| Description |
x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Animals -- Architecture -- Banquets -- Bargaining -- Beijing -- Body language -- Buddhism -- Canton (Guangzhou) -- Cars -- Chiang Kai-shek -- Children -- Chinese Communist Party -- Chongqing -- Colors -- Confucianism -- Corruption -- Cultural Revolution -- Dalai Lama -- Daoism -- Deng Xiaoping -- Dialects -- Dissidents -- Dynasties -- Education -- Ethnic minorities -- Face -- Family -- Farmers -- Feng shui -- Festivals -- Film -- Food -- Forbidden City -- Gang of Four -- Gay and lesbian culture -- Gifts -- Gong Li -- Government -- Great Leap Forward -- Great Wall -- Guanxi (connections) -- Guomindang (Kuomintang or KMT) -- Hand gestures -- History -- Hong Kong -- Hu Jintao -- Human rights -- |
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Inner Mongolia Autonomous region -- Interracial relationships -- Jiang Qing -- Jiang Zemin -- Kunming -- Li Peng -- Long March -- Lu Xun (Lu Hsün) -- Macau -- Maggie Cheung -- Mao Zedong -- Martial arts - - Medicine (traditional) -- Music -- Names -- Nanjing -- National holidays -- Novelists -- One child policy -- One country, two systems -- Peking Opera -- People's Liberation Army (PLA) -- Pinyin Spelling System -- Public displays of affection -- Qi -- Qingdao (Tsing-tao) -- Religion -- Respect for elders -- Shanghai -- Shenzhen Special Economic Zone -- Shopping -- Sino-Japanese War -- The Soong Sisters -- South China Sea -- Spring Festival -- Sun Yat-sen -- Tailors and clothing -- Taiwan -- Three Gorges Dam -- Tiananmen Square Pro-Democracy Movement -- Tibet -- Tipping -- Urumqi -- Visiting a home -- Wen Jiabao -- Xi'an -- Xingiang Uighur Autonomous Region -- Yuan -- Zhong Guo -- Ziyi Zhang -- Notes -- Index. |
| Subject |
China -- Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Chai, Winberg.
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| Added Title |
Everything you need to know to understand Chinese customs and culture |
| ISBN |
9780452288874 paperback |
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0452288878 paperback |
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