Global Cultural Analysis: China

I am a Chinese. Most Chinese they are shy in the beginning. I think because the culture. When someone talk I will listen and look at their eyes. Because I want to respect and make them know that I am listening. But I am afraid eye contact other time for example we are not talking and silent. I feel wired and awkward.

The origins of tea are rooted in China (Food Timeline). According to legend, the beneficial properties of tea were first discovered by the Emperor Shen Nung in the year 2737 B.C. He drank only boiled water for hygienic purposes, and one day while he drank a breeze rustled the branches of a tree and a few leaves fell into his cup. Creating the first cup of tea. It is challenging to know whether or not the emperor was real or just a part of the spiritual and cultural development of ancient China. China was not unified as an empire until the third century, so it is unlikely emperors existed back then. One thing that is known is that tea was popular in China thousands of years ago. The first written reference of tea is in the third century B.C. A famous surgeon recommended the beverage to patients to increase concentration and alertness. Tea was first written as “tu” in ancient texts. This caused a good deal of confusion because the same Chinese character was used for both tea and Chinese sow thistles. Between 206 B.C. and A.D. 220 a Han Dynasty emperor ruled that when referring to tea, the characters should be pronounced as “cha”. From here on, tracing tea’s history became easier because tea acquired its own individual character (Food Timeline).

The Cultural Revolution had a massive impact on China from 1965 to 1968. The Cultural Revolution is the name given to Mao’s attempt to reassert his beliefs in China. Mao had not been a very self-motivated leader from the late 1950’s on, and feared others in the party might be taking on a leading role that weakened his power within the party and the country. Basically, the Cultural Revolution was a failed attempt by Mao to re-impose his authority on the party and therefore, the country as well. Not only did the Cultural Revolution have a massive impact on China, but many other countries as well. Having a huge tragedy like the CR in history, we have to face and learn from it to avoid an event like this from repeating itself in the future.

"A revolution is not a dinner party or writing an essay or painting a picture or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous"- Mao said in 1927 to a youth activist

The chinese writing was a complex language made up of multiple dialects.One example of a chinese dialect was called li shu or clerkly script(3).This writing was commonly used because it was easy to write and it was adaptable to different surfaces.Unlike western writing, chinese writing is written and read from top to bottom, unlike the western writing where we read left to right.To help

Cultural values are defined as ideas that are good, right, fair, and just. Children learn these values through different stages of development, from infancy to adulthood. Culture is a way of life, a learned behavior, passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to another and can vary greatly based on nationality, ethnicity, religious values, and beliefs. With increasing globalization, it is paramount that cross-cultural values are understood by educators, healthcare providers, and parents to better understand and address the needs and desires of the next generation.

The people in China are rich in culture just like other Asian countries. Therefore, to be involve with Chinese people in China for business, undertsanding their values and culture are very important. The first important thing to understand about Chinese is their devotion to collectivism. Chinese is trained from very early to consider himself as a dependent segment of a group, which is also called totalitarianism. It is helpful to think of the notion of family in China as a template applied to many networks of relationships that hold the society together. In the Chinese business context, the notion of family is about more than the emotional support and ties of a nuclear family. Family members, for

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, despite the great achievements, China has taken a lot of detours because of the great leap forward and the cultural revolution. The great leap forward to China in the economy, including the people's life safety, pay a heavy price, the "cultural revolution" brought disaster ， a lot of cultural relics have been damaged, our country's political situation lead to the cultural revolution in the late of tragedy.

Cultural Revolution, refers to a political movement that leads by Mao Zedong during May 1966 to October 1976. The original intention for Cultural Revolution is to prevent the restoration of capitalism. Mao want to clean the force who block the development. However, because of the failure leadership, this movement goes to a wrong way and become out of control. This ten years revolution seriously impact Chinese economic and development, it gives Communist Party and its people a big damage: school closed, factories shut down; students recruit for the “Red Guard”, they took to the streets to against democracy; millions of people involved into this revolution. It is a painful memories to Chinese. Today, some people prefer to call this revolution “Civil War”. Its influence until now. It is a war between Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi. Their struggle for power makes Chinese culture remains stagnant and fell far behind the world, and even go backwards.

The United States and China boast the two largest economies in the world but, despite this fact, these two countries have very little in common. At first glance, this may seem very obvious to most people but, what exactly is it that makes these two countries so different? How is it that such different perspectives and approaches can both lead to great success? Hofstede’s six dimensions of culture are an attempt to answer these questions and more. Dr. Geert Hofstede, studied employees of the computer firm IBM in over fifty different countries. When he examined his findings he found “clear patterns of similarity and difference along the four dimensions” (Manktelow, Jackson Edwards, Eyre, Cook and Khan, n.d.). The fact that he focused his research on solely IBM employees allowed him to eliminate company culture as a differentiating factor and “attribute those patterns to national and social differences” (n.d.). He used his findings to originally identify four dimensions, later expanded to six, that could “distinguish one culture from another” (n.d.). The six dimensions all on a scale from 0 to 100 are:

important characteristic in the overall makeup of the culture. Status is a key element in the success of a person in the region.

The verbal languages spread across China is one of diversity, the dialectal variances between areas within China is amazing. The history surrounding the spoken languages in China is also rather remarkable. “When a republic was declared in 1912, there was no common spoken language in China. Yes. Imperial officials had communicated in tongue used by the elites in Beijing. But the rest of the vast country was linguistically fractured…The lack of a common tongue has always seemed to threaten the daunting

The rapid demographics, rising income that leads to increased consumer spending and the increased business environment has helped to make the Chinese market attractive to investors. Despite, the incredible opportunities that the Chinese market has to offer, breaking into the market successfully for some investors it is a hard task to get through the barriers and be successful. Understanding the cultural traits in Chinese is fundamental to the success of any business. However, it is not known to what extent the Chinese cultural characteristics give the competitive advantage to an organization. This paper aims to discuss guanxi and to what degree is it a source of competitive advantage.

In a world as overwhelming with differences, individuals are molded by many factors, and culture is one that follows up on each person. Diverse societies instruct different values, and what may be well mannered in the U.S. could exceptionally offend in China. As people from different cultural groups, individuals can misjudge each other; therefore, the U.S. and China can learn to collaborate across cultural lines as individuals and as a society. Becoming aware of cultural differences can enable both countries to deal with each other more

Based upon the comparative analysis of national cultures between UK and China, what should B&Q have considered with regard to their HRM in China operations, when they expanded their businesses to China? (30 marks)