...Amy Tan’s novel Joy Luck Club, illustrate the life of four Chinese mothers and daughters and also the conflict between Chinese and American culture. Even if they all are Chinese, the daughters are born and raised in America, they don’t have the same miserable, desperate and hard life as there mother had back in China. The point of view of the mothers and daughters is very different in the story. All the daughters think about if their Chinese culture might have created problems for them, neither of the daughters can deny their mother nor their culture, but they all do have some issues about their mother attitude and ambition. For example Jing-Mei she was forced to play piano, “my mother believed you could be anything you want in America” (p.132: Two Kinds) and show the talent and the concern that she didn’t had, and also she was always compared with Waverley’s success. Even if Waverley was successful in chess game she also had problems with her mothers affected conduct, "Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess.” ( p.99: Rules of the Game). Of course Jing-Mei and Waverly are not the only one to suffer their mothers ambition for their future but they are the one whom mothers were competing in a secret and discreet way. This shows the Chinese personality mothers. Beside these two cases the other personalities that Chinese mothers have are that they don’t want their daughter to marry an American man because they...
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...Establishing a Chinese Kung Fu Club in Australia Strategic Issues Report Executive summary Chinese Kung Fu School, as a based organization for spreading the traditional Chinese culture and improving the public health, has been established for a long time. Recently a Chinese Kung Fu club is planned to open in Australia in order to expand overseas market. However, the investment may cause a number of potential problems which result in cross-culture issues. The report will explore the problems and make recommendations on how to successfully establish the Kung Fu club in Australia. Issues involve various national cultural differences between China and Australia, which include the attitude to Kung Fu, the rules of Kung Fu and the length of the course. Recommendations are made with respect to each of these categories. * Both theory and practice courses should be combined. * A library bar should be established for members. * The brochure should be published which includes the rules of Kung Fu. * Some activities should be held to create active atmosphere. * Mandarin language lessons need to be opened. * Difference length of courses may be suit for degree of members. * Audio-visual materials should be sold to ensure the persistent practice. Background to the project Kung Fu, as a kind of Chinese martial arts, is an important part of traditional Chinese culture. With the development of history, Kung Fu has become a large system which contains various...
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...OFWESTERN SPORTS 1 The Impact of Western Sports to Chinese Traditional Sports Lyon (Yanqing, Huang) Northeastern University THE IMPACT OFWESTERN SPORTS 2 Abstract With the advent of the globalization era, the conflict in different cultural exchange becomes prominent, especially the difference between Chinese and western sports culture. The difference is largely due to the different historical and cultural background. Each of them has made a sense to the development of its own society and influenced our understanding of sports and main sport activities in the wide world. What's more, because of the impact western sport, Chinese traditional sport has changed a lot compared with last century. THE IMPACT OFWESTERN SPORTS 3 The General With the advent of the globalization era, the conflict in different cultural exchange becomes prominent, especially the difference between Chinese and western sports culture. The difference is largely due to the different historical and cultural background. Each of them has made a sense to the development of its own society and influenced our understanding of sports and main sport activities in the wide world. What's more, because of the impact western sport, Chinese traditional sport has changed a lot compared with last century. Many sports in China are...
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...Research National Cultures: a comparison of Chinese and Australia national cultures Introduction Nowadays, people are facing increasingly international trade and they also work within a cross-culture environment. Even a pure domestic company need to face the competitor from worldwide level. It is important for a company to use the national culture efficient. International companies develop management and other practices in accordance with national culture they are operating in (Kogut, Singh, 1988). The effect which caused by the national culture on people's values and behaviours is the essential part of the multinational corporations' success within the global competition. With a good use of national culture, the company can have a better and deeper understanding of the local circumstances which is a critical ability for a managers who want to enter into the international markets (Esterby-Smith,1997). This report will compare three core cultural dimensions between Chinese and Australia national cultures. It will focus on how the national culture influence the corporations in the two country and the difference between the two cultures. one two three four seven six five chart talk The second part of this report will introduce the concept of culture which include the typically aspect of culture, values and behaviours. It will also discuss the theoretical frameworks of national cultures which can be used to analysed the difference between China and Australia. The main body of this...
