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China’s successful commercial engagement with the United States through culture hinges on a core strategy: it is not about one-way cultural export. Instead, cultural understanding is embedded deep into business decision-making. In the U.S. market, genuine localization is deployed to earn trust and operational autonomy. Within China, cultural empathy sustains long-term partnerships. At the bilateral …
Sustaining Cultural Identity Amid Globalization and Modernization: China’s Logic and Practice Against the backdrop of intertwined globalization and modernization, sustaining cultural identity faces a dual challenge: avoiding the loss of self amid opening-up, while preventing stagnation through rigid conservatism. China’s core logic for upholding cultural identity rests on cultural subjectivity as its foundation. It advances …
The ways Chinese, South Korean, and Japanese cultures are represented in the United States differ markedly. Spearheaded by K-pop, South Korean culture is rapidly penetrating from subculture into mainstream popular culture while powerfully driving consumption. Drawing on its mature anime, food culture, and community traditions, Japanese culture has woven itself deep into the fabric of …
The label “leftover women” (shèngnǚ) carries discriminatory undertones. Yet the group it refers to — urban unmarried women with high educational attainment, high incomes, and financial independence — is quietly reshaping Chinese culture on multiple fronts. Far from being passively “left behind,” they are, through their choices and lived realities, challenging millennia-old marital norms, gendered …
China’s Stance on Western Culture: Selective Absorption and Spiritual Independence China has neither “totally rejected” Western culture nor “wholly embraced” it. The mainstream approach is selective learning and integration rooted in its own priorities: it draws extensively on Western experience in technology, economics, and scientific management, while retaining independent judgment in its political system, value …
I. What Is the Qipao? The qipao (also widely known as the cheongsam) is China’s most iconic traditional women’s garment. It originated in Shanghai in the early 20th century, blending features of the robes worn by Manchu banner people with Han Chinese clothing, gradually evolving into its modern form. Cut from a single piece of …
The U.S.–China trade war has exerted a marked impact on cultural exchange, yet this influence follows a paradoxical trajectory: official channels for cultural trade and exchange have contracted amid tariffs and political hostility, while grassroots cultural diffusion and reverse cultural exports have found more resilient avenues to break through in the digital age. Put differently, …
American culture does not possess a scriptural corpus institutionally equivalent to the Five Classics in terms of status, authority, and institutional standing. The Five Classics emerged from a long process of canonization in Chinese tradition, revered as authoritative texts guiding personal cultivation and state governance. They carry quasi-sacred authority and stand at the core of …
To grasp China’s cultural framework, one must avoid relying on static, oversimplified labels. A more reliable approach is first to establish several empirically grounded core dimensions, then recognize that these dimensions vary markedly across regions and generations within China. For official visitors, this means preparing for high-context communication and relationship-oriented interaction, while resisting the urge …
The year 1206 bears dual significance in Chinese cultural history. In the south, the Southern Song regime, under military pressure, sustained its tradition of civil governance, marked by advances in literature and Confucian institutions. In the north, Genghis Khan unified the Mongol tribes, launching the creation of a Mongolian script and the integration of Mongol …