The Chinese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Chinese Culture (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Chinese Mind Offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Chinese culture
Full description- Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
- Published: 23 March 2009
- Format: Paperback 224 pages
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- Categories: Cultural Studies | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Asian History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780804840118 ISBN 10: 0804840113
- Sales rank: 169,156
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Excellent introduction, but don't quote him...
This book is great as an introduction to Chinese thinking. It's especially good as a STARTING point of topics for discussion with Chinese friends. I'm writing this review from a coffee shop in china, and many of the things he discusses are insightful and accurate, however there are a few drawbacks. Firstly the book is extremely American-centric, and often has the feel of a culture handbook for businessmen. Second, he seems to draw some biased conclusions from elements of chinas history (I'm not a Sinologist, but you can judge for yourself about Mao and his interest in womens rights). Thirdly, the "discussion topics" are usually insipid and frustratingly leading, although still worth reading (even if you don't discuss them). On the whole it's a concise and readable overview of the difference between essentially western thought (he annoyingly constantly says "American" thought) and Chinese thought, although my recommendation would be to use this as a list of juicy and interesting discussion points you can use when talking with ACTUAL Chinese people, and anyway, the latter is more fun! by James Hodson
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