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Check your Chinese Interpreter

China Business Success Stories — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:32:58 +0000

“Entrepreneurs are keen to communicate with English speaking Chinese directly without an interpreter, or even venture into a few words of Mandarin. Which quite often goes wrong. A pity, because many problems can easily be avoided by calling in an experienced interpreter.” Easier said than done?

Humorous play on Asian politeness

China Business Success Stories — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:08:53 +0000

In 2002 Brazilian soccer player Roberto Carlos starred in this Pepsi commercial. A humorous play on the politeness found throughout Asia (in this particular case Japan and Korea, the hosts of the World Cup).

Lost in Translation

China Business Success Stories — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:57:15 +0000

An episode of the Danwei TV series ‘Sexy Beijing’. What is your Chinese name?

What the f*&%? Chinese translations found in China

China Business Success Stories — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:59:38 +0000

Chinese translations found in China on signs all over the country. Some are Japanese, can you spot them?

Practise Chinese

China Business Success Stories — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:00:09 +0000

Do you want to impress your Chinese contacts? Watch this video and learn!

Exotic Chinese Food

China Business Success Stories — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:44:40 +0000

Or do you still prefer a burger and French fries…?

Happy Chinese New Year

China Business Success Stories — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:28:16 +0000

Tomorrow is the start of the Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival. This festival starts on the first day of the first lunar month (on the Chinese calendar) and it ends on the fifteenth day of this month. This period is traditionally full of celebrations, family visits, special foods and fireworks. It’s one of the more important Chinese festivals and everybody will take the time to celebrate, especially during the first three days of the festival.

This time is obviously not the best for arranging meetings and trying to make business deals. Also travelling within China is not recommended since many Chinese will go back to their hometown and every form of public transportation will be overloaded with families and bags full of presents and food. The best option is probably to stay where you are and try to see some of the local festivities such as fireworks and dragon dances. (more…)

Chinese supermarket concept

China Business Success Stories — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:24:44 +0000

Innovative and practical? Or completely useless? In Shenyang they figured it was worth finding out. Will it catch on?

Tricky Chinese Chopsticks

China Business Success Stories — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:07:28 +0000

Did you know that in China more than 45 billion pairs of wooden chopsticks are produced? This requires about 25 million trees. Yearly. That is why the Chinese government currently tries to promote non-disposable chopsticks in restaurants. Let’s hope China succeeds in this particular effort. For eating with chopsticks can be a lot of fun. Especially when you know how, as this instruction video demonstrates. By all means: do try this at home!

Chinese and Western Culture Comparison

China Business Success Stories — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:41:48 +0000

This Soloshow East meets West by Yang Liu, which was placed at ministry of foreign afairs in Germany, is poster art that compares German / Western culture with Chinese culture in a way that humorously captures some societal differences. Needless to say blue represents Western culture and red Chinese?

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