Chinese Culture and Language

  • LOVE AND REN

    LOVE AND REN

    As Christmas draws near, for some of us it is a sigh of relief and for others a gasp of horror. Where has the year gone? Isn’t it scary. For me, it is neither a sigh nor a gasp. Instead I laugh. Otherwise I will cry. Christmas is a season of sadness for many. The…

  • JOY AND PAIN OF EATING

    JOY AND PAIN OF EATING

    So much of our life is centred on food. Do you realise that out of the 18 hours that a person is awake in an average day, s/he spends 6 hours around food: planning, shopping, preparing, cooking, eating and cleaning up. One third of a person’s day goes into filling up the body. One third…

  • GUANXI, NETWORKING AND CHANCE MEETINGS

    GUANXI, NETWORKING AND CHANCE MEETINGS

    It is said that the Chinese guanxi is responsible for ninety percent of business success in China and globally. I often tell the managers who attend our Asian business culture workshops that if they want to succeed in business, they should find an overseas Chinese who is willing to die for them. In other words,…

  • CHINESE DIASPORA

    CHINESE DIASPORA

    By Dr Moni Lai Storz I am writing this in Ipoh, my original hometown in Malaysia. Having left it over thirty years ago, I have come back to move my mother to the south – to Johor Baru, across the causeway from Singapore. This is a sad time for us, saying a final farewell to…