China - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Author: Kathy Flower, Indre Balcikonyte-Huang
Narrator: Charles Armstrong
English | 2021 | ASIN: B0858FKMMT | Duration: 03:43:40 | MP3@64 kbps | 102 MB
Author: Kathy Flower, Indre Balcikonyte-Huang
Narrator: Charles Armstrong
English | 2021 | ASIN: B0858FKMMT | Duration: 03:43:40 | MP3@64 kbps | 102 MB
For thousands of years, the Chinese believed that they had created a perfect social system based on Confucian values and tempered by the Mandate of Heaven. Dynasties came and went, but the essence of being Chinese remained essentially unchanged until the 20th century. Since then, change has taken place in Chinese society at an unprecedented speed: the country experienced the turmoil of civil war and revolution and then emerged on to the world stage as a global superpower.