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CONTENTS
Chinese Thinking: the Five Core Elements
"Study the past if you want to define the future"
Origin: Confucius (551 - 479 BC): Analects
Contemporary China
"Crossing the river by feeling for the stones"
Quote: DENG Xiaoping
On Chinese Leadership
"The beam that sticks out is the one that was rotten first"
Origin: anonymous
Work Ethics
"The more you do, the more likely you will make mistakes"
Origin: LIU An, Han Dynasty
Communication the Chinese way
"(The Chinese) only tell people one third of what is on their mind"
Origin: ZHOU Xitao, Qing Dynasty
Relationships, Contacts and Finding the Right Partner
"Sharing the same bed but having different dreams"
Origin: CHEN Liang, Song Dynasty
Dealing with Conflicts
"Make the big things small and small things go away"
Origin: anonymous
How Small Things are Big and Big Things Small
"One leaf can block your view of the Tai Mountain"
Origin: Heguanzi – Tianze, by HE Guanzi, Warring States
Localization and Intellectual Property
"Let the past serve the present and foreign things serve China"
Origin: MAO Zedong
Conclusion
"Finding “harmony of time, place and people"
Origin: Art of War, by SUN Bin, Warring States |