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...Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior Non-fiction analysis How can you give your children the best upbringing as possible? Is it by being strict and fill their lives with rules? Or is it better to give them the opportunity to decide for themselves? Amy Chua would definitely choose the first option and in her article, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” which is written in January 2011, we hear a lot about her grounds for why she thinks the first option is the right one. Amy Chua who writes the article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” is an approved lawyer and works as a professor at Yale Law School in USA. Already from that information we can guess that she is very well educated. She mentions that she knows that there are a lot of people wondering what it is like inside a Chinese family who has all these limits and strict rules. Amy Chua knows what it is like, because she is raised by that way herself and she has done it towards her two daughters, Sophia and Louise, as well. Amy has established the ground rules, and defined some things Sophia and Louise were never allowed to do. Already in the beginning of the article Amy Chua engages the reader with the list she revalue with all these things that her daughters were never allowed to do. As readers we quickly make a picture of this way of raising children seems harsh and maybe even brutal. There are so many normal things on the list that almost every child gets to do where Chinese children are missing out. Amy Chua...
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...Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents ii 1 What are the business problem(s) involved in the case? 1 2 What are the ethical issues raised by the case? 2 2.1 Formalist Analysis 2 2.2 Utilitarian perspective 3 2.3 Virtue ethics perspective 4 2.4 Descriptive ethics framework 5 3 What would Alex Brown do? 6 4 Conclusion 7 Appendix 1: Scoring two courses of action based on Formalist Perspective 8 Appendix 2: Scoring two courses of action based on Utilitarian Perspective 9 What are the business problem(s) involved in the case? Is Chinese subsidiary of Pharmacyl Inc., successful? No. Evidences are that they (1) have not achieved outstanding results in this important market, (2) have not become market leader and overtaken local competitors yet, and (3) have not created solid base to expand to other parts of the country. Why have they not been successful yet? Because they were having ineffective leadership and management practices. Evidences are that manager (1) does not know what their subordinates were doing, and (2) could not motivate subordinates to obtain good results. Why have they had ineffective leadership and management practices? Because they got serious problem with communication throughout company. Evidences are that (1) employees are struggle to tell the truth of what they think is the real root cause of the issue they are facing to their line manager, (2) manager could not communicate easily and frankly with employees...
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...World Trade Organization (WTO) in November 2001 marked one of the most important steps of the Chinese government towards deepening the integration of the Chinese economy into the world economy and therewith going more deeply into the globalization. This development, however, does not mean that the issue of globalization is not controversial in China. Indeed, the fifteen years since 1986 in which China actually underwent a tremendous negotiation process with the WTO, as well as with its members, have been accompanied by an intense domestic debate about the sense and the meaning of globalization. Even through today, the Chinese membership in the WTO is certainly not inevitable; the globalization debate in China continues, reflecting the fact that the Chinese feel strongly challenged by globalization and are trying to search for ways to deal effectively with it. This paper regards it as its main task to examine systematically the Chinese reactions to globalization. To achieve this goal, the analysis will focus on three questions. Firstly, it will find out the general understanding of globalization by the Chinese elite. The term “general understanding” means in this sense the understanding which most Chinese scholars and politicians seem to share regardless of whether he or she is “pro-globalization” or “anti-globalization”. Secondly, it will try to identify the main strains of the Chinese debate on globalization. In doing so, the substantial arguments of the different groups will...
