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中国酒桌社交的江湖式诚信
凤凰网今天转载了一篇选自《中国青年报》的署名文章：禾刀：看中国酒桌社交的江湖式诚信。文章对现流行的“酒桌文化”做了一番分析，探讨了社会诚信危机与“酒”之联系。转载于此共享。 如今，越来越多的外国人了解了中国从北到南，从商场到官场的“酒桌社交”，甚至明白了汉语语境下“关系”一词的含义。但他们除了依旧不能适应中国的 酒桌文化外，还认为这背后隐藏着制度、体制问题。英国《金融时报》形容说，在中国，“关系”是一个迷宫般的网络，外人很难窥得其中的奥秘，维护这个迷宫需 要昂贵的成本，而酒是其中一项。... 更多内容 Read More »
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How U.S. Students Describe China
On September 1st, a group of 12 American talented high school students were invited to a CCTV program. At the end of the program they were invited to briefly express their impressions on the country after the 15-day visit to China. All the students are U.S. President Award winners (the program did not tell us exactly which award that is, and it is mostly likely to be the U.S President’s Award for Educational Excellence). It is inspiring to see how these young America... 更多内容 Read More »
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二十一世纪的世界公民是“文化混血”
7月30日，《凤凰网》以《一个法国人的中国观察》为题转引了一位在华法国人关于“世界公民”观点的博客文章。这位名叫何诺的作者，在他题为《我们是谁?》的文章中提出他关于“我们”、“你们”的理解，以及一个在中国的老外所体会的“内外观”。他认为： 其实，我们人类基本都有两个身份。 第一个身份来自大自然，我们首先都是人，属于共同脱氧核糖核酸的种类，可以互相交配。 第二个身份来自文化和社会，我们都是他国的外国，外地人。 这个第二个身份主动，又被动。国旗，国歌，运动比赛，爱国主义的目标都是要让一堆人感... 更多内容 Read More »
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Sexy Mandarin
Found this in one of the tweets on Weibo, a twitter-like service provided by Sina, entitled Sexy Mandarin. The tweet says it is originally from Youtube. But the link actually takes to Youku, a Youtube-like service in China. The program is actually from the New Concept Mandarin. As the Chinese language is getting popular worldwide, we would expect more interesting Chinese language learning programs getting into existence. Have a look at the trailer of this 'unconventional' language program.
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余秋雨谈中国文化特点
余秋雨此前在国家汉办的一个专题讨论会上谈论中国文化时，认为： 中华文明博大精深，绵延5000年，一直延续至21世纪的今天，作为世界四大文明中唯一没有中断的文明，其生命根基源于中华文化的三大特点即三“道”，一是人格模式上的君子之道，二是思维模式上的中庸之道，三是行为模式上的礼仪之道。同时，他还用三个“缺少”辩证地分析了中华文化自身存在的一些不足，如缺少公共意识、缺少实证意识和缺少法制意识。
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A Sculpture of Confucius
A 9.5-meter bronze sculpture of Confucius was erected in front of the China National Museum on the east side of the Tian’anmen Square, facing the Tian’anmen Rostrum, marking the revival of popularity of this ancient philosopher in recent years.
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Guanxi：中国改变世界？
那天我在英文商业书的新书架上，注意到一本书的书名特别奇怪，叫做《Guanxi》，打开一翻，原来里头全是教外国人在中国做买卖的实用知识。从我这个中国人的角度，这本书的内容也可说得上是相当全面了，由各省的环境物产一直谈到中国人的心理学，几乎所有刚刚抵达中国这片土地的老外所需要知道的事情，它全都粗略囊括进去了。问题是它为什么要用“关系”的英文音译来做书名呢？莫非它的作者认定“关系”才是和中国人打交道的终极诀窍？放下这本书，我再四处看看，赫然发现同类的书还有不少，并且不约而同地强调了“关系”的重要。
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