international mobility – CHINa (1 DAY)

 

Getting used to the country

1. Understanding China
•    The influences of modern China
•    Continuity and dynamic of the political and economic system
•    Chinese “globality”
•    Does China influence the world or is it westernised?

2. Chinese values and behaviours
•    Chinese culture: Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism
          •    The "six Confucian basics” determining behaviours
          •    The influence of Taoism on the way the Chinese think
          •     When the Chinese borrow the virtue of pugnacity from Buddhism
•     Harmony, important to the Chinese culture: a question of Guanxi, Mianzi, Renqing, Bao and Keqi
 

Getting used to socialisation patterns

3. Chinese communication styles
•    The unsaid, the implicit, the “yes” and the “smile”, an unreadable “face”
•    Close and long-term relationships
•    Pragmatic, are the Chinese always interested?
•    “Ambiguity” and “nonsensical logic”
•    Analysing appearances.

4. Living and socialising  with the Chinese
•    Social strategy: hidden objectives and tactics of the “social game”
•    Going beyond formalism and polite attitudes
•    Courtesy, etiquette and errors not to commit
 

ADAPTING TO EVERYDAY LIFE