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...Topic: Popular Cultural in HongKong(Film) Un Cheuk Lam 4C35 The Cinema of Hong Kong has consider as the pioneer of Chinese language movie. Hong Kong was the third largest motion picture industry in the world (after Hollywood and India cinema) and the second largest exporter. Hong Kong film has retained much of its distinctive identity and continues to play a prominent part on the world cinema stage. In the West, Hong Kong's vigorous pop cinema (especially Hong Kong action cinema) has long had a strong cult following, which is now arguably a part of the cultural mainstream, widely available and imitated. Especially between the 1970's - 1990's, most of movie fans will be familiar with names like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan from Hong Kong cinema. The reason why these movie star become so popular because they produce a lot of martial art film during that time. And then these martial art film brought to the western audiences. In fact, A lot of english speaking country or european start to aware of Asian movie in that time. Back to Hong Kong cinema, The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the major movie industry in the Chinese language speaking cinema. Before 1997, Hong Kong was a colony of Britain and therefore Hong Kong had a greater freedom on economic and political than mainland China. Even in film industry, The censorship system in Mainland China have a very strict rule. " Hong Kong filmmakers either steered away from criticzing China or did so in oblique ways ". Therefore, the Hong Kong...
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...disappointed that her daughter doesn't have a sense of the Chinese cultural and background. She got what she wanted, a perfect American child, but it became something she didn't actually want. Jing-mei “But everybody just nods to approve the minutes. Even my father's head bobs up and down routinely. And it seems to me my mother's life has been shelved for new business” (17). In America we dwell on the loss of a loved one. We take time to remember and reflect on their life. The Chinese cultural seems to handle death in a way where they try to just move on. They forget rather than grieve. Rules of the Game Waverly Jong and Lindo Jong “My mother graciously thanked the unknown benefactor sayin, “Too good. Cost too much.” At which point, an old lady with fine white, wispy hair nodded toward our family and said with a whistling whisper, “Merry, merry Christmas.” …. [Mom talking] “She not want it. We not want it (93-94). In America, go by the saying “One man's trash is another man's treasure” but Lindo Jong believes that if one person does not want it then they don't want it either. It shows that there is a standard that Chinese people may feel the need to uphold by not wanting someone else's unwanted items. Rules of the Game Wavered Jong “I left the table with half-finished bowls and nobody complained” (101). It is very common in America to not finish our plates of food, but it seems that in the Chinese culture, that is something that is frowned upon. Half...
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...geographic distance, but also distance from different cultures, perceptions, institutions and rules. Geographic distance brings the most obvious impact. Foreign firms must undertake additional costs caused by transportation and communication. They are all about money and it’s tangible. But as the development of information and communication technology and globalization, this cost will keep reducing. Different cultures may increase the difficulty of understanding the practices in host countries. And also, it may increase the costs of internal governance. For example, Haier in America, at the beginning it was really in trouble about the reward system. In China, if an employee does a bad job, supervisor can criticize him/her in a public meeting, but in America, supervisors are not going to do this because you emphasize human rights so much. Then Haier changed its way. Instead, it began to praise ones who did good jobs. Another question comes. This made someone else to be jealous. Finally, it changed rewards to money. It took a long time to make it right. So this kind of things is always not to be educated, but to practice by yourself because we hold different philosophy. There are numerous differences in formal and informal institutions governing the rules of the game in different countries. While local firms are already well versed in these rules, foreign firms have to invest resources to learn such rules. Some of these rules are in favor of local firms. Like China, Jack Ma...
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...developing effective competitive advantage in China. I don't agree with this. It's possible for leader to be this kind of people, and the development of organization requires it. Personality is affected by heredity, environment, and situation. And the personality of a leader is determined by environment and situation. Environment plays an important role in shaping personality. And personality also changes with situation. The organization’s environment and situation require leaders to be trusting and astute. It also reflects emotional intelligence (EI). EI includes self-awareness (know how you feel), self-management (manage your emotions and impulses), self-motivation (can motivate yourself and persist), empathy (sense and understand what others feel), and social skill (can handle the emotions of others). Good leader should have high EI scores, which leads to high performance. Emotional quotient (EQ) is said to be a measure of a person’s emotional intelligence. Excellent leader should manage (show or hide) his emotion well through the EQ. To be open or to conceal, it depends. In which situation should a leader be open? For example, in culture knowledge management, leader should be open. It’s better for organization when employees all know and understand the organization’s culture. They will know what they can do is compatible with the organization’s culture, if it is managed well by leader. Then do it. It’s good for the development of an organization. In another case...
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...Observation Throughout human history, the rules and orders are established by structured hierarchy. Therefore, a tradition of showing respect to the authority is formed. Interestingly, the ways people show respect varies due to different cultural backgrounds. Some manners of one culture might not be acknowledged or even considered rude by people from another culture. The phenomena of showing respect to people with higher power can be widely observed in various competitions where competitors must first merit required rituals before performing their tasks in front of the judges. I decided to observe the participants of Richmond Music Festival in 2014. This group consists of Caucasians, Chinese born in Canada [CBC] and newcomers from China. By observing this group, I am able to conduct a cross-culture study that might reveal the relationship between cultures and rules regarding manners. The Caucasians can be easily recognized by their white skin color. The CBCs can be easily distinguished from new immigrants from China in the language they used in conversation with parents and their accent. The conversations between CBCs and their parents were in English; while the new comers communicated with the parents in Chinese (either Mandarin or Cantonese). When the CBCs said their names aloud at the reception desk, they didn’t have any accent. In comparison, those new comers spoke English in Chinese Intonation. In addition to their difference in culture backgrounds, their financial backgrounds...
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...This article was downloaded by: [University of Macau Library] On: 09 October 2014, At: 18:24 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Chinese Journal of Communication Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcjc20 “Platonic relationships” in China's online social milieu: a lubricant for banal everyday life? Yann-Ling Chin a a Arts, Humanities and Education, Nottingham Trent University , UK Published online: 14 Nov 2011. To cite this article: Yann-Ling Chin (2011) “Platonic relationships” in China's online social milieu: a lubricant for banal everyday life?, Chinese Journal of Communication, 4:4, 400-416, DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2011.616286 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2011.616286 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied...
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...Chinese Censorship is a Contradicting Problem In the contemporary society, with internet expansion the world is extending to be an Information Age. Due to the expansion, a large amount of sensitive information that governments disagree with is widely and rapidly spread. In order to control the dramatic increase of this sensitive information censorship occurs. According to a report, censorship is defined as “…one of the tools used by governments to filter out unwanted information and to prevent the spread through the World Wide Web”. (Antonio Lupetti) In many countries around the world, government censors restrict access to certain kinds of material for their citizens such as movies with sexual content, news with political ideas, and violent video games. Based on the latest data, censorship is a phenomenon of staggering proportions that affects over 25% of the global population. China, with a population of over 1.3 billion people and 360 million active users of the Internet is by far the nation in which the censors’ activity affects the highest number of citizens (China). It is well known among the Chinese that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are all blocked in China because there is too much sensitive information on them. It is clear that since censorship has begun in China, it has hindered China from developing, updating information and limited the freedom of speech. Censorship has been used in China for centuries. According to the Baidu Encyclopedia which is a very popular...
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...| 2015 | | [Analyzing Organization] | | Contents Introduction: 2 What is Organizational Behavior? 3 Paradigms 3 Functionalist paradigm 4 Interpretive paradigm 4 Radical humanist paradigm 4 Methodology of data gathering 5 Background information about the organization: 5 Analyzing data with literature review 6 Definition of Culture and Culture in McDonald 6 McDonald's development in China 7 Relating Schein’s model with McDonald 8 Levels of culture: 8 Artefacts: 8 Values: 9 Basic assumptions: 10 Conclusion: 10 References: 12 Introduction: An organization or company can be defined as the developed social elements by the humans in order to serve some kind of purpose. Generally the organization is consisting of an individual or a group of people purposely systemized or organized to achieve a common and an overall goal or set of goals. Usually organizations range in size from one person to thousands. Almost every organization has a structure of management that regulates relationships between the members and different activities and authority , responsibilities and assigning role to carry out different tasks within and outside of organization. An Organization is social arrangements for achieving controlled performance in pursuit of collective goals (According to Buchanan & Huczynski (1997). There are many vital aspects to keep in consideration about the goal of the business organization. These features are categorical (recognized...
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