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Turning Bricks Into Jade: Critical Incidents for Mutual Understanding Among Chin
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- Nicholas Brealey
- UPC
- 884728456062
- MPN
- 1877864811
- Model No
- 1877864811
- Country of Origin
- USA, United States
- Net Quantity/Number of Units
- 1
- Dimensions (LxWxH) - Cms
- 15.6X1.6X23.2
- ISBN-10
- 1877864811
- ISBN-13
- 9781877864810
- No. of Pages
- 246
- Item Length
- 15.6
- Type
- Books
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Turning Bricks Into Jade: Critical Incidents for Mutual Understanding Among Chinese and Americans
- Item Height
- 226mm
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Item Width
- 150mm
- Item Weight
- 340g
- Number of Pages
- 246 Pages
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The Chinese are fond of using four-character phrases, known as cheng yu, to improve their writing style. The Chinese characters on the cover spell out one such idiom: pao zhuan yin yu. Translated literally, this would be throw bricks attract jade. It can also express the idea of throwing out something of little value to induce a potential business partner to offer something more valuable. The authors of Turning Bricks into Jade, a more idiomatic rendering of pao zhuan yin yu, like to think of each critical incident in this collection as a brick, which, when combined with similar bricks, good sense and effort, can be used to construct relationships more valuable even than jade. A critical incident is a story about cross-cultural conflict or misunderstanding. Many of the forty-one incidents are based on actual events that involved one or more of the authors or their acquaintances. Some are a composite of several authors' experiences. You choose one of four or five possible alternatives that explain the misunderstanding. Following each incident is a discussion of possible solutions, based on the authors' experiences and grounded in current research. Misunderstandings between Chinese and American interactants are complicated; there is almost never just one thing going on. One result of this complexity is that many of the incidents have more than one
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John Murray Press
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Book Title
Turning Bricks Into Jade: Critical Incidents for Mutual Understanding Among Chinese and Americans
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Number of Pages
246 Pages
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226mm
Item Width
150mm
Item Weight
340g
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