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MEI WENTI! INGA PROBLEM!
OM LIVET I DAGENS KINA
In a time when the world is focusing on China there is a growing interest for Sino related knowledge. What does contemporary China look like? How is business done and how do the cultural differences affect the relations between East and West?
To understand you need some knowledge about the several thousand year old platform that China rests upon. Which powers have been influencing the country’s development and how do they interact with the new times?
The author vividly depicts her life in the cities of Beijing and Shanghai, thereby in a natural and humorous way, touching upon various areas such as healthcare, education, work, business, economic development and exciting travels. This is a personal and real story about living in China, about what is happening in the country with the highest growth rate in the world and about what goes on in the Chinese mind.
To live in China during the 21st century is a mind-blowing experience. Ancient rituals exist side by side with new politics and progressive methods. The Confucian thinking is slowly giving in to a more individualistic society where Mammon is gaining on Mao with devastating speed. The tremendous changes of the last decades present the visitor with something completely different from only a few years back. China is once again becoming a mighty nation with the West knocking impatiently at its doors. The Chinese dragon has started out on a modern crusade, a tour that is prodigious, unpredictable and historic.
This book is for everyone that, regardless of reason, in a quick and easy way wishes to get a general view of China. The tempting, sometimes incomprehensible but always exciting China.