Guanxi is one of the powerful forces in chinese culture‚ literally means “Relationship”. The concept of Guanxi has its roots from the Confucianism which came into existence since 5th BC and became the culture of china. In confucianism the relationship is given the importance in the family or in the workplace or in the social life. Guanxi express the relationship of one person to another or to one party to another. However‚ more importantly the term also express an obligation of one party to another
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November 2008‚ China reported an estimated 300‚000 victims‚ with six infants dying from kidney stones and other kidney damage. It’s one of biggest scandal in China. But just over a month‚ the most of Chinese people didn’t discuss it keenly for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Why the biggest scandal attracting attention of people in short term . Let’s explore it. Mass Communication plays an important role in our society its purpose is to inform the public about current and past events. Mass communication
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When Christopher Columbus first came to the Americas‚ his crew members were introduced to smoking by the indigenous people who gave them the dried leaves as a present. “Tobacco [can] be chewed‚ drunk as tea‚ inhaled as powder (snuff)‚ inserted as a liquid enema and consumed as jelly‚ but it was smoking‚ the burning of the herb to produce smoke‚ that quickly became part of a priestly healing ritual‚ both to diagnose and cure illness‚ as well as to drive out the evil spirits that had supposedly caused
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MERCEDES-BENZ CORPORATE STRATEGY IN EMERGING MARKETS Submitted for: BMA5013 Corporate Strategy‚ Prof. Sai Yayavaram Submitted by: Pia Rauch Akhil Singhania Ayush Trivedi Jaime Garriga Beloso Lüthje Brandt Submission date: 04/11/2011 MERCEDES-BENZ – CORPORATE STRATEGY IN EMERGING MARKETS TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8 GLOBAL HISTORY................................................................................................................. 1 MERCEDES-BENZ IN INDIA .............
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contaminated‚ we will be infected with several disease and even die. For instance‚ once I watch news in a website said that a group of students graduated from college in 1982.Thirty of them still stayed in Beijing while others chose to go abroad. Thirty years later‚ eight people who work and live in Beijing had cancers and finally die because of the contamination such as air pollution and water pollution. But people who live abroad still keep healthy. We can learn from the news that environment is close
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The life story of Genghis Khan fascinates because of the significant strides he made in life. Unlike his grandson who inherited power‚ he had to work hard to reach the position of power. While his rise to power was in itself a major achievement‚ his success to unite and organize a formidable force made up of Mongols‚ who were essentially nomads‚ is a reflection of his intellectual acuteness. Even though also acknowledging that his grandson‚ Kublai Khan‚ was also successful in conquering the parts
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Constantinople of the Ottoman Empire Constantinople was named after its founder: The Roman Emperor Constantine‚ and was also called “the Second Rome” (Haberman‚ 5). Up until 1453‚ Constantinople was in control of the Byzantine Empire which was founded shortly after Constantine founded the city. Constantinople is a city that was placed on the Bosporus‚ which divides Europe and Asia‚ and grants entry into the Black Sea from the Mediterranean (Haberman‚ 5). This allowed Constantinople to flourish
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the demands of a globalized world and to some extent the demands of their people. The events of 1989 are a prime example‚ following the bloody Tiananmen Square protests‚ which called for social and political reform; an informal agreement called the Beijing consensus was made
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Summary New Yorker Dan Mintz moved to China as a freelance film director with no contacts‚ no advertising experience. DMG had emerged as one of China’s fastest growing advertising agencies. Mintz attributes his success in part to what the Chinese call guanxi: Guanxi means relationship and through business setting it can be better understood as connection. Guanxi has its roots in the Confucian philosophy of valuing social hierarchy and reciprocal obligations. Confucian ideology has a 2‚000-year-old
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generation‚ who had still been learning of their letter when the Empire disappeared‚ was coming of age. Their experience of the politics of their elders was uninspiring. They were ready for new loyalties and new ideas. The centre of new thought was Beijing University. It was based on the Tong Wen Guan‚ which had been transformed into a university by the 1898 reformers; and it was only one of their reforms to survive. In 1916 the liberal scholar Cai Yuanpei had become its president. He encouraged debate
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