History & geography &

economic situations
Logo & flag & anthem
Ethnic groups & Language
Traditional costumes, foods,
festivals; folk songs & some
most famous people
Religions
Individualism or collectivism?
Power distance?
Other cultural features
• Capital:Beijing (Beiking)
• Largest city :Shanghai
• Official languages :Chinese
• Chinese Government :Socialist state
• The People's Republic of China and Republic of China are
official names given for the two states currently claiming the
traditional area of China.
• In China, common names for China include "Zhonghua“
and "Zhongguo", while "Han" and "Tang" are common
names given for the Chinese ethnicity. Other names include
Huaxia, Shenzhou and Jiuzhou. "Mainland China" is used to
refer to areas under the jurisdiction by the People's Republic
of China usually excluding Hong Kong and Macau.
 At 9.6-million square kilometres, the
People's Republic of China is the world's
third or fourth largest country by area.

It is nearly 30 times as large as Viet Nam

(331.690 km² )
• Beijing
• Tianjin
• Shanghai
• Chongqing
• Advantages:
Over the last 25 years China’s economy has drastically
changed. They went from a centrally planned system that
relied heavily upon international trade, to a system that is
now more market oriented.
the world's second largest exporter and the
third largest importer of goods.
Rapid industrialization has reduced its poverty rate from 53%
in 1981 to 8% in 2001.
It now has the world's third largest nominal GDP at 30 trillion
yuan (US$4.4 trillion)
Disavantages:
• Today, about 10% of the Chinese population (down from
64% in 1978) live below the poverty line of US$1 per day (
• The urban-rural income gap is getting wider.
• China has 20 of the world's 30 most polluted cities
China's national flag was adopted in
September, 1949.
It was first flown in Tiananmen
Square on October 1, 1949 - the day
of the founding of the People's
Republic of China.
The rectangular flag has a red field
with five golden-yellow stars (each
with five points) in the upper left
corner. The star on the left is larger
than the other four.
The red color of the flag symbolizes
revolution. The large star symbolizes
the Communist Party (which rules
China) and the smaller stars
represent the people of China.
The emblem was
designed by Liang
Sicheng, a famous
architect
It was determined as
the National Emblem
September 20, 1950
It contains a representation of Tiananmen
Gate, the entrance gate of the Forbidden City
from the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in a red
circle.
The five stars represented the union of Chinese
people.They was considered as the union of
the five major ethnicities in China
The circle has a border that contains sheaves
of wheat reflecting the Maoist philosophy of an
agricultural revolution
At the center of the bottom portion of the
border is a cog-wheel that represents the
industrial workers.
• The words for the national anthem were
written by Tian Han, and the music was set
by Nie Er in 1935. Originally known as the
March of the Volunteers.
• In 1949 it was appropriately chosen to be
the national anthem of the People's
Republic of China.
• The song describes the wrath of the
Chinese people against imperialist
aggression and their determination to
protect their motherland against foreign,
invaders
 Ethnic Groups
China is composed of 56 ethnic groups

The Han people account for 92 percent of the population

and the other 55 make up the remaining 2%
 Language
Mandarin

Spoken Chinese Cantonese

other many dialects

 Language
Written Chinese
Involves ideograms
Language
 Language
Written Chinese
Involves ideograms

Chinese characters are over 3000 years old

2 forms : traditional & simplified
Language
Some religions in China
Confucianism
Taoism
Buddhism
Daoism
Ancestor worship
Christianity
Islam
Catholicism
Protestantism
Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism are one, a litang
style painting portraying three men laughing by a river
stream, 12th century, Song Dynasty.
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Pagoda
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TEAMWORK
At the core of these
transformations is the
extent to which Chinese
companies have
absorbed and adopted
Western management
principles and practices.
Since teamwork has
been
widely practiced and
found to be generally
effective in Western
companies, especially
U.S.
companies, many
Western companies hope
to use teamwork in
China.
 Indirect communication
• DON'T DISTURB ME - Beijing slang
Na er Liang Kuai, Na er Xie Zhe Qu
= Find a cool place where you go to rest

Meaning:
Not now, don't disturb me, this is
none of your business.
 Indirect communication
2. IDEA IS FULLY CLEAR - Proverb
Xiao Chun Ban Doufu, Yi Qing Er Bai
= Spring onion mixed with tofu, one is
green, one is white

Meaning:
Pretty clear, no problem with this! This
proverb was used by former Chinese
Premier Zhou Enlai. His other famous
saying was "When you are drinking the
water, don't forget who did the well".
 Indirect communication
3.DUCK: LOST BUT NOT GIVE UP -
Proverb
Zhu Shu De Ya Zi, Zui Hai Ying
= Cooked duck, soft meat but hard mouth

Meaning:
Somebody has lost the debate but still
defends hardly on his opinion. Knows himself
there is no hope, but to save his face, still
insists on.
 Obedience to parents
• Chinese have believed in,
inculcated, and even enforced
total obedience to one’s
parents, especially your
father
• Even after marriage, Chinese
children have long fallen
under the authority of their
father and mother
• Even today, they often feel
obligated to send home a
major portion of their salary,
even if their parents are not
yet retired or don’t need the
money
Respect
elderly
people
Role of teachers and students
VIETNAMESE CLASS
The workplace ???
Other cultural
features
Some dos & don'ts
China’s Icons
Other cultural
features
 Other cultural
features
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Army
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 Chinese traditional
costumes
• Hanfu, the traditional
Chinese costume of
Han people,
originated, developed,
and disappeared all
the way with the ups
and downs of China
• Hanfu has a history of
more than three
millennia, and is said
to have been worn by
the legendary Yellow
Emperor.
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Chinese traditional festivals
• Spring festival
• Lantern festival
• Qingming festival
• Dragon festival
• Double seventh festival
• Mid-autumn festival
• Double ninth festival
• Winter solstice festival
 Spring festival
• The Spring Festival
falls on the 1st day of
the 1st lunar month.
It originated in the
Shang Dynasty (1600
BC- 1100 BC) from
the people's sacrifice
to gods and ancestors
at the end of an old
year and the
beginning of a new
one.
• Laba porridge is also called babao
(Eight Treasures) porridge for its high
nutritional value.
• The porridge is not only beneficial to
health but is a rite of blessing that
signals the prolusion of the Spring
• People in northern China will eat
jiaozi, or "jiaozi" in sound means
"bidding farewell to the old and
ushering in the new".
• Southern Chinese eat niangao (New
Year cake made of glutinous rice
flour). It means "higher and higher,
one year after another."
 Lantern festival
• The Lantern Festival
falls on the 15th day of
the 1st lunar month. As
early as the Western
Han Dynasty (206 BC-
AD 25), it had become
a festival with great
significance.
• Yuanxiao means reunion. So people eat
them to denote union, harmony and
happiness for the family.
Qingming festival
• The Qingming
Festival falls on
April 4-6 each
year.
• Festival is not only
a seasonal point
to guide farm
work, it is more a
festival of
commemoration.
 Dragon boat festival
• The Dragon Boat Festival, the 5th day of the
5th lunar month, has had a history of more
than 2,000 years.
• Festival is in commemoration of Qu Yuan
(340-278 BC). He was minister of the State of
Chu and one of China's earliest poets.
• Zongzi is an essential food of the Dragon
Boat Festival. It is said that people ate
them in the Spring and Autumn Period
(770-476 BC).
 Double seventh festival
• On the 7th day of the 7th lunar
month, is a traditional festival full of
romance.
• Considered as the Valentine day of
China
 Mid-autumn festival
• The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the
15th day of the 8th lunar month.
 Doule ninth festival
• The 9th day of the
9th lunar month is
the traditional
Chongyang Festival,
or Double Ninth
Festival.
• The Double Ninth
Festival is also a time
when
chrysanthemum
blooms.
• People will eat Double Ninth Gao (or
Cake). They do so just to hope progress in
everything they are engaged in. There is
no fixed ways for the Double Ninth Cake,
but super cakes will have as many as
nine layers, looking like a tower.
 Chinese famous people
• Hu Jintao was born 21
December 1942.
• He is currently the
Paramount Leader of
the People's Republic
of China. Since his
ascendancy, Hu has
reinstated certain
controls on the
economy and has
been largely
conservative with
• Dalai Lama is the
spiritual and political
leader of the Tibetan
people according to
Tibetan Buddhism.
• He is famous for his
worldwide messages of
peace and non-violence
and for his skill in
weaving together East
and West.
• As one of the most
beloved visionary
spiritual leaders of our
age, millions of people
• Jackie Chan is an
actor, action
choreographer, film
director, producer,
martial artist,
entrepreneur,
singer and stunt
performer.
• Chan is one of the
best-known names
worldwide in the
areas of kung fu
and action films.
• Gong Li is an outstanding Chinese film
actress.
• She won the Best Actress Award at the
49th Venice International Film Festival,
becoming the first Chinese mainland
actress to win an international award.
• Charles Kao a pioneer in the use of
fiber optics in telecommunications.
He is called “the father of fiber
• Yao Ming is considered
to be one of the world’s
best basketball players.
• He is currently the
tallest player in the
NBA, at 2.29 m (7 ft 6
in). Yao Ming is one of
China's best-known
athletes and he has
been the richest
celebrity in China for
five straight years.
• Chen Yifei a well-
known Chinese painter,
fashion designer and
film director.
• He is remembered
nationwide as not only
an active artist-
entrepreneur but also
as a special witness to
the friendly relationship
between China and the
United States.
• Chen was born in
Changchun, China
in 1976 as the
daughter of an ice
hockey coach and
a table tennis
player.
• She was one of
the most
decorated figure
skaters of the
1990s winning
two Olympic
medals, four
Chinese traditional
music
• Instrumental
• Ethnic Han music
• Chinese opera
• Folk music
 Folk music
• Folk song has the longest history,
simplest structure, richest numbers, and
widest spreading musical genre among
traditional Chinese culture.
• The folk songs of Han people, which
accounts for above 90% of China
population, falls into nine categories
according to music genres as haozi (work
songs), shan'ge (mountain songs), tian'ge
(field songs), xiao diao (small tunes),
Wuge (dance songs), yu' ge (fisherman's
songs), ritual songs, children's songs,
vendor's cries.
• The different ethnic minorities in China all
have their own folk songs. Besides , love