I believe the number one issue most expats or international students feel they face is cross-cultural difficulties. Most find it extremely confusing and frustrating, not being able to understand how a person might think or act so differently. But, interestingly enough, the one thing I realized pretty fast was that cross-cultural differences are just anther version for personal differences. [...]
First week in Tainan my previous Chinese teacher gave up a cultural presentation on some of Taiwan’s popular culture and that’s when I was first introduced to the concept of a toilet restaurant. I read about it in a few blogs around Taiwan, like the latest interesting Wasai project, but didn’t have a chance to [...]
A week ago I got an e-mail titled - "I am glad to be your receptionist~!!!".
Hello !
My Chinese name is <removed>. English name is <removed>.
I’m your receptionist. <personal information removed>
I ‘m a junior student majoring in Account. If you want to visit anywhere in NCKU or have questions you want to ask, you [...]
With the growing presence of Israeli companies in China and Taiwan it’s pretty hard to keep track. The China sector is a bit easier, since the there are websites out there to help Israeli businesses grow in China, and so most of the vital information can be found there. For an updated list of Israeli [...]
Here is a quick roundup of great blog and media articles I read today regarding China and Israel.
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Haaretz has an interesting story about "Harbin’s Jews: Isle of calm for embattled nation"
At the end of January, a group of Israeli journalists arrived at the sub-provincial city of Harbin, capital of the Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China. [...] [...]
Washington Post has an article titled "Sold on a stereotype" about the Jewish stereotype in China (thanks to Peking Duck and Frog in a Well for bringing this up). Seems as though "Jewish wealth" is highly respected in China (/Japan) with books being sold with titles like "The Eight Most Valuable Business Secrets of the [...]
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. [...]
Up there on the top list of questions people ask me about my Taiwan visit is the question of - “what’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen while you were in Taiwan?”.
I’ll have to be honest with you, I don’t like questions like that, questions that sound like “so what was your favorite place?” “what was [...]
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