Hong Kong - Culture Smart! - Clare Vickers, Vickie Chan

Hong Kong - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Buch | Softcover
168 Seiten
2018 | Revised edition
Kuperard (Verlag)
978-1-85733-869-0 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on etiquette and communication will help you navigate unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas.
Visitors marvel at Hong Kong's breathtaking location, its amazing architecture, its exciting shopping, and its fine dining. And yet it is a land of opposites of order juxtaposed with chaos, of ancient etiquette and seemingly abrupt manners, a place where rich and poor live in close proximity. Culturally, Hong Kong is rooted in the traditions of China, but there is more than a patina of Westernization. And despite stiff competition, it remains the principal international financial center in China. Hong Kong has more holidays than anywhere in the world, and most are celebrated in the streets or parks. Culture Smart! Hong Kong introduces the reader to this vibrant, multifaceted society. It provides helpful advice and cultural insights on business practice and social etiquette.

Vickie Chan is a Hong Kong-based writer, illustrator/ artist, and creative director who was educated and grew up in the United Kingdom. After a lifetime of traveling between Westand East, she settled in Hong Kong in 2006. Since then she has written for the South China Morning Post, China Daily, Gafencu magazine, and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, among others. Her main focuses are on art and design, education, culture, lifestyle, travel, and digital. Clare Vickers is an English writer who lived in Hong Kong for eighteen years, from 1979 to 1997. Her husband was a member of the Hong Kong Government, and collaborated with her on the history and government chapters of this book as well as other historical books and articles on Hong Kong. She has a degree in modern languages, and has written several dictionaries and textbooks for Hong Kong schools, had a column in the educational section of the South China Morning Post, and is the author of Escape, a Story of Wartime Hong Kong, written for Hong Kong teenagers. She last worked in the territory in 2004.

Brief History Politics - Economic Life Traditions - Friendships & Family Relationships Bureaucracy Religion Humour - Local Holidays Taboos Invitations Gifts Dress - Business etiquette - Punctuality & Appointments - Team working Communication Negotiating - Women in Society Tips - Eating Out - Traditional Food - Dos and Don t - Making Friends

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Culture Smart!
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 110 x 169 mm
Themenwelt Reiseführer Asien China
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-85733-869-3 / 1857338693
ISBN-13 978-1-85733-869-0 / 9781857338690
Zustand Neuware
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