 
I’m very curious about the China English/Expat bloggers opinions on this issue. Following "ProBlogger’s Group Writing Project - Reviews and Predictions" I thought I should ask the few China [...]

This Wednesday, a representative from the Chinese embassy came to talk to the students of the Hebrew University about Chinese studies in China. Mr. Li requested that all the Hebrew University students who studied in China come and talk to him. Although I’ve studied in Taiwan and not China, and even that wasn’t for very [...]

China and Israel, Chinese culture and Jewish culture, those sometimes seem very different from one another. It’s usually easier to point out the differences than discuss the similarities, but looking deeper into the two it feels as though there are connections.
In the past few months that I’ve been back from Asia, I’ve listened to [...]

China related blogs are a necessity to deal with my endless curiosity for the Chinese culture but they're not enough. I still need the class interaction and dynamics, that which I've experienced last year when I joined up the East-Asia department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a listener.
As the new academic year 2006-7 [...]