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Third Degree Graduate

In Chinese society, the great cultural importance put on education cannot be overstated. It is what most children have their lives based around; witness the many teenagers coming home on the metro late in the evening after cramming and...

Reverse Cultural Shock

“Welcome to Vancouver International Airport”, the pilot announced. I saw a ramshackle cluster of aging low-rise buildings which compared poorly with any of the train stations and airports I have visited in China. After the glitz...

Crazy Rich Chinese; @Children of the Yuan

Although they don’t know how to create wealth, they surely know how to show it off. The high profile, "Fuerdai" (富二代) or “Trust Fund Kids”, has become the most loathed group in this country, but that didn’t stop them...

Land of the 土u

As in most countries, in China there is a significant chunk of culture devoted to landowner hatred. Just as they look down upon their subjects, so in China the common people shall pour ridicule on their outlandish, pretentious ways....

Big Data… Big Money… Big Brother

2016 is set to be the year of big data. Given its implications and the population of China, this means very very big data. It also means different things for different people. China Daily is content...

When Team Building Ends up Meaning Kissing Rubbish Bins

While some may complain about being fed up with clichéd team-building activities; starting the day with a scavenger hunt, spending the afternoon in a boring keynote speaker session and heading home with cheap coffee mugs emblazoned with a company...

Building a Chinese Team

“Recover a top secret isotope from a crashed spacecraft and along the way set off an explosive while nobody is inside the indicated blast radius.” Such was the challenge laid down by “Now Get Out of That”, a BBC...
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