chinese culture

I wrote but didn’t post the rest of Chinese landlord series after Round 2 because it wasn’t that interesting until today. Rounds 3-5 below were written over the last few months. Round 5.5 happened today.
Chinese Landlords - Round five-and-a-half
After Round 5, the first thing we did was put the word out in our [...]
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Many believe it’s virtually impossible to “become Chinese” if you aren’t one already. This is frustrating for foreigners of other ethnicity who want to identify and for North Americans and Europeans with Chinese ethnicity who are unable to fully realize their roots. Thankfully, Canada has much lower standards (note: some mild language):
“Son! Tonight… we [...]
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Just saw a China-related Post Secret (I swear it’s not ours! ):

It says:
“I’m an American. I want to be a Chinese. I haven’t told my Chinese friends, but I feel they all know… …but I will never be Chinese enough”

我是美国人。
我想是中国人。
我没告诉我的中国朋友，
但是我觉得他们都知道…
…but I will never be Chinese enough.

Wǒ shì Měiguórén.
Wǒ xiǎng shì Zhōngguórén.
Wǒ méi [...]
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Damn, this guy is hilarious. After finding out about this guy, I couldn’t stop watching his show and rolling on the floor listening to his insights about Asians, Chinese folks and Chinese language.You gotta check those out:  Good stuff.Copyright © 2007 fiLi's world. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are NOT reading this [...]
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Most people who like tea are familiar with the famous British Earl Grey Tea, but few know about its Chinese origins.Yair Amir writes a cute column in the last page of the Jerusalem City Mouse city guide (Achbar Ha-ir) where he looks up answers to questions mailed to him by readers. Here’s a quick translation of [...]
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It is widely acknowledged that the Chinese culture has a somewhat different perception of how business is conducted. Guanxi, the Chinese social capital term, is the most widely discussed term to describe the Chinese business world, in both China and Taiwan. It is commonly used to emphasis the difference between Chinese and “western” business culture, and the difficulties [...]
 
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I thought newspapers here will be full of Chinese New Year world coverage, but after some quick browsing of the leading local websites it’s embarrassing to admit the fact that I’ve found absolutely nothing - the world’s biggest holiday goes unnoticed in this part of the world.
But still, the Chinese embassy held an official get-together yesterday [...]
 
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We keep hearing about the Chinese Zodiac - "February 2007 marks the beginning for the year of the Pig", "you were born on the year of the Horse", "do you know the 12 animals that make up the Chinese calendar?". Up till a month ago, I didn’t know much about the Chinese calendar. I knew there were [...]
 
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In a wonderful course titled “Modern Society in Urban China” with Mr. Dror Kochan we were asked to watch two movies out of a list given which deal with urban life in China and write a short review relating to the course’s material and the issues discussed. I thought the list was so good, that [...]
 
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The role of Confucianism in the Chinese society has gone through tremendous changes in the past century. After years of direct attacks against Confucianism by the Chinese Communists, Confucianism is on a comeback, and surprisingly enough it is now made mainstream by the Communist Party itself which is promoting Confucian studies and research in China [...]
 